{"id":284,"date":"2004-12-10T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=284"},"modified":"2004-12-10T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T04:59:00","slug":"284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2004\/12\/10\/284\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I took everyones advice.  I even strayed away from the drama&#8230; and this is the outcome :<\/p>\n<p>DCxr7: hi<br \/>Eshox23: hey<br \/>DCxr7: so.o do you want to go to the Blazers game?<br \/>DCxr7: if you don&#8217;t let me know and I&#8217;ll find someone else to go.. then we wont have to waste the night<br \/>Eshox23: Well, I&#8217;d love to go.. but if theres someone else that you&#8217;d want to go instead, then they can go in my place<br \/>DCxr7: You would love to go?<br \/>Eshox23: of course<br \/>DCxr7: since when?<br \/>Eshox23: But that&#8217;s okay<br \/>Eshox23: someone else can go if you want<br \/>Eshox23: I&#8217;m always up to going to games, when haven&#8217;t I been?<br \/>DCxr7: Do you want to go or not?  Its a waste of time and money if you dont want to go. <br \/>DCxr7: I can find someone who does want to go.<br \/>Eshox23: I&#8217;d rather leave that up to you.. because you asked me to go. if you&#8217;d rather have someone else go &#8211; then have them go, because I don&#8217;t want you not having a good time if I went.<br \/>DCxr7: Im asking you<br \/>Eshox23: so you can ask someone else to go if you want.<br \/>DCxr7: Do you want to go to the game with me.. sitting next to me.. the whole game.. the ride to the game.. the ride home&#8230; yes or no?<br \/>Eshox23: I want to know &#8211; you did ask me to go.. but it was because I WAS someone whod actually have the same amont of excitement as you.. BUT.. do you really want me to go.<br \/>DCxr7: Yes or no?<br \/>Eshox23: I don&#8217;t mind any of that actually.. what you stated above<br \/>Eshox23: but I want to know if you want me to go or not<br \/>DCxr7: I&#8217;ll tell you after you answer me<br \/>DCxr7: so whats the answer?<br \/>DCxr7: well while you think about it.. ill be back.<br \/>DCxr7: alright so whats the answer?<br \/>Eshox23: My answer is.. I&#8217;m going to pass on this game. Hope you have fun with whomever you invite to take my place!<br \/>DCxr7: k<br \/>DCxr7: my answer is I invited you because you were a blazers fan and to try and mend things to see how it went<br \/>Eshox23: Another thing is &#8211; I work on Sundays now.. and since that&#8217;s the first of the month *yes it still being the 2nd though* I don&#8217;t have the advantage of taking it off.<br \/>Eshox23: *unless I don&#8217;t have a job by then* then I would be able to<br \/>Eshox23: And to tell you the truth &#8211; a Blazers game.. sometimes seemed to mend things a lot of the times between us<br \/>Eshox23: I hope you have a fun time though.. hopefully Ill see you on the news or something lol<br \/>DCxr7: goodnight<br \/>Eshox23: bye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took everyones advice. I even strayed away from the drama&#8230; and this is the outcome : DCxr7: hiEshox23: heyDCxr7: so.o do you want to go to the Blazers game?DCxr7: if you don&#8217;t let me know and I&#8217;ll find someone else to go.. then we wont have to waste the nightEshox23: Well, I&#8217;d love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2003\/11\/25\/66\/","url_meta":{"origin":284,"position":0},"title":"My convo with JJ last\u2026","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"November 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"My convo with JJ last night went a little something like this....DCxr7: do you have an interest in being friends with me?DOUble09g: yeah why would you askDCxr7: whats your cell?DOUble09g: (480) 593-0234DCxr7: mine isDCxr7: 623-341-0774DOUble09g: alrightDOUble09g: what's going on?DCxr7: chillinDCxr7: takin it easyDOUble09g: coolDCxr7: yupDCxr7: you?DOUble09g: just sittin here and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2457,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2003\/09\/16\/17\/","url_meta":{"origin":284,"position":1},"title":"After lots of thought, I\u2026","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"September 16, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"After lots of thought, I came to the conclusion that I should probably accept the offer that my parents gave me. 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