{"id":484,"date":"2014-05-01T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T04:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:00:22","slug":"i-suppose-i-owe-you-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/i-suppose-i-owe-you-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I Suppose I Owe You One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while. \u00a0How you doin&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while longer since I wrote anything of general utility. \u00a0Most of my spew has been of a peculiar flavor spawned of my bile. \u00a0Give me a break, friends&#8211; the strongest urge to write is to pull in those who ken what you pen.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare for anyone to truly know you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I&#8217;m speaking to a likewise rare audience here. \u00a0For the majority of humanity, their 12-piece &#8220;Age 2+&#8221; puzzle of a psychological composition ain&#8217;t so hard to put together, comprehend, snap\/tear\u00a0into double the components, and re-assembled wearing mittens\u00a0with one&#8217;s mind&#8217;s eye closed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with a good woman. \u00a0A foxy woman.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got the girls back. \u00a0I gave up custody, but it was for their sake, and it was with caveats that made it worth separating that purely contractual\u00a0issue from the rest of the divorce bullshit. \u00a0Truly, if I felt they were in danger with their mother, I&#8217;d take them regardless of whatever the Law may have entered into the public record.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck the Law.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I made the deal. \u00a0I have no respect or concern for the Law&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; only for my girls.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of that. \u00a0Life otherwise? \u00a0 I&#8217;ve been at my current job for a year now. \u00a0Well, it will have been a year\u00a0in one minute&#8211; and once this is posted. \u00a0I was contracted as a &#8220;Java developer&#8221;. \u00a0I hadn&#8217;t coded Java since its showcase presentation was an\u00a0applet of &#8220;Duke&#8221; doing his jack-hammer &#8220;Under Construction&#8221; stint and garish water-reflection applets on homepages.<\/p>\n<p>However, since I am a hacker by nature and by heart and by tripping fingers over the proper mechanical cherry-key-board&#8211; I can adapt. \u00a0Scored pretty high when asked to do so. \u00a0The sadness is that the task to which I was assigned was so vaguely defined as to\u00a0be impossible to &#8220;finish&#8221;, so &#8230; I&#8217;m viewed as a slacker.<\/p>\n<p>I have a Google Forms record of every day I&#8217;ve worked since I started. \u00a0I don&#8217;t fuck around. \u00a0I *want* to work. \u00a0I *live* to work.<\/p>\n<p>I live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; which brings us to the status-quo.<\/p>\n<p>I live.<\/p>\n<p>Good night, and good luck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while. \u00a0How you doin&#8217;? It&#8217;s been a while longer since I wrote anything of general utility. \u00a0Most of my spew has been of a peculiar flavor spawned of my bile. \u00a0Give me a break, friends&#8211; the strongest urge to write is to pull in those who ken what you pen. It&#8217;s rare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[61,3,62,89],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","tag-angst","tag-depression","tag-it-is-what-it-is","tag-raw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}