{"id":251,"date":"2003-01-21T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-21T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=251"},"modified":"2003-01-21T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-21T14:15:00","slug":"the-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/251-the-waiting-game","title":{"rendered":"The waiting game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m sitting here at work, thinking I should be doing something sort of work related, and I realize that:<br \/>\n<b>A)<\/b> there isn&#8217;t a lot for me to do at the moment, mainly because<br \/>\n<b>B)<\/b> I&#8217;ve got a <i>major implementation<\/i> happening tomorrow, the first I&#8217;ve been able to accomplish in the nearly two years I&#8217;ve been on this assignment, and<br \/>\n<b>C)<\/b> tomorrow is going to be a <i>LONG DAY!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>All of which leaves me sitting at my desk, cooling my hoofies, and starting the long, arduous process of wrapping my brain around this implementation, making sure I haven&#8217;t forgotten anything that needs to be done, and making sure I don&#8217;t forget something that needs to be done at the time it needs to be done tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, I <b>also<\/b> have to be back in the office for 7:00 a.m. or earlier on Thursday morning, just to be around on the off chance that there are any problems encountered.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember this important piece of advice: <b>As soon as you make something foolproof, somebody else will come along with a new, improved fool!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. It is just another feather in my cap, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m sitting here at work, thinking I should be doing something sort of work related, and I realize that: A) there isn&#8217;t a lot for me to do at the moment, mainly because B) I&#8217;ve got a major implementation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/251-the-waiting-game\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}