{"id":4120,"date":"2007-11-13T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/13\/im-a-winner\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:01:06","slug":"im-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/13\/im-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5770,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cyberscholar.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200321112340\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cyberscholar.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 14:15:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 18:06:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 18:06:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>My job handles product training through a training site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberscholar.com\/\" title=\"Cyberscholar\">Cyberscholar<\/a>, which offers prizes as one of the incentives for completing various training modules. I&#8217;ve been good-naturedly grousing (well, some days more good-naturedly than others) that while I&#8217;ve been doing Cyberscholar training for quite some time now, even going beyond what&#8217;s required to do training on other products (some of which we sell, some that we don&#8217;t), I&#8217;ve yet to win a prize. This was occasionally even more frustrating when I&#8217;d hear about other local employees who&#8217;d won prizes after doing just a small handful of modules, while I&#8217;d been plugging my way through for most of the two years I&#8217;ve been with the company.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4119\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/canon_chair.jpg\" alt=\"Canon Chair\" align=\"right\" \/>However, my streak has ended! I&#8217;m now the <del>proud<\/del> amused owner of a Canon Rebel (&#8220;Official Camera of the NFL&#8221;) folding chair!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I shoot Nikon, not Canon, the only football I have any interest in is the kind that&#8217;s played with a <em>round<\/em> ball, and it&#8217;s not nearly as impressive as the 30D that another employee won, or the 58&#8243; HD LCD TV that another employee won&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but I won! And hey, free chair, right? Always good to have in the trunk when Prairie and I take one of our little camping mini-breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I can hope that this is the end of my unlucky streak, and there&#8217;ll be a high-end camera, TV, or other such goodie heading my way in <em>no<\/em> time! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My unlucky streak has ended! I&#8217;m now the (proud?) amused owner of a Canon Rebel (&#8216;Official Camera of the NFL&#8217;) folding chair!<\/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-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","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=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}