{"id":740,"date":"2013-08-29T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=740"},"modified":"2013-08-29T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:47:59","slug":"cruel-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/29\/cruel-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruel Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, Sarah didn’t leave me here on my own.<\/p>\n

But I am incredibly frustrated with many things right now.<\/p>\n

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  1. Health. \u00a0I’ve been going at Mach five since is started this new job, and the wear is starting to show. \u00a0How do you quantify the value of compensation that involves merely getting to a computer in the morning? \u00a0I’m trying to do the things I need to do to be healthy, but just getting through the week can be a lot of work sometimes. \u00a0I don’t see very well. \u00a0I don’t walk very well. \u00a0I need to use the bathroom a lot. \u00a0I can’t drive anymore (And, yes, the ‘Stang is still for sale….). \u00a0These are things that come along with my condition. \u00a0Do I still have things to offer? \u00a0Sure, which brings me to….<\/li>\n
  2. Work. \u00a0I haven’t written much about what I’m doing lately, but I feel like the people I’m answering to are only doing the bare minimum to get by. \u00a0I’m also expected to think that’s peachy-keen. \u00a0Well, I don’t, and never will. I understand working in haste. \u00a0I also understand delivering products that don’t even approach adequacy, much less quality. Some of my tweets <\/a>the past couple of months may have seemed obtuse because of that. \u00a0Doing bad work quickly doesn’t excuse the immorality that is doing bad work just for a paycheck. \u00a0And, again, if you spend a lot of time splitting hairs between moral and ethical conduct, you likely understand, or care about, neither. \u00a0I want the opportunity to do good work. \u00a0I hope there’s some employer out there who cares more about that than the extra letters I, or someone else, bought to put after my name. \u00a0(Hint: \u00a0Yes, if you’re looking for my services, I’m listening….And I will never give the bare minimum, even if that’s what you’re giving me in return.)<\/li>\n
  3. Speaking of more letters, I don’t know what I should do about potentially going back to school. \u00a0Sarah is excited to do it; \u00a0I can’t say I share her enthusiasm. \u00a0I’m thrilled for her, of course, but I really don’t know how much use I’d get out of going back. \u00a0For now, I’m going to worry about helping her get where she wants to be, then I’ll look again.<\/li>\n
  4. 757.org<\/a> is functioning better than it has in a long, long time. \u00a0I really don’t have an idea exactly what its future is, but I’m happy with where I’ve gotten it this year. \u00a0A lot of the lingering problems relate to stale PHP around in various places. \u00a0*sigh*<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And that’s where I’m going to shut up for now. \u00a0If you’re looking to get in touch with me, my phone number hasn’t changed since 1999. \u00a0I’m still available via E-Mail at sean@757.org. \u00a0There’s much gluttony to entertain after this shitty-ass summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    No, Sarah didn’t leave me here on my own. But I am incredibly frustrated with many things right now. Health. \u00a0I’ve been going at Mach five since is started this new job, and the wear is starting to show. \u00a0How do you quantify the value of compensation that involves merely getting to a computer in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,23,36,38],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-757-org","tag-ms","tag-uncategorized","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}