{"id":713,"date":"2009-03-13T19:38:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T02:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=713"},"modified":"2009-03-13T19:38:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T02:38:53","slug":"temporarily-unemployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Temporarily unemployed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and loving it! <\/em>This is not a surprise nor is it a hardship; my company has enacted a furlough, which I really like much more than being laid off, so I have the next week off. At this stage in my stress level, when someone says the phrase “mandatory vacation without pay,” the only word I hear is “vacation.”<\/p>\n

I took time off over Christmas and never got to do all the things I wanted to do, so my list of things that I’m looking forward to includes some of those. My to-dos include:<\/p>\n

– Playing drums. I got a nice book of Beatles drum tabs for Christmas and never got a chance to try it out.<\/p>\n

– Reading a book. I’m almost done with Soon I WIll Be Invincible<\/em> and I am loving it. I’m gonna tear through it and dive into one of the other seven books in my pile shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

– WoW<\/em>. Duh.<\/p>\n

– Mass Effect.<\/em> I wasn’t on the right wavelength when this came out, so I played a bit and skipped it. Fallout 3 showed me that I can enjoy long RPGs, so I’m picking up where I left off.<\/p>\n

– Pure, Peggle, Unreal Tournament III <\/em>and a whole mess of other games I never got around to completing.<\/p>\n

– Finishing the next Palette-Swap Ninja song. It’s close and it’s mostly in my court, so I hope to have a release out by next week.<\/p>\n

– Songwriting. I have taken the last few months to really think about what I want to do and I’ve given myself permission to fail. So I am setting myself a goal of three songs — not necessarily recorded, but written and performable if Kat asks. I have a lot of partial ideas and little riffs and I am happy to have this opportunity to put them together into cohesive wholes.<\/p>\n

– Watching some movies and TV shows that I have missed.<\/p>\n

– Working on two secret projects that I’ve been chipping away at for months now. No better time, really.<\/p>\n

Technically, I suppose I could try to score some freelance work…but why create more hassle? I’m going to be plenty busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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