{"id":117,"date":"2004-06-02T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T20:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2006-06-28T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T18:08:26","slug":"the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"The week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I can&#8217;t believe it. Charlie&#8217;s actually gone to Canada. He packed up his car yesterday, said &#8220;goodbye&#8221; to Laureen (I was at work), and headed off to the next installment of his Amazing Adventure. One of these days, I&#8217;ll tell more of Charlie&#8217;s story, but he&#8217;ll have to tell it first.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for God&#8217;s blessings on him and his family. The next steps aren&#8217;t going to be easy, but he&#8217;s managed to walk a pretty narrow path while he&#8217;s been with us, and I can only hope he holds to the course and doesn&#8217;t get overly depressed about life.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Chris and Lisa on their impending move. Having been a guest in their house on numerous occasions, I&#8217;m really happy that Lisa&#8217;s getting a bigger kitchen. The current shoebox arrangement they have now is&#8230;&#8221;cozy&#8221;. It has a small work triangle, definitely.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Mickey Robison for getting a job with Countrywide. It&#8217;s nice to hear him be late &#8220;because he has to work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob: I love this kid. He&#8217;s growing up. He&#8217;s graduated from &#8220;Burrito Boy&#8221; to &#8220;Burrito Grande&#8221;&#8230; I&#8217;ve promised pictures before, and I&#8217;ll get around to them soon, once I get a chance to futz around with the computer. I&#8217;ll soon have a page solely for Jacob&#8217;s pics.<\/p>\n<p>Work: I hate overhearing conversations where people are talking on the phone relatively loudly. You always hear the strangest things. It&#8217;s hard not to make value judgments against my coworkers based on what I hear, but when one woman&#8217;s conversation consists primarily of the phrase &#8220;Shut Up&#8221; (said with multiple different intonations), it&#8217;s hard to be nice.<\/p>\n<p>My cubicle is on a main hallway, and as such there are oftentimes group conversations right outside it. A complicating factor is my proximity to the break room. I&#8217;ve only had to stand up once to get people to move (I was on a conference call at the time, and their talk of water skiing was throwing me).<\/p>\n<p>Currently reading: D-Day by Stephen Ambrose. After reading Citizen Soliders, I wanted to read some more books by this eminent war historian. Reading this book around Memorial Day puts things in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>What I Still Have To Do: pay bills. get car registered. figure out where the BNL CD went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week Well, I can&#8217;t believe it. Charlie&#8217;s actually gone to Canada. He packed up his car yesterday, said &#8220;goodbye&#8221; to Laureen (I was at work), and headed off to the next installment of his Amazing Adventure. One of these days, I&#8217;ll tell more of Charlie&#8217;s story, but he&#8217;ll have to tell it first. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}