{"id":35,"date":"2006-07-17T11:29:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-01-22T05:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T13:53:48","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now for Something Completely Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I figured I should write about something other than bowling for once&#8230; don&#8217;t worry all of my avid fans, that blog entry will be coming on Wednesday or Thursday after league.<\/p>\n<p>But what to talk about?\u00a0 My life is quite inconsequintial.\u00a0 I get up at 4:30 AM, come to work at 5:00 AM, eat lunch around 9:00 AM, come back to work, leave around 2:00 PM.\u00a0 This happens every Monday through Friday, week in and week out, month after month.\u00a0 And I enjoy what I do most days, but it&#8217;s always the same.<\/p>\n<p>If I were less risk adverse or had a really good idea, I&#8217;d love to start my own business some day.\u00a0 Of course, for now, I&#8217;m not willing to give up the steady paycheck for an unknown result.\u00a0 The ideal would be to be able to retire now and enjoy life, but unless I win the Megabucks slot, that isn&#8217;t going to happen (I&#8217;d have to play Megabucks to even have a chance at it).<\/p>\n<p>I think we are all meant for so much more than this rat race that we are all stuck in.\u00a0 To paraphrase from Office Space, people aren&#8217;t meant to live like that, it&#8217;s just not natural<\/p>\n<p>So, until I find that really awesome idea, have the courage to carry it through, or somehow enjoy a windfall of buckets of money, I&#8217;ll continue to do my job, try to do it well, and keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day all and work hard, but not too hard. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/x.myspace.com\/images\/blog\/smileys\/calm.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I figured I should write about something other than bowling for once&#8230; don&#8217;t worry all of my avid fans, that blog entry will be coming on Wednesday or Thursday after league.<br \/>\nBut what to talk about?\u00a0 My life is quite inconsequintial.\u00a0 I get up at 4:30 AM, come to work at 5:00 AM, eat lunch [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}