{"id":1928,"date":"2010-11-17T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2010-11-17T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T13:47:54","slug":"the-indignities-will-continue-until-your-head-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2010\/11\/the-indignities-will-continue-until-your-head-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"The indignities will continue until your head explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More potential client fun<\/strong><br \/>\nApparently the potential client tried to email me on Monday but the message was <acronym title=\"I smell bullshit.\">&#8220;returned as undeliverable.&#8221;<\/acronym> Despite this, it was urgent that I call them&#8230;at 12:40 p.m. Eastern time. Apparently these people have never heard of lunch.<\/p>\n<p>So after replying to some on who is on Pacific time ASAP both by email and with a voicemail message (tip of the nib to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimcarson.com\">Jim<\/a> for the Google voice invite), I still hadn&#8217;t heard back from them by 6 p.m. On the west coast.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and did I mention they want another call to discuss how I&#8217;m going to do the work? Nor did they send the access information I need to actuall get into their systm to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Did I also mention that they didn&#8217;t even ask where they could send a signed contract?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah it&#8217;s going to be like that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legitimate excuse to avoid conference calls<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a big fan of the phone.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s got all the awkwardness of a cocktail party shrunk down into miniature.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I have an excuse to stay off it as much as possible: I can&#8217;t really open my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s rubber band time with the braces.\u00c2\u00a0 While I&#8217;m wearing the &#8220;elastics&#8221; as my dentist so lovingly refers to them, I can really only get my teeth apart just enough to wedge in a straw so I can stay hydrated.\u00c2\u00a0 Guess I have to do my best not to get sick again any time in the next two months otherwise I&#8217;ll sufficate on my on snot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More potential client fun Apparently the potential client tried to email me on Monday but the message was &#8220;returned as undeliverable.&#8221; Despite this, it was urgent that I call them&#8230;at 12:40 p.m. Eastern time. Apparently these people have never heard of lunch. So after replying to some on who is on Pacific time ASAP both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nablopomo-2010","category-thoughts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}