{"id":248,"date":"2005-10-26T21:14:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T01:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2005-10-26T21:14:01","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T01:14:01","slug":"a-dark-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/a-dark-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dark Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today did not begin well.  My watch alarm sounded at 0530 as it does every day.  I shut it off.  As I do every day.  At 0615 I peered at the clock thinking, I need to get up.  I don&#8217;t do this every day.  I&#8217;m late, I should be heading out the door.  I don&#8217;t have time to walk Hershey.  <\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, I got up, put on my PT gear, let Hershey outside (we had frost warnings last night), fed him, and packed my lunch.  I loaded my BDU uniform and gym bag (efficiently packed the night before) into the back seat.  I opened the garage door, loaded myself into the driver seat, and backed out of the garage to the street, closing the door behind me.  I headed for work.  <\/p>\n<p>Approximately 30 minutes later I&#8217;m there.  I park.  I open the back door to pull out my stuff.  I realize my lunch is on the kitchen counter.  I growl.  I go into work.  Our admin assistant has finished her workout and is drinking her coffee at her desk.  I growl in her doorway.  Tell her I&#8217;m grumpy, and go to my office and unload office stuff from my gym bag.  I head upstairs, deciding to drop my stuff in the bathroom and head down the hall and do a minimal workout.  As I head out the door, I spy a student&#8217;s blue uniform.  I stop.  I realize I&#8217;ve brought the wrong uniform. I growl again.  I pick up my stuff, go downstairs, growl my observation to our admin.  She says she noticed that but decided not to tell me (understandably, since I&#8217;d just growled at her; I&#8217;d never done that before).  I must go home.  I tell her I&#8217;ll be back.  I drop my BDU uniform and gym bag in my office&#8211;at least I have tomorrow&#8217;s uniform ready.  I begin to leave the building.  <\/p>\n<p>I turn around.  With my luck I&#8217;ll get stopped, and I need my driver license.  I finally make it out of the building, across town, and am in the shower at home by 0730.  Dressed in the proper uniform and with my lunch, I am on the road returning to work by 0800.  I arrive back at the office, ready for today by 0830.  Wasn&#8217;t that fun?  Oh yeah, now that most people have arrived, I have to park on the far back 40 and hike in.  Not a big deal, it&#8217;s the only exercise I&#8217;ve really gotten today; it just adds insult to injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today did not begin well. My watch alarm sounded at 0530 as it does every day. I shut it off. As I do every day. At 0615 I peered at the clock thinking, I need to get up. I don&#8217;t do this every day. I&#8217;m late, I should be heading <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/a-dark-comedy\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}