{"id":30935,"date":"2023-04-17T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30935"},"modified":"2023-04-16T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:52:12","slug":"probably-no-longer-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/17\/probably-no-longer-valid\/","title":{"rendered":"Probably No Longer Valid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the drawer of the second desk in my office, the smaller desk that I bought at a garage sale in 1999 and promptly removed the metal handles and trim so that I could refinish it.  And, for coming up on a quarter century, the desk has been in five different offices while the metal bits have been in the workshop room and now garage.  Somewhere.  I might think about putting the metal bits back on someday, maybe when I come across them.<\/p>\n<p>I was in the drawer looking for a needle, as the fob I encased <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/a-four-hundred-dollar-millimeter-of-plastic-averted\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in needlepoint<\/a>, started to fall apart after almost four years&#8217; worth of getting jammed into pants pockets.<\/p>\n<p>And floating at the top of the drawer of unused pens, spare luggage tags, and the mirror from the driver&#8217;s side mirror of a 1986 Geo Storm, I found a voucher from Dave &#038; Busters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/dabvoucher.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>From 2002.<\/p>\n<p>That voucher has traveled in that drawer since then, from Casinoport to Old Trees to Nogglestead.<\/p>\n<p>Gentle reader. brace yourself for this revelation:  After scanning it, <em>I discarded it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, you did not see that coming.<\/p>\n<p>But I must be getting into a spring cleaning mood or something, but I&#8217;ve been putting things away recently.  Things that have not been put away for years.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just making it easier for the people who put on my eventual estate sale.<\/p>\n<p>But the coin tokens from the Millennium arcade that was at Crestwood Plaza Mall at about the same time, the turn of the century?  Not so fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the drawer of the second desk in my office, the smaller desk that I bought at a garage sale in 1999 and promptly removed the metal handles and trim so that I could refinish it. And, for coming up on a quarter century, the desk has been in five different offices while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30937,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935\/revisions\/30937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}