{"id":132,"date":"2004-02-03T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-02-03T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T06:09:00","slug":"yeah-my-job-is-keeping-me-pretty-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, my job is keeping me pretty busy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having all that free time to screw around is pretty harsh. \ud83d\ude42 So far, I&#8217;m kind of confused and getting less confused all the time about what the job is about, but I think the ramp-up time will be lots shorter than larger companies with more distributed workloads and more places to, well, hide.<\/p>\n<p>Got my iPod today, and I can use it on my pitifully short commute. I&#8217;ve taken the bus twice and I&#8217;ve walked once and I&#8217;ve found the following:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Day<\/th>\n<th>To Work<\/th>\n<th>From Work<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2\/2<\/td>\n<td>Got a ride<\/td>\n<td>Walk &#8211; 35 min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2\/3<\/td>\n<td>Bus &#8211; 40 min<\/td>\n<td>Bus &#8211; 35 min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>So far, it takes longer to wait for the bus than to just get off my fat duff and start hiking. Which doesn&#8217;t seem to make any sense, because the times I&#8217;ve walked back I&#8217;ve always been passed by the bus. I guess I&#8217;ll have to try to catch the bus closer to peak commuting times when they come more often. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a little quicker to ride than to walk, but there&#8217;s not that much difference.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided the first song I listen to has to be &#8220;Oh, Sherry&#8221; by Steve Perry. Now to win some songs from the iTunes store by buying Pepsi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having all that free time to screw around is pretty harsh. \ud83d\ude42 So far, I&#8217;m kind of confused and getting less confused all the time about what the job is about, but I think the ramp-up time will be lots shorter than larger companies with more distributed workloads and more places to, well, hide. Got my iPod today, and I can use it on my pitifully short commute. I&#8217;ve taken the bus twice and I&#8217;ve walked once and I&#8217;ve found the following: Day To Work From Work 2\/2 Got a ride Walk &#8211; 35 min 2\/3 Bus &#8211; 40 min Bus &#8211; 35 min So far, it takes longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yeah, my job is keeping me pretty busy&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}