{"id":6914,"date":"2015-01-10T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=6914"},"modified":"2015-01-10T21:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:48:48","slug":"car-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=6914","title":{"rendered":"Car! Reptiles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very cold weekend.  Hummingbird Popsicle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-g3nZs2q\/0\/M\/IMG_4379-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday I worked on errands around the house.  Also took my car over to my mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>My car has nearly 250,000 miles on it.  The compression is getting old and needs a thicker oil.  They put a 40 weight instead of the 30.  Runs better.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-CWDBPmq\/0\/M\/IMG_4377-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Super cold outside.  K and I stayed in most of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed watching the last of the Upstairs\/Downstairs series with K.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had fun playing Far Cry 4 on my PS4.  Absolutely gorgeous landscape set in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-jgb5kj2\/0\/M\/IMG_4367-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are lots of wild animals in the world they&#8217;ve created.  I especially like the elephants.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-7LRBRDX\/0\/M\/IMG_4373-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-cSP7kxH\/0\/M\/IMG_4369-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday I met up with Jesse for lunch.  We went to Repticon to check out the Poison Dart Frogs and other interesting animals.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-GzzMZ4X\/0\/M\/IMG_4381-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-L6CtXfL\/0\/M\/IMG_4383-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-tqVw9Fp\/0\/M\/IMG_4384-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe the colors of these Poison Dart frogs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-Cj3gNG3\/0\/M\/IMG_4393-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-WN5Fnrm\/0\/M\/IMG_4394-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nAnd speaking of color!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-pHNV4Nj\/0\/M\/IMG_4397-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-PthWPj4\/0\/M\/IMG_4391-M.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I even got to pet an Ring Tailed Lemur and a baby armadillo.  Groovy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-kns99js\/0\/M\/IMG_4390-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a piglet?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-Q58DcG7\/0\/M\/IMG_4395-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stopped at Barnes and Noble for a brief visit. I thought this was mature reading.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-P5qv2WV\/0\/M\/IMG_4398-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>K and I watched and episode of Emma, a Jane Austen novel.  Also watched an episode of Call the Midwife.  Not super into either of them.  <\/p>\n<p>Admin duties now.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this article in Wired was interesting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-vcRzrLr\/0\/M\/IMG_4376-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful clouds and contrails.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-JDCj9ks\/0\/M\/IMG_4375-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Far-Cry-4-and-Repticon-11015\/i-JDkVpTQ\/0\/M\/IMG_4380-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cold weekend. Hummingbird Popsicle. On Friday I worked on errands around the house. Also took my car over to my mechanic. My car has nearly 250,000 miles on it. The compression is getting old and needs a thicker oil. They put a 40 weight instead of the 30. Runs better. Super cold outside. K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6919,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}