{"id":96411,"date":"2012-09-15T23:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T03:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/96411\/inevitable-good-news\/"},"modified":"2012-09-15T23:56:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T03:56:49","slug":"inevitable-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/96411\/inevitable-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"the inevitable good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">so I just got back from the gig with the Hired Guns&#8230;it was a fair amount of fun, and I made a bunch of money&#8211;which I need&#8230;AND (almost a Month ago!) I got the food stamps back, a MONTH ago&#8230;but I didn&#8217;t know it&#8230;well I know it NOW&#8230;AND I might be working on election day as an election &#8220;judge&#8221;&#8211;I believe it pays $180 bucks&#8230;it may take awhile to actually GET the money, but I&#8217;ll get it eventually&#8230;I&#8217;ve done it before, it was grueling then but I THINK I can still do it&#8230; <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">the &#8220;roomie &#8221; and I went to a yard sale (uh oh)&#8230;For $25 *I* got a &#8220;new&#8221; boxspring and mattress, financed by the roomie of course&#8230;I paid her back already; the gig paid $100 and I earned every dollar&#8230;a complete stranger helped me tie the boxspring to the roomie&#8217;s vehicle (and it was his rope) and in fact the sellers threw in the boxspring for free&#8211;I wasn&#8217;t sure I needed it, but I think it IS a bit studier than the one I&#8217;ve been using all these years&#8230;his name was Brian I believe; he was\/is a Musician&#8230;he bought the keyboard that was for sale&#8230;after the yard sale, the roomie and I went to Poolesville&#8211;it was Poolesville Day&#8230;I ran into two <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">friends<\/span> people I used to hang out with&#8230;She was nice, he not all that much&#8211;very weird, and I&#8217;m having trouble letting go of that&#8230;but for now Life is Good&#8230;I don&#8217;t yet know if my job situation has changed; I didn&#8217;t hear from anybody&#8230;oh well&#8230;I doubt if I&#8217;m gonna last NINE hours today&#8230;I might have to take a long Lunch and\/or a lotta breaks to be able to say I was there for more than five hours&#8230;my Boss sez 9&#8230;I MIGHT be able to stay for 7&#8230;but I will feel guilty about &#8220;exaggerating&#8221; how long I was there today&#8211;another reason to dislike working on Sundays&#8230;still, Life is Good&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;put in six and a half hours at work&#8211;kinda surprised I&#8217;m not dead yet&#8230;didn&#8217;t make it to 7&#8230;didn&#8217;t &#8220;exaggerate&#8221; how long I was there either&#8230;I&#8217;m OFF next Sunday and my Boss is gonna work it for me&#8230;I have a gig with MSR&#8230;(whispers) it&#8217;s a &#8220;tip jar gig&#8221; but the &#8220;roomie&#8221; doesn&#8217;t know that&#8230;a guy I knew and played in a band with back in the early 70s requested my &#8220;friendship&#8221; on Facebook&#8230;dunno why he did, but I said &#8220;yes&#8221;&#8230;to\u00a0 be honest, I don&#8217;t expect anything to happen, but who knows?<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so I just got back from the gig with the Hired Guns&#8230;it was a fair amount of fun, and I made a bunch of money&#8211;which I need&#8230;AND (almost a Month ago!) I got the food stamps back, a MONTH ago&#8230;but I didn&#8217;t know it&#8230;well I know it NOW&#8230;AND I might be working on election day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}