{"id":21999,"date":"2011-03-20T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11511"},"modified":"2016-09-17T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:47:05","slug":"cold-and-rainy-eugene-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/cold-and-rainy-eugene-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold and Rainy Eugene Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke to dampness. I haven&#8217;t been able to run the dehumidifier in forever and look forward to entering a drier climate in the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nice day yesterday, being in such a great spot (I will be sharing pictures of it!). I spent a few hours at Starbucks in the morning, went home to work on some projects, and then treated myself to lunch at Chile&#8217;s. I discovered this restaurant chain back in <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=84\">Regina in &#8217;08<\/a> and have never had a bad meal the few times I&#8217;ve been able to eat at one. I made a note in my private journal from back then at that the $25, including tax and tip, that I spent on the &#8216;Margarita chicken with a bottomless glass of strawberry lemonade was some of the best money I&#8217;d spent recently at a restaurant.&#8217; So, I decided to see if that meal was still available. It was and the review still held, but not the price. It was only $15 for that meal here!<\/p>\n<p>I was due for a Walmart run, so I went out in the afternoon to run errands, then I came home and crashed with embroidery and movies (and cats).<\/p>\n<p>I really didn&#8217;t watch my battery usage last night, running an LED light for hours, charging the laptop, and plugging in the electric blanket for several hours. I went to sleep with the battery voltage around 11.8 and woke up to it being 12.3, not bad considering that I was up almost two hours earlier than yesterday in much greyer and wetter weather!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be rolling out of Eugene sometime around noon. I flagged down a security car on the way to the Starbucks this morning and caught the same guy as the night I pulled in. I let him know that I am leaving today and made sure that it&#8217;s okay to hang out for a part of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda&#8217;s due for an oil change, so I&#8217;d like to have that done today but none of my leads can fit me in, so I may have to wait a bit longer. I&#8217;m getting antsy to have this done, but we&#8217;re not at the critical stage yet.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m off to the Oregon coast for a few days! I have no idea what internet access will be like there, but there is a Starbucks in Florence. At $1.50 for a coffee, it&#8217;s a reasonable temporary solution for getting online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke to dampness. I haven&#8217;t been able to run the dehumidifier in forever and look forward to entering a drier climate in the next week or so. It was a nice day yesterday, being in such a great spot (I will be sharing pictures of it!). I spent a few hours at Starbucks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150,635,1037,5,3,16],"tags":[853,794],"class_list":["post-21999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eugene","category-north-america","category-oregon","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","tag-accommodation","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}