{"id":326,"date":"2005-02-24T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T17:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=326"},"modified":"2005-02-24T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T17:38:32","slug":"on-the-morning-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"On the Morning Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through a six-page thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trekbbs.com\/\">TrekBBS<\/a> this morning I came to a realization.  The bloody thread <i>needs<\/i> Simon Cooper and his angry Irish voice.  Oh, I&#8217;ve no doubt I would disagree with his insights, but the world needs more snarky ranting, which Simon was always able to deploy at a moment&#8217;s notice.  Simon, buddy, have a Guinness.<\/p>\n<p>My supervisor called me this morning with a complement&#8211;<i>Gran Turismo 4<\/i> is doing <i>very<\/i> well.  He called last night with another complement.  Good feelings.<\/p>\n<p>I need to hammer out a schedule for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional visit didn&#8217;t happen.  My supervisor, though, did come by the store yesterday afternoon.  He planned on staying an hour and stayed three and a half instead.  Unfortunately, I hadn&#8217;t eaten&#8211;I worked from nine to five by myself and intended to take a dinner break when my evening person came in to work&#8211;and with my supervisor there I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable in saying, &#8220;Dude, I need to clock out and grab some food before I go from half-mad to all-mad.&#8221;  Alas, I <i>did<\/i> reach all-mad.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s best that a friend was sick yesterday and couldn&#8217;t meet me for drinks after work.  Even though I had (or have) something I need input on, yesterday night after work wouldn&#8217;t have been the right time to broach the subject.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rainy, dreary day.  The news has reported a wintry mix, but you need winter to have a wintry mix.<\/p>\n<p>The cats have me concerned.  It&#8217;s a plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through a six-page thread on TrekBBS this morning I came to a realization. The bloody thread needs Simon Cooper and his angry Irish voice. Oh, I&#8217;ve no doubt I would disagree with his insights, but the world needs more snarky ranting, which Simon was always able to deploy at a moment&#8217;s notice. Simon, buddy,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Morning Round-Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[228,4093,4124],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-eb-games","tag-life","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}