{"id":3533,"date":"2005-10-11T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/11\/a-few-general-updates-on-life\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:33:33","slug":"a-few-general-updates-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/11\/a-few-general-updates-on-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A few general updates on life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really done one of these in a while, so I figured it was about time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about two weeks into the new job, and it&#8217;s going pretty well. I&#8217;ve never seen myself as a salesperson, so it&#8217;s definitely taking some getting used to, but I think I&#8217;m starting to get it down &#8212; at least, being able to sell two cameras yesterday helped my confidence a bit. Cameras are probably one of the few things aside from Apple computers that I even <em>could<\/em> sell without feeling somewhat dirty afterwards, though &#8212; trying to sell something I didn&#8217;t like or care about just wouldn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are pros and cons to mall jobs. For instance, the schedules can be very flexible&#8230;which will be nice once school starts and I&#8217;m working around classes. Right now, though, while we&#8217;re re-adjusting around a new hire who didn&#8217;t work out, my expected day off today has instead become a 11am-8:30pm shift. Not a major catastrophe (I&#8217;m flexible enough right now to be able to do it, and it&#8217;s a few more hours), I just won&#8217;t get the cleaning I was planning on doing today done until later on this week.<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8212; while Prairie and I were planning on going to Alaska this Christmas, it looks like that won&#8217;t be happening after all. Initially I was planning on leaving Kinko&#8217;s in late December, spending a week or so in Anchorage over the holidays, and then getting a part-time job to go with school starting in January.<\/p>\n<p>The more-sudden-than-I-expected departure from Kinko&#8217;s and subsequent acquisition of a retail mall job just a couple months before the Christmas rush has changed our travel plans. It&#8217;s just not realistically possible to expect to be able to get much time off at all over the Christmas shopping season, so we&#8217;ll be staying here in Washington after all, and we&#8217;re looking at coming up in the summer instead. A bit of a bummer, but that&#8217;s just how things have worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, things pretty much progress as usual. My posting frequency here has certainly slowed down as I re-adjust to not just living with someone, but living with someone I&#8217;m dating. When Prairie was still living in Ellensburg we&#8217;d chat via iChat each evening, which made it very easy for me to multi-task, browsing the web and tossing posts up here while we were talking. Now that we&#8217;re both in the same apartment, I&#8217;m spending a lot less time in front of the computer (gee, imagine that!). We&#8217;re finding the balance point to make sure that we both get our respective &#8220;me time&#8221; (which, in my case, generally involves sitting in front of the &#8216;puter), but for the moment, I&#8217;m pretty much perpetually behind in my reading and keeping up with what&#8217;s going on in the world. So it goes!<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;that&#8217;s it for now. Gotta get going on that whole getting-ready-for-work thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t really done one of these in a while, so I figured it was about time. Work goes well as I get used to being a salesperson, and fun with scheduling effects everything from planned trips to Alaska to how much &#8216;puter time I&#8217;m getting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}