{"id":813,"date":"2013-11-12T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=813"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:52:53","slug":"day-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/12\/day-12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burning sick leave this afternoon to go see the doc.  Why?  Um, because better safe than sorry. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you having problems with <i>xxxx<\/i>, and <i>yyyy<\/i>?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, which one?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Both.  Depends on the hour, really.&#8221;<br \/>\n*quizzical look*<br \/>\n&#8220;I have MS.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For the other things, can I do a LeBron James-style decision presser soon?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>(And it&#8217;d be awesome in its own, special, way.  We&#8217;ll set aside LeBron&#8217;s overbearing douchiness for the moment&#8230;&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>As I said a few days ago, it&#8217;s a good thing to have me on your team.  I do screw up.  A lot, sometimes.  But I&#8217;m trying to help you do whatever it is you&#8217;re doing the best way it can possibly be done.  When I disagree with you about something, I want you to <b>convince me<\/b> that your way is the right way.  I&#8217;m not going to harp on it forever after I&#8217;m convinced.  <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t mastered the expert systems engineer trait of being able to lose an argument with myself.  Most days.  Or maybe it&#8217;s the other way around&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I want to churn out something <b>quality<\/b>.  It may not be exactly what I&#8217;d originally envisioned in my scarred-up brain.  So be it.  If it makes sense, I&#8217;ll defend it until someone shows me why it isn&#8217;t the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>The big question I have, unlike LeBron, is, &#8220;where can I be fulfilled?&#8221;  I have far too little energy to spend on things that won&#8217;t be ultimately satisfying.  <\/p>\n<p><b>What job would you most like to have? What keeps you from getting it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be a real shame for me to blow such a meaty question.<\/p>\n<p>(Real answer:  see above.  I want to do whatever I can creatively to make something that&#8217;s ubiquitously-simple.  Too bad Tom already came up with the Jump-to-conclusions mat&#8230;..)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burning sick leave this afternoon to go see the doc. Why? Um, because better safe than sorry. &#8220;Are you having problems with xxxx, and yyyy?&#8221; &#8220;Yes.&#8221; &#8220;Well, which one?&#8221; &#8220;Both. Depends on the hour, really.&#8221; *quizzical look* &#8220;I have MS.&#8221; &#8220;Oh.&#8221; For the other things, can I do a LeBron James-style decision presser soon? Maybe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[26,36],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","category-uncategorized","tag-nojomo","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}