{"id":3634,"date":"2019-11-19T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2019-11-19T22:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:03:30","slug":"tying-up-loose-ends-to-throw-them-out-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/tying-up-loose-ends-to-throw-them-out-to-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Tying up Loose Ends (To Throw Them out to Sea)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a little warmer this morning, and I should have taken the bike. We finally started testing, and I immediately got called down to the opposite end of the campus for a non-issue that was resolved before I got there. I had a bagel for breakfast and couldn&#8217;t find a toaster anywhere. Asking around didn&#8217;t turn up a lot of suggestions, and ultimately Lee seemed to really want to go for a walk down to home ec, so we busted right into a full classroom and I bashfully asked to borrow theirs. Then I spent a bit of the morning catching up on some things that needed catching. Being an excellent multitasker, I was able to make a few calls while I was working so I could verify my benefits for next year, get back into my old retirement 401(k), and even get bounced around to a third and fourth customer service contact for Summer&#8217;s failing ONN TV that I got from Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to go to Ruby Tuesday for another $5 salad, and I should have just gone by myself, but Brice, Allen, and Jason all wanted to go to Long John Silver&#8217;s for a $5 meal coupon they sent out today. I was nervous when we encountered a sign on the front door asking customers to call a number to report if the restaurant was not open during its posted business hours. The guy inside even seemed a bit sketchier than usual, but we all made it out in the end with free drinks and an extra side of fries for Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Jason wanted to come work with me at the high school in the afternoon, so after milling around the shop for a bit, we headed up to my office. I had him hunt down some Adobe stuff for Macs while I poked at another issue I was having. Then we took the trip across the campus to install Daniel&#8217;s software and set up Tina&#8217;s new computer. Jason had to leave just as school let out, and I kept tripping over myself trying to reconfigure the switch that Tina&#8217;s computer was plugged into, but at the end of the day Gary was able to save the day. I stuck around late trying to figure out why my test software deployment kept failing, and finally gave up so I could make it up to Summer&#8217;s for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>She had stayed home sick today, and made spaghetti mac(?) since she didn&#8217;t have proper spaghetti noodles. It turned out really yummy though, and then we watched an episode of\u00a0<em>Parks and Rec<\/em> with Eaddie before I headed home for the night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t you know what happened to the little boy who cried, &#8220;wolf!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a little warmer this morning, and I should have taken the bike. We finally started testing, and I immediately got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,29,36,27],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anger-management","tag-family","tag-food","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}