{"id":1549,"date":"2008-01-09T22:41:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T06:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2008-01-09T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T06:41:57","slug":"not-talking-about-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Not talking about work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, so far so good. My co-workers seem a bit jaded, but they&#8217;re all customer support engineer-type people so I can understand. I&#8217;m still trying to get up to speed so I&#8217;m just hiding and reading training materials.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to work I was wondering why everyone was driving so slowly. It was making me nuts. Then I noticed that a car had slid into the ditch. It was icy, and I don&#8217;t drive like a maniac so much any more, so I didn&#8217;t notice. I mean going from an S2000 to a Civic Hybrid pretty much means boring driver, doesn&#8217;t it? I guess it got even worse after I got to work and there was a head-on collision just outside the entrance to the parking lot. My boss had to work from home because his driveway was a sheet of ice.<\/p>\n<p>I will say one more thing about work: my laptop is starting to die. If I pick it up, the video goes blank and I can&#8217;t get it to come back. A blank screened laptop isn&#8217;t worth all that much but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m in line for a new laptop for another year (they replace them on a scheduled basis). Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, so far so good. My co-workers seem a bit jaded, but they&#8217;re all customer support engineer-type people so I can understand. I&#8217;m still trying to get up to speed so I&#8217;m just hiding and reading training materials. On the way to work I was wondering why everyone was driving so slowly. It was making me nuts. Then I noticed that a car had slid into the ditch. It was icy, and I don&#8217;t drive like a maniac so much any more, so I didn&#8217;t notice. I mean going from an S2000 to a Civic Hybrid pretty much means boring driver, doesn&#8217;t it? I guess it got even worse after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not talking about work.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","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=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}