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After spending 25 hours straight getting my part (the GUI) of our “power outage management” software through a gruelling “performance test” for Chicago’s electricity utility provider, my boss said “I don’t wanna see you for a week”. Ha, cool!<\/p>\n

So we spent the week swimming, ice skating, making cookies, making new “Age of Empires” scenarios, getting back to our new “alternative” movie theater, reading, and playing cards past the midnight hour hoohoo! It was a great, relaxing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending 25 hours straight getting my part (the GUI) of our “power outage management” software through a gruelling “performance test” for Chicago’s electricity utility provider, my boss said “I don’t wanna see you for a week”. Ha, cool! So we spent the week swimming, ice skating, making cookies, making new “Age of Empires” scenarios, … Continue reading Week off outta nowhere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":172,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/warming-up-for-scotland\/","url_meta":{"origin":34,"position":0},"title":"Warming up for Scotland…","author":"m","date":"June 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I confirmed our reservations, and vegan food availability, at all of the places we'll be staying in Scotland. 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