{"id":240,"date":"2006-08-04T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/uncategorized\/broken-and-working\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:49:00","slug":"broken-and-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/2006\/08\/broken-and-working.html","title":{"rendered":"Broken &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. and working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazed around in the morning. The worst moment was when I realised that my CD player was inoperable.<br \/>Now, my CD player is blog-famous and has featured on my blog before<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/a2jdiary.blogspot.com\/2004\/03\/batteries-down.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Batteries down<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/a2jdiary.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/music-goes-ouch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Music goes ouch!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally it seemed to have died quietly in the still of the night and no attempt at resuscitation &#8211; including punching every button, juggling the adapter in every socket and changing the disc etc &#8211; showed any signs of life.<br \/>I was left with the option of playing CDs on my laptop which was more cumbersome. Anyway &#8211; no other option. I needed to buy a new mobile and my budget wouldnt allow me to add a CD player to that list. Vinu lent me his adapter but the voltage was not compatible with my player.<br \/>I went about the rest of my day &#8211; the usual attempts to learn etc. 11.30 PM saw me back in my room and with a burst of renewed inspiration I tried pushing the adapter into a different socket and unbelievably the display on the player flickered on and soon Building429 filled my room! <em>Awesome!<\/em><br \/>Guess God does perform some high-tech miracles at 11.30 in the night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought for the Day<\/strong><br \/>(Evangelin sent this to me by SMS)<br \/>Invite the Lord into the chemistry of life<br \/>He&#8217;ll dilute your sorrows;<br \/>Evaporate your worries;<br \/>Filter your mistakes;<br \/>And leave you with crystals of Happiness<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanx for the SMS Evangelin!<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em><u><strong>Push-up update<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My muscles were all sore today and I just managed 20 push-ups on my first attempt! Lousy. I tried again and dropped at 13! Help&#8230;. my body is crumbling!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazed around in the morning. The worst moment was when I realised that my CD player was inoperable.Now, my CD player is blog-famous and has featured on my blog beforeBatteries downMusic goes ouch! Finally it seemed to have died quietly in the still of the night and no attempt at resuscitation &#8211; including punching every button, juggling the adapter in every socket and changing the disc etc &#8211; showed any signs of life.I was left with the option of playing CDs on my laptop which was more cumbersome. Anyway &#8211; no other option. I needed to buy a new mobile and my budget wouldnt allow me to add a CD player to that list. Vinu lent me his adapter but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWFfI-3S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}