{"id":72,"date":"2008-09-21T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-09-21T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:03:50","slug":"a-full-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"A Full Driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had quite a few friends over last night.  We all came together to play Rock Band 2.  Anthony (Codex) brought Andrew (Trewr).  I had to pick up Tim, so I got a chance to use the GPS on my phone.  Renee was holding it and it worked like a charm.  It said &#8220;destination arrived&#8221; when we were exactly in front of his house.  I know that&#8217;s what it is supposed to do, but I am always surprised when things work that way.  Derek came over after work.<\/p>\n<p>We played Rock Band 2 almost the entire night.  There are so many songs to choose from.  We ended up trying to do every song that everyone had to do.  Everyone has a song some where in that game that they just have to do.  Derek has to do a Coheed and Cambria song.  Anthony had to do a Disturbed song.  I needed to do something from the early 90&#8217;s.  Jo doesn&#8217;t even play and he needed us to do &#8220;Girls on Film&#8221; by Duran Duran.<\/p>\n<p>It was some fun.  We had plenty to eat.  We had pizza, beer, and chips.  I ordered the pizza using Google 411, which is a free service where you call the number and you put in the zip code where you are and then you can ask for a specific business or you can get suggestions by saying something like &#8220;pizza&#8221;.  It&#8217;s pretty neat I think everyone should try it just for fun.  I know that there are new home phones that are coming out that actually have a button for the Google 411.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Renee has sung before, but for the most part she plays World of Warcraft while everyone else plays.\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0371.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0371.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"For the most part we end up in the backyard for smoke breaks and just a chance to hang out for a second and do nothing.\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0372.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0372.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"Jo is showing Anthony his new very tiny laptop.\" rel=\"lightbox[phone]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0374.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0374.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"Andrew got a chance to see the little laptop as well.  Everyone seems to really like it.  It's funny, because Leonard had just messaged me the other day talking about it and here I got a chance to play around with it.\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0379.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0379.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"Andrew got Dairy Queen and it looked good.\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0385.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0385.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"That's some beard Anthony is sporting.  There was a joke at some point in the evening when Andrew said he had a beard and looked homeless.  It's not really funny when I type it; you had to be there..\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0386.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0386.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"In all the other pictures I have Jo looked surprised.  I usually like to get pictures when people are talking or just enjoying themselves, but it's almost as though I have to let Jo know that he's getting his picture taken for him not to notice the camera and make a surprised face.\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0387.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0387.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"Most of the pictures I have of Tim are profile shots.  I was talking about it with someone and we were wondering if it's almost intentional that he always stands to my side whenever I'm holding a camera.\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0388.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0388.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"Derek and Tim were having a conversation about guitars and I thought it was pretty funny, because either Derek would point to a guitar on his shirt, or Tim would reference the guitar on his shirt.  That shirt turned out to be a great resource for their conversation.\" rel=\"lightbox[friends]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0389.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/IMG_0389.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had quite a few friends over last night. We all came together to play Rock Band 2. Anthony (Codex) brought Andrew (Trewr). I had to pick up Tim, so I got a chance to use the GPS on my phone. Renee was holding it and it worked like a charm. It said &#8220;destination arrived&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[250,17,49,78,119,123,145],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","tag-andrew","tag-anthony","tag-derek","tag-jo","tag-renee","tag-rock-band-2","tag-tim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}