{"id":2,"date":"2009-07-20T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geekroots.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-10-26T02:56:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T00:56:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler and Mieka met the old fashioned way, through the internet!<\/p>\n<p>She Said: &#8220;He had a little joke on his profile, &#8216;time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana&#8217;. It just tickled me in the right spot and in the right way. He also had a picture of himself from Halloween dressed up like a redneck rocker dude. He had on a mullet wig, a Lynyrd Skynyrd t-shirt and these horrible stars and stripes pants. I figured a guy who dresses like that in public can&#8217;t take himself too seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/skynard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-77\" title=\"skynard\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/skynard-140x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/skynard-140x300.jpg 140w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/skynard-70x150.jpg 70w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/skynard.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He Said: &#8220;I seem to remember saying, &#8216;well, you sound like a handful.&#8217; And so far it seems I was right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/handful.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101 aligncenter\" title=\"handful\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/handful-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/handful-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/handful-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/handful-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two exchanged emails and decided to arrange a meeting. A coffee date was proposed. The two met at Jimmy Bean&#8217;s, a restaurant in Berkeley. The two liked the looks of each other enough to order brunch instead of just coffee.\u00a0 They found that at the end of the meal, they STILL liked each other. Tyler and Mieka decided to take a walk. A very romantic walk to the parking lot of the race track and past the feral cat hideout. They came out the other end at the Albany Bulb, a park that was once landfill and is currently home to several homeless camps and a dog park. And they STILL liked each other!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/jimmy-beans.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74 alignnone\" title=\"jimmy beans\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/jimmy-beans.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/jimmy-beans.jpeg 272w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/jimmy-beans-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/albany-bulb.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73 alignnone\" title=\"albany bulb\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/albany-bulb.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/albany-bulb.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/albany-bulb-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On their second date (or first, depending on who you ask), the two went to see the band Red Meat at Cafe Du Nord. Things start to get all mushy here. Like kissing and stuff, yuck! Needless to say, things progressed apace and within 6 months, Tyler and Mieka began to search for a apartment that could hold BOTH of their book collections!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/cafe-du-nord.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75 alignnone\" title=\"cafe du nord\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/cafe-du-nord.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/cafe-du-nord.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/cafe-du-nord-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/Red-Meat.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76 alignnone\" title=\"Red Meat\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/Red-Meat.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/Red-Meat.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/09\/Red-Meat-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three years, two apartments, one house, two cats, then one cat and one weird dog later; the two revisited The Albany Bulb. On that day, Tyler proposed marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/ring.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-103\" title=\"ring\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/ring-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/ring-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/ring-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/ring.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/me-too.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-98\" title=\"me too\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/me-too-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/me-too-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/me-too-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/2010\/10\/me-too.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler and Mieka met the old fashioned way, through the internet! She Said: &#8220;He had a little joke on his profile, &#8216;time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana&#8217;. It just tickled me in the right spot and in the right way. He also had a picture of himself from Halloween dressed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tylerandmieka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}