{"id":10580,"date":"2013-06-25T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2013-06-25T22:09:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:09:38","slug":"tuesday-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10580","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember that company scavenger hunt<\/a> I took part in last month? The one my team won, even though I lost them somewhere between the first and second clues? The one that landed me a couple of free beers, a golden whistle (that’s right), and bragging rights even though I did practically none of the work and only a fraction of the running that my teammates did? (I mean, I gave ten bucks to charity to participate, but that’s it.)<\/p>\n

Yeah, today it got me free pizza for lunch.<\/p>\n

I’d forgotten that there was a pizza party for the winning team, assuming of course I ever knew it, and the scavenger hunt itself was over a month ago. But it was a nice lunch, and good pizza, and an unexpected treat. Of course, when my teammates (and the HR person joining us) all started comparing their cell phones, I could only say, “Well, I have an iPhone on order<\/i>. Because I do; I upgraded last Friday, finally ditching my current phone (which I have never much liked) for something shiny and new. But because I couldn’t get the website to accept in-store pickup after it had located the store for me — it’s right around the block from the house, almost literally — I’ve had to wait for it to be shipped. And so I didn’t have a phone to take out and compare. If the pizza party had happened on Thursday<\/i>…well, that might have been another story.<\/p>\n

Other than that, it was a busy day. I didn’t quite finish doing the thing I desperately hoped I would finish, but I think tomorrow I can put it to bed. Which will be nice.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, this evening I finished reading Neil Gaiman’s short novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/i>. As I noted on Twitter, it may be the strangest, truest, and best thing he’s ever written. I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n

And that was…wait, it’s seriously only Tuesday? Gah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember that company scavenger hunt I took part in last month? The one my team won, even though I lost them somewhere between the first and second clues? The one that landed me a couple of free beers, a golden whistle (that’s right), and bragging rights even though I did practically none of the work … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,28,227,52],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-personal","tag-technology","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10581,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}