{"id":25,"date":"2002-09-15T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2002-09-15T07:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/09\/15\/abilene-texas\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T07:34:12","slug":"abilene-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/09\/15\/abilene-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"-Abilene, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

-Abilene, Texas

Arrived today for the SWAT Competition<\/a>, checked into the hotel formerly known as the Embassy Suites. Not a bad hotel really. Unlike typical SWAT trips, we somehow have a 1:1 man\/bed ratio. Being serious about competition we go to the Outback Steakhouse -conveniently located next door, and order like we mean it. I give the San Antonio guys a look of disdain as I notice the dinner salads and water glasses scattered across their table. San Antonio’s android-SWAT cops stop by on their way out just as the second round of 22 oz. drafts arrives and they have a nice laugh. Well, what would pass for a laugh in a human anyway.
A bit later we come dragging back to the hotel and I can see the lights in room 360 (our robot friends) are already out. I ask the clerk for the location of the ice machine.

<Clerk Lady>: What room you in hon’?<\/I>
<Me>: 360<\/I>
<Clerk Lady>(pointing): Just up to the left and down that hall.<\/I>
<Me>: Thank you very much ma’am.<\/I>
<Me>: Oh, can I get a wake-up call?<\/I>
<Clerk Lady>: Of course, room 360, what time hon’?<\/I>
<Me>: 3:45… No, 4:00.<\/I>
<Clerk Lady>(writing): Gothca, hon’.<\/I>
<\/BLOCKQUOTE> I had to figure out where the ice machine on the second floor was myself, but it wasn’t that hard.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

-Abilene, Texas Arrived today for the SWAT Competition, checked into the hotel formerly known as the Embassy Suites. Not a bad hotel really. Unlike typical SWAT trips, we somehow have a 1:1 man\/bed ratio. Being serious about competition we go to the Outback Steakhouse -conveniently located next door, and order like we mean it. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}