{"id":2576,"date":"2016-08-08T16:54:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2016-08-08T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:54:57","slug":"eight-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/08\/eight-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What job would you never take?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another with the four-letter company where I worked. &nbsp;What a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Backstory&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-us-navy-military-sealift-command-manager-sentenced-receiving-bribes\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this criminal<\/a>&nbsp;recommended me following a contract changeover. I\u2019d butted heads with him several times, trying to get him to provide some justification for whatever hairbrained drop-in solution the vendor who\u2019d picked up his bar tab was hocking&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, so I took the job. For 77% of what i\u2019d been earning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the overall experience was bad. The shitty compensation only exacerbated things. Because I wasn\u2019t in a sunny mood all the time, and continued to call people on their bullshit&#8230;.. I\u2019m going to stop there, because it\u2019s not all that interesting. (And I had to just delete more snark about it&#8230;.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, that\u2019s an easy answer to that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a dream last night I was back in radio. Who the hell knows where that came from. I really am not in shape to be doing air work, would have trouble doing some of the techie work, and would never do sales&#8230;.I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing early in the morning today because I woke up way early. I\u2019m still in pain. Pfft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what to write about tomorrow? Hmmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hall of Fame game got cancelled because the logo painted on the field made the surface too hard to play on. I\u2019m looking forward to&nbsp;<em>Hard Knocks<\/em>.&nbsp;<strong>Have you ever been to see an NFL training camp?<\/strong>&nbsp;One of my three high schools was in Carlisle, PA, which is home to Dickinson College, where the Redskins trained for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the tumult following Jack Kent Cooke\u2019s death, The Dan saw that Norval moved camp back to Virginia, after a couple of years in Maryland (Frostburg?). Either Schottenheimer or Spurrier decided it needed to head back to Carlisle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a Tuesday off, and decided to head up to see camp. Going to go through my old OD archive to see if I can find what I wrote then, and whatever else I can add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What job would you never take? Another with the four-letter company where I worked. &nbsp;What a disaster. Backstory&nbsp;this criminal&nbsp;recommended me following a contract changeover. I\u2019d butted heads with him several times, trying to get him to provide some justification for whatever hairbrained drop-in solution the vendor who\u2019d picked up his bar tab was hocking&#8230;. And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}