{"id":18957,"date":"2003-03-14T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T15:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2003\/03\/14\/100-points-to-erin-whos-spotted-the-trips-first-dead-armadillo"},"modified":"2005-10-09T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T00:24:47","slug":"100-points-to-erin-whos-spotted-the-trips-first-dead-armadillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2003\/03\/14\/100-points-to-erin-whos-spotted-the-trips-first-dead-armadillo","title":{"rendered":"Two dispatches from the Houston move"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\t100 points to Erin, who’s spotted the trip’s first dead armadillo.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMaybe this should be a new travel game, says Erin. Points are awarded
\nas follows, to any applicable traveling companions:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Common roadkill spotted (possum, skunk, squirrel, “unrecognizable”)\n<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Uncommon (armadillo, deer)<\/p>\nx2 = 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Super-rare (mountain lion)<\/p>\nx5 = 500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
If you created the roadkill<\/td>\nx(-2) (net: negative roadkill points)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hitchhiker<\/p>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Picked up hitchhiker<\/td>\n-100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hitchhiker roadkill (roadkill creation penalty applies, but this is
\nthe least of your worries)<\/p>\n		x10 = 1000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minute of driving time<\/p>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minute spent sleeping in car<\/p>\n-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
If you were driving at the time (per min.)<\/p>\n-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unusual sights (must be first spotter; hot air balloons, crop
\ndusters; The
\nThing?<\/a>)<\/p>\n		by consensus\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Succesful completion of the otherwise-lame License Plate Game<\/td>\n1000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

\n\t[It is extremely<\/em> tedious to edit HTML tables on a Palm. -ed.]\n<\/p>\n\n

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\n\tin Flatonia, halfway between San Antonio and Houston<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rocky central Texas hill country has given way to grassy plains
\nand forest that remind Erin of the midwest. We’ve probably got an hour
\nand a half until Sugar Land, and then<\/em> we can rest.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd do it all again in a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

100 points to Erin, who’s spotted the trip’s first dead armadillo. Maybe this should be a new travel game, says Erin. Points are awarded as follows, to any applicable traveling companions: Common roadkill spotted (possum, skunk, squirrel, “unrecognizable”) 50 Uncommon (armadillo, deer) x2 = 100 Super-rare (mountain lion) x5 = 500 If you created the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}