{"id":403,"date":"2024-08-22T21:45:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T01:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2024-08-22T21:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T01:46:24","slug":"milestones-and-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"milestones and setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>interesting day.  got on the scale this morning and saw a number i have not seen in a while, that was nice.  then off to work, my turn for the performance eval..  which went pretty good!  got a pay raise that i know i deserve, but didn&#8217;t expect to get yet.  bumped me up to a financial milestone as far an annual salary is concerned in the process.  woot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>flip side would be the unhinged and angry text from j about our upcoming trip. i didn&#8217;t do anything other than try to insist he buy lederhosen for oktoberfest&#8230; because we&#8217;re all wearing them and so is everyone else. well, he apparently will not be wearing lederhosen and he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t want to hear another word about it.&#8221;. i chose not to respond. gonna see him this weekend anyways and we&#8217;ll figure it out then. funny, it&#8217;s exactly the same tone he took when the pandemic started and i tried to warn him about what was coming, he thought i was a complete lunatic and insisted it was just a cold. then when the world exploded i mentioned one time to him &#8220;just a cold huh?&#8221; and he lost it on me the same way. like dude&#8230; come on&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also, i may or may not have consumed a RIFF Limonade a la Framboise from the SQDC as a celebratory beverage for hitting a financial milestone and then had part of my brain shut down in the middle of trying to support a conversation with a.  it did not go well.  But no one is angry or anything, i guess it was just awkward and confusing.  i should probably explain tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>interesting day. got on the scale this morning and saw a number i have not seen in a while, that was nice. then off to work, my turn for the performance eval.. which went pretty good! got a pay raise that i know i deserve, but didn&#8217;t expect to get yet. bumped me up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">milestones and setbacks<\/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":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sad","category-happy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}