{"id":1579,"date":"2003-08-07T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/07\/almost-there\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:47:47","slug":"almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/07\/almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost there!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nice things about my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todays.com\/\" title=\"Today's Office Staffing\">temp agency<\/a> is the way they handle vacation pay. For every 1000 hours worked, you get a week&#8217;s worth of vacation pay (which works out to roughly every six months), and they just drop the extra check into your weekly envelope.<\/p>\n<p>I got my latest vacation check today. So, adding that to what I already had saved up in my PayPal account, I now have just over \\$2000 saved for my new computer! I&#8217;m aiming for the mid-range <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powermac\/\" title=\"Apple - Power Mac G5\">Power Mac G5<\/a> (1.8GHz PowerPC G5, 512MB DDR400 SDRAM &#91;PC3200&#93;, 160GB Serial ATA &#8211; 7200rpm, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, SuperDrive &#91;DVD-R\/CD-RW&#93;) which retails for \\$2399, so I&#8217;ve only got roughly \\$400 left to scrape up, and I&#8217;ll be able to order my new computer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bout damn time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my latest vacation check today. So, adding that to what I already had saved up in my PayPal account, I now have just over $2000 saved for my new computer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}