{"id":11382,"date":"2014-07-17T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T01:04:46","slug":"thursday-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11382","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So apparently there won’t<\/i> be a Long Island Railroad strike<\/a> next week after all. The governor has stepped in and forced the two sides, the MTA and the union — neither of which I’m<\/i> especially sympathetic to — to reach a settlement. I don’t know that this qualifies as the eleventh<\/i> hour, but it’s easily the ninth and some change. And while there might have been some<\/i> fun in having an excuse to work from home even more, I’m really glad the strike has been averted.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know it had been averted until I got home this evening, since I spent nearly all of my day in a training session on how to improve presentation skills. It went surprisingly well, given how little I enjoy public speaking and actually giving<\/i> presentations — both of which I had to do at the session — and I think as near as it’s possible to enjoy<\/i> that sort of thing, I did. And hey, they bought us lunch.<\/p>\n

This evening, I’m just sort of decompressing. I’ve been writing some this week, and I poked a little at the story again tonight, but I’m mostly just taking it easy. It was a surprisingly non-stressful day — well, not horribly stressful or anything — but it was all surprisingly tiring.<\/p>\n

Oh, but that sink up above got fixed, so that’s good too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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