{"id":1164,"date":"2002-07-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2002\/07\/18\/random-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2002-07-18T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-18T22:00:00","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2002\/07\/18\/random-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10:26 am &#8211; What is the point of being a &#8220;low water use facility&#8221; when all it means is that you have to flush the toilets <i>twice every time<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>And don&apos;t get me started about the necessity of posting a flyer in every stall with a &#8220;reminder to flush&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>11:25 am &#8211; Employment really is a Good Thing<sup>TM<\/sup>!  Rob has a job now too, and it seems like something he can really get into.  A happy husband is also a <i>very<\/i> Good Thing<sup>TM<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>I know that I feel a lot better, certainly a lot less depressed.  Hopefully I can now find the motivation to get the house in order.  It&apos;s embarrassing, yet it&apos;s so hard to get past my apathy, which just leads to more self-loathing.<\/p>\n<p>3:03 pm &#8211; I feel <i>guilty<\/i> twiddling my thumbs here at work.  But there&apos;s truly <i>nothing<\/i> I can do right now.  I&apos;ve contacted everyone on my list &#8211; multiple times &#8211; and there&apos;s nothing I can do until they call me back.  I guess that&apos;s a peril of a temp job.<\/p>\n<p>So I&apos;ve got my Palm with AvantGo and Mobipocket.  That gives me news and selected web pages, including my LJ Friends page (although I can&apos;t get to comments).  I&apos;ve got 4 books loaded, and the Constitution.  I&apos;ve got a chunk of three Usenet groups.  I&apos;ve got Backgammon, Cribbage, Tetris, and Yahtzee.  Plus it finally dawned on me to bring a tech book &#8211; I chose &#8220;DHTML &#038; CSS&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>5:00 pm  &#8211; Yay!!!  I get to go home!<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">6:12 pm &#8211; Home and on my pc.  Note to self:  Multiple Palm LJ posts on one sync doesn&apos;t quite work right.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:26 am &#8211; What is the point of being a &#8220;low water use facility&#8221; when all it means is that you have to flush the toilets twice every time? And don&apos;t get me started about the necessity of posting a flyer in every stall with a &#8220;reminder to flush&#8221;. 11:25 am &#8211; Employment really is a Good ThingTM! Rob has a job now too, and it seems like something he can really get into. A happy husband is also a very Good ThingTM. I know that I feel a lot better, certainly a lot less depressed. Hopefully I can now find the motivation to get the house in order. It&apos;s embarrassing, yet it&apos;s so hard to get past my apathy, which just leads to more self-loathing. 3:03 pm &#8211; I feel guilty twiddling my thumbs here at work. But there&apos;s truly nothing I can do right now. I&apos;ve contacted everyone on my list &#8211; multiple times &#8211; and there&apos;s nothing I can do until they call me back. I guess that&apos;s a peril of a temp job. So I&apos;ve got my Palm with AvantGo and Mobipocket. That gives me news and selected web pages, including my LJ Friends page (although I can&apos;t get to comments). I&apos;ve got 4 books loaded, and the Constitution. I&apos;ve got a chunk of three Usenet groups. I&apos;ve got Backgammon, Cribbage, Tetris, and Yahtzee. Plus it finally dawned on me to bring a tech book &#8211; I chose &#8220;DHTML &#038; CSS&#8221;. 5:00 pm &#8211; Yay!!! I get to go home! 6:12 pm &#8211; Home and on my pc. Note to self: Multiple Palm LJ posts on one sync doesn&apos;t quite work right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}