{"id":1689,"date":"2010-04-02T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2020-04-11T07:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T11:03:43","slug":"burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/02\/burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Had a first today &#8211; missed my flight home. It was totally my fault, and Airtran was very nice about it &#8211; simply rebooking me on the 9:30pm (I missed the 6:44 by arriving at 6:55, close, but no pleasant evening with friends). So here I sit in Terminal D of BWI &#8211; nursing some kinda airport beer and asking if they&#8217;ll substitute coleslaw for the fries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of fries &#8211; I&#8217;m fried. Too much travel &#8211; too many fires. I&#8217;ve been on back to back trips for two weeks now &#8211; and (more important) averaging above 50% on the road for the past three months. That&#8217;s excessive. I renewed my gold status at my favorite hotel chain and rental car company in less than a quarter. Eek. The reason for all this excitement is that things are coming to a head at a couple of different customer sites. I&#8217;m actually excited at the chance to finally <strong>fix<\/strong> things for these people (rather than replacing band-aids again) &#8211; but in the words of my colleage: &#8220;the allure of the tiny soaps wore off a long time ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, when <a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a> pranked me for <a href=\"http:\/\/multiplexer.livejournal.com\/358827.html\">ignore the internet day<\/a> by saying that she wanted to quit her job and start a <s>yarn store<\/s> craft co-op, I bit and bit hard. I&#8217;m still running numbers in my head &#8211; and I don&#8217;t think that we can be right in the stylish part of town unless we have a prostitution or alcohol sideline. $4k per month rent for a storefront is just too high &#8211; especially if we want to quit our day jobs. However, if we can do something creative to make the storefront pay for itself &#8230; there are possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m continuing to purify the mental environment. Facebook, twitter, and livejournal are tools for me. They do not exist to make me a slave to anyone. Therefore, I&#8217;ve been quietly purging the ranks. If I&#8217;m no longer rising to your flamebait &#8211; it&#8217;s probably because I noticed that I got pissed off most of the time you tweeted or updated a status. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t like you. Drop in any time for a civilized cup of tea &#8211; it&#8217;s just that your presence on the net bugs me. No hard feelings, mmm&#8217;kay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a first today &#8211; missed my flight home. It was totally my fault, and Airtran was very nice about it &#8211; simply rebooking me on the 9:30pm (I missed the 6:44 by arriving at 6:55, close, but no pleasant evening with friends). So here&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}