{"id":8707,"date":"2007-03-27T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/up-early\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:18","slug":"up-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/up-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_394_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_394_.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Work, early in the morning.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Walking into work early&#8230;<br \/>(Click for more <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\">moblog<\/a> photos.)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just after 5am I woke up and realized that I wasn&#8217;t especially sleepy, and I could just wake up then. So I did. I took a nice, long shower, then made some coffee in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moka_Express\">Moka<\/a> before heading out to work.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice driving to work in the dark, windows partially down, singing along with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/They_Might_Be_Giants\">TMBG<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln_%28album%29\">Lincoln<\/a>, feeling the slightly-warm air from the car&#8217;s heater swirling around with the ~56\u00b0F outdoor air. I took the 22 Mile -> Ryan -> Hamlin -> West Entrance Drive route, which was empty enough that I had to occasionally use my high beams, just to make sure that there weren&#8217;t any deer on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m here, and I&#8217;ll see what I can get done before the time I&#8217;ve been coming in lately (~9am). Hopefully all of my work for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking into work early&#8230;(Click for more moblog photos.) Just after 5am I woke up and realized that I wasn&#8217;t especially sleepy, and I could just wake up then. So I did. I took a nice, long shower, then made some coffee in the Moka before heading out to work. It was nice driving to work\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}