{"id":253,"date":"2009-07-13T20:57:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckinabox.com\/blog\/files\/my_week_off.php#unique-entry-id-120"},"modified":"2018-04-09T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:56:09","slug":"my-week-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"My Week Off…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had off from work for the past week, here’s just some of the things that I did, in order<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Watched the Subway 250 at Daytona<\/a>, Rock Band<\/a>, went to Jen and Chris’s for Independence Day, watched the Coca-Cola Zero at Daytona, spectacular wreck coming to the checkered, Ryan Newman<\/a> finished 20th, watched the Yankees<\/a>, watched Jarhead<\/a><\/em>, watched more Yankees, visiting my grandmother at Princeton Hospital, boo<\/em>, Dr. House was off that day, boo<\/em>, went to see The Hangover<\/a><\/em> with Dana, yay<\/em>! met the guys for a beer at Jo Jo’s<\/a>, painted, Rock Band, watched more Yankees, watched Deadliest Catch<\/a><\/em>, visited James<\/a> and Jane in Long Branch, went to WindMill Hot Dogs<\/a>, went to Lighthouse for water ice, watched more Yankees, watched Vincent & Theo<\/a><\/em>, painted, went to the Freedom Fest Fair<\/a> at the Horse Park of New Jersey<\/a>, watched the Dollar General 300 at Chicagoland<\/a>, Ryan Newman finished 22nd, Rock Band, watched the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland, Ryan Newman finished 6th, watched the Yankees, bad news, grandmom Beck died today, boo<\/em>, smoked a Macanudo Portofino that I’ve had in my humidor for about 5 years and drank some Maker’s Mark<\/a> to honor grandmom, watched Howl’s Moving Castle<\/a><\/em>, watched the new Entourage<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Today I just hung around and cleaned, put some stuff into storage and painted more, tonight I’ll finish off my “vacation” with the guys at Jo Jo’s Tavern<\/a>. I’ll see you there!<\/p>\n

R.I.P. Julia Beck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had off from work for the past week, here’s just some of the things that I did, in order: Watched the Subway 250 at Daytona, Rock Band, went to Jen and Chris’s for Independence Day, watched the Coca-Cola Zero at Daytona, spectacular wreck coming to the checkered, Ryan Newman finished 20th, watched the Yankees, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john_beck","wp-image-borders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XpZy-45","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":298,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=298","url_meta":{"origin":253,"position":0},"title":"American Idol","author":"John Beck","date":"February 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven\u2019t watched American Idol since it went live but I\u2019m shocked that guy Nick Mitchell\/Norman Gentle, whatever his name is, is still on American Idol. 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