{"id":1917,"date":"2005-02-17T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T03:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2005-02-17T22:30:24","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T03:30:24","slug":"office-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"Office Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m all full up on vacation time at work so I’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, that I need to actually use some of it. The boss said something about avoiding burnout… As if I didn’t feed on the fumes of overwork and stress, transmuting it through some alchemical process into the essence of productivity<\/b>! It’s an alchemical process so powerful that it can only be used for good or evil. I dare not reveal the technique to the general public, but I can let you know that, in addition to stress, one of the other ingredients is coffee.
\n
\nSo it was a very relaxing day today. In the immortal words of Peter Gibbons<\/a>, “I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be.”<\/p>\n

That’s not entirely true, of course. My folks are down for a visit, so we tooled into town so I could show off the spacious new office and my immense desk. We kidnapped my Wife from her workplace and took her out to lunch. I got copies of the CDs from the Tanzanian choir guys who’ve been staying with my folks for the last four weeks. And just a bit earlier this evening we headed into my dad’s old hometown for a historical society meeting about a multiple-great uncle of mine.<\/p>\n

It’s kind of a strange feeling to realize that I’ve got ancestors who are bona fide historical figures. Sure, it’s just on a local level, but it’s still odd to realize that there are actual historians who aren’t related to me who are interested in stuff that my family did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m all full up on vacation time at work so I’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, that I need to actually use some of it. The boss said something about avoiding burnout… As if I didn’t feed on the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}