{"id":4411,"date":"2015-04-13T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2015-04-14T13:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:52:34","slug":"odds-n-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/4411","title":{"rendered":"Odds &#8216;n Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If it sucks we keep it. If it doesn&#8217;t suck we take it back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2015\/April\/vaccuum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"587\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Evidently the Bissell <strong>Multi-Cyclone with Hepa Filter Boost<\/strong> (!) we&#8217;ve made do with the past six years is no longer capable of upsucking so much as a single pubic hair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have central vacuuming in our house, at least the house was plumbed for such,\u00a0 but Happy Wife has never been keen on fully implementing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s donate the Bissell to the less fortunate,&#8221; I humbly offered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;No!&#8221; I was sternly reproved. As if I were a rich man knocking at Heaven&#8217;s door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Value Village, I was told in no uncertain terms, strictly forbids vacuum cleaner donations. &#8220;Why, what if the innards of the cleaner are crawling with bed bugs, hmm?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I admit I hadn&#8217;t considered such a thing. It&#8217;s a good thing there are people in this world who do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Into the garbage it goes, I guess. Goodness knows we don&#8217;t want to be a propagators of Bed Buggage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We went whale watching last weekend with <a title=\"Kenai Fjords Tours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaifjords.com\/?gclid=CP7u29Pw9MQCFdKFfgodLqMAlA\" target=\"_blank\">Kenai Fjords Tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EcBvbraafZ4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At about 20 seconds you&#8217;ll hear me utter a faux concern as we approach the spires, that the Captain (~50 secs) is not at the helm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everywhere we went we watched and watched and watched for whales. Nada. And then, shortly after the captain fearlessly guided the boat between the spires, we spotted a gray whale. It lazily surfaced and showed us a fluke, and then just as quickly disappeared again into the leviathan darkness. And we waited. And waited. And waited some more for it to resurface. The captain mentioned,&#8221;like watching paint dry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minutes later someone shouted, &#8220;There it is!&#8221; Why yes, sure enough, even I could see the remnant disturbance on the water, a thousand or more feet away. By the time iPhones were deployed it was once again gone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paint Dried. We moved on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Near Chival Island we paused to watch another gray. Equally elusive. Totally undaunted by our presence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Again we moved on. This time to deeper water chasing the hope heard over the radio by another boat that they had spotted Orcas!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whatya know.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OR4P6njcglE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Okay, fine, you&#8217;re right, I agree &#8212; but what a day on the water we had! We also saw harbor seals aplenty, Dahl porpoises (mini Orcas), a lazy otter, and sea lions (aka Orca food).<\/p>\n<p>Friends have begun showing up in email lately, &#8220;We&#8217;re coming to Alaska this summer, you gonna be around?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I assure them, we will be around, we are here for you. We are always here for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it sucks we keep it. If it doesn&#8217;t suck we take it back. Evidently the Bissell Multi-Cyclone with Hepa Filter Boost (!) we&#8217;ve made do with the past six years is no longer capable of upsucking so much as a single pubic hair. We have central vacuuming in our house, at least the house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}