{"id":743,"date":"2006-02-11T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2006-02-11T02:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T02:48:00","slug":"this-blog-needs-a-swift-kick-in-the-ass-from-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/this-blog-needs-a-swift-kick-in-the-ass-from-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"This blog needs a swift kick in the ass … from Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesus was not above delivering tough love when necessary.*<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s not that I’m a slack-ass. It’s just that I can’t get a minute alone with an internet-connected computer. But Thursday is the day. I hope. Unless they tell me my cable box is hopeless. And then Thursday is the day I go on a killing spree. Stay tuned. <\/p>\n

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Training was canceled today. Our instructor apparently got sick. I question what kind of sick, because on Wednesday, during our lunch break, I was dicking around on my terminal when I happened to look on the instructor’s screen (there are two trainee terminals per table, and between each set there’s a monitor wired to the instructor’s computer so you can see what he’s doing and follow along while he teaches) and see him open up an e-mail from his wife. She said something to the effect of “When are you coming home? I miss you!” Her signature line said she was VP or something for some company in Birmingham, which is where we later learned our instructor lives. So he replied to her — I’m watching him type the damn thing, because I have no manners — something to the effect of, “I miss you too, but I can’t get out of here until FRIDAY” (yes, in allcaps).<\/p>\n

So it seems Mr. Teacher Man may have come down with a sickness, all right. <\/p>\n

I didn’t hear the news about the canceled class until I was already in the car with my art director, heading toward the freeway. He got a phone call from his wife, who’d gotten a call from our deputy managing editor, who’d heard from the instructor. <\/p>\n

I work in the communication business, people.<\/p>\n

So we just made the block and headed back to my apartment. He dropped me off at about 8:15 and I briefly pondered how best to utilize my day. Then I went back to bed, which turned out to be a good idea since I was asked to come in to work for the night shift. <\/p>\n

It was so great, sleeping until the sky turned that heavy slate color and started spitting snow. I could have done my taxes or finished unpacking, but … meh.<\/p>\n

I’m not looking forward to driving home in a couple of hours, though. The snow we got — at least a couple of inches — was slushy and it’s re-freezing as I type this. At least I don’t have a long way to go.<\/p>\n

Graphic stolen from a Fark<\/a> comment thread.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesus was not above delivering tough love when necessary.* It’s not that I’m a slack-ass. It’s just that I can’t get a minute alone with an internet-connected computer. But Thursday is the day. I hope. Unless they tell me my cable box is hopeless. And then Thursday is the day I go on a killing spree. Stay tuned. [][][] Training was canceled today. Our instructor apparently got sick. I question what kind of sick, because… <\/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-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-bZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}