Traveled to lovely Horn Lake, Miss., to get the car back today. The bastard started the first time I tried, and hasn’t not started since. And my new brakes are deliciously tight and cushy, much like _________’s mom (reader’s choice). <\/p>\n
So, victory. Whee!<\/p>\n
Phil was hopped up on endorphins all day today. He won a beautiful, extremely expensive guitar from work for his outstanding employee performance. And when I say extremely expensive, I’m talking more valuable than my student loans. Yeah, it’s nice<\/i>. His company<\/a> also hooked its employees up with a nice little cash bonus and some freebies, like embossed duffel bags and blankets and shirts. And a steak lunch!<\/p>\n Meanwhile, some companies<\/a> that own local newspapers<\/a> posted multi-billion dollar profits this year, yet they refuse to give their employees a cost of living raise (in fact, employees at this particular news outlet have not seen a COL raise in several years) or Christmas bonuses or Kroger gift cards or anything. They’re not even going to supply a meat and cheese platter for the poor schleps having to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The poor schleps, I might add, who will not be getting paid overtime to work on the holidays.<\/p>\n Hmmm.<\/p>\n But I guess I can’t complain. I got some sweet Christmas swag today from Ashley (a set of ENORMOUS wine glasses, Monster House<\/i> on DVD, a bottle of lotion that I’ve been lusting after since I smelled it at her house, and a bottle of Millington’s finest wine). I felt sheepish because I gave her a book<\/a> yesterday. A book! In my defense, I’ve not been able to finish my shopping, so hopefully tomorrow I can pick up the rest of my stuff for her. And for everyone else still left on my list. <\/p>\n Looks like I’ll be getting up at the ass crack of dawn and taking care of that. <\/p>\n Yeah, me and every other slack-ass in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Traveled to lovely Horn Lake, Miss., to get the car back today. The bastard started the first time I tried, and hasn’t not started since. And my new brakes are deliciously tight and cushy, much like _________’s mom (reader’s choice). So, victory. Whee! Phil was hopped up on endorphins all day today. He won a beautiful, extremely expensive guitar from work for his outstanding employee performance. And when I say extremely expensive, I’m talking more… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-cruisin","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}