{"id":96,"date":"2002-04-30T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2007-05-24T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T15:53:26","slug":"the-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/96","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I'll admit it... I'm not the best <em>waiter<\/em> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I'm most comfortable moving right along, getting things done and feeling like I'm making progress even if I'm not doing a lot of really important stuff. I like cleaning up the House - it's not the most exciting thing, but it beats being bored. Don't get me wrong, there's a time for relaxing and I wish I had more 'down' time, but while I'm at work, I'd rather be busy.<\/p>\n<p>If I'm not busy, I think about all the time I could be spending on another activity, project, <strong>thing<\/strong>, that I could be working on. It's almost like I'm trapped - I can't leave work and I can't do anything other than work at work. When there's nothing to do, it leaves large gaps in the day and those are pretty hard to fill.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I can catch up on a little surfing, but that's not something I'm going to do for hours on end - I just don't have that much fun following links. I could read a book, but that's a little obvious, and I don't want the folks I work with to think \"Hey! Why does he get to do that and I have to slug it out!\" Well... the answer is clear - I've gotten everything done that I can do and I'm waiting for others to complete their work before I can move on. But that's still a confrontation that I'd rather avoid if at all possible.<\/p>\n<p>So I wait.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, things will pick up but until then, it's a painful thing<br \/>\nto do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ll admit it&#8230; I&#8217;m not the best waiter in the world. I&#8217;m most comfortable moving right along, getting things done and feeling like I&#8217;m making progress even if I&#8217;m not doing a lot of really important stuff. I like cleaning up the House &#8211; it&#8217;s not the most exciting thing, but it beats being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cube-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}