{"id":256,"date":"2007-10-15T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/beatnik-day-for-reiley-and-me\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T04:07:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T09:07:49","slug":"beatnik-day-for-reiley-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/beatnik-day-for-reiley-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatnik day for Reiley and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reiley and I had a fun day yesterday.  Wrenny headed over to Grammy&#8217;s for a sleepover, and mom painted most of the day.  So Reiley and I had some adventures!  We started off playing a big game of Age Of Empires ]I[ with the Warchiefs expansion, she and I facing off against a couple computer players.  She swept the game, topping every stat by the end.  I guess I don&#8217;t need to fear roughing her up one-on-one any more &#8211; the inverse being MUCH more likely.<\/p>\n<p>After that, we went for coffee &#8211; she&#8217;s been sneaking sips of my soy lattes, I&#8217;m horribly addicted ever since Seattle where Starbucks had me surrounded on every street corner &#8211; and she talked me into getting her own (SMALL) soy latte.  We read for over an hour, really nice.  She finished up her book just in time for me to take her to the book club for which she was reading.  Then she continued her adventures with her drama group.  <\/p>\n<p>After Wrenny got home from dinner with Grammy at Crazy Fire, I went out to round up grub for everyone else &#8211; a fajita for Andrea and chinese for Reiley, and we all chilled out.  It was just the right kind of busy, relaxing day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reiley and I had a fun day yesterday. Wrenny headed over to Grammy&#8217;s for a sleepover, and mom painted most of the day. So Reiley and I had some adventures! We started off playing a big game of Age Of Empires ]I[ with the Warchiefs expansion, she and I facing off against a couple computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/beatnik-day-for-reiley-and-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beatnik day for Reiley and me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-48","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/reiley-and-i-play-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":0},"title":"Reiley and I play war","author":"m","date":"February 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday we decided that Reiley was old enough to play a Real Time Strategy war game with me. 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