{"id":1054,"date":"2013-08-31T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:33:18","slug":"lucky-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/lucky-thirteen","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once more, it&#8217;s been ten days times ten, and here we are in yet another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=6 color=\"#FF6600\"><b>DAY<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/>100<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Alright. So Round 13 is just about in the books. Let&#8217;s review.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1, fourth day on job. Yay employment!<\/p>\n<p>Day 9, &#8220;Screw work. Let&#8217;s build a fort!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Day 19, worst sushi ever&#8230; but with Victoria! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/smile2.gif\" title=\"Yay, Victoria!\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 25, fun day of baseball, pizza, and video games with little brother!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDay 28, what is that thing hanging outside the walk-in freezer anyway? &#8220;If you stop moving, it starts chirping. If you still don&#8217;t move, it starts screaming. And they have to come drag your ass out.&#8221; &#8230; Gulp.<\/p>\n<p>Day 30, charades party!<\/p>\n<p>Day 41, potluck! I&#8217;ll bring pasta!<\/p>\n<p>Day 42, I saw two &#8216;splosions from the soccer field.<\/p>\n<p>Day 43, same work, different facility. Also, Nationals!<\/p>\n<p>Day 44, aw crap, apparently it is possible to be pulled over for speeding on I-270. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/irked.gif\" title=\"Hmm\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 45, meh, I wasn&#8217;t going to, but I guess I&#8217;ll run for NYRA board again.<\/p>\n<p>Day 49, ah, a training, lots of those little man-down devices. Holy crap, LOUD!<\/p>\n<p>Day 50, calling ageist sushi restaurant to protest ageism!<\/p>\n<p>Day 59, I&#8217;m being pulled over again?! What the hell for? &#8230; Tail-gating. Really? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/dubious.gif\" title=\"WTF?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 64, I have to&#8230; go into the walk-in freezer. Gulp&#8230; Okay, I can do this&#8230; LIKE A BOSS<\/p>\n<p>Day 66, off to WES to confront them about their ageism in a roundabout way&#8230; LOL I scared them a little bit. Sweet. Anyway, I think I&#8217;ll head to Brookside&#8230; OMFG what happened to the lake?!?! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/frown2.gif\" title=\"Awww.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 69, a whole damn morning in the walk-in freezer! It&#8217;s braving the Canadian winter all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Day 72, it&#8217;s not Annual Meeting day but it&#8217;s close. First meeting some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snipeme.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"post\">Snipers<\/a> in Baltimore for lunch. Then back to DC for dinner with Alexander, Kathleen, Pam, and Victoria! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/biggrin2.gif\" title=\"Fun!\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 76, LOL Kathleen&#8217;s drunk. Therefore, ageism seems to keep requiring prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Day 79, so this lovely snake really wanted to meet Kathleen and the sheep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Day 80, at a women&#8217;s art museum whose work should be renamed &#8220;what is this I don&#8217;t even&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Day 81, up at damn four in the morning! To take Kathleen to airport. Off to San Francisco for her! &#8230; I&#8217;m so tired.<\/p>\n<p>Day 82, this might be a good place for the Annual Meeting. Though it&#8217;ll be pricy. Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Day 88, oh, this is a much better spot for the AM. Also FREE.<\/p>\n<p>Day 92, ha! I got to turn on one of them man-down things. It&#8217;s not that scary. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/smile2.gif\" title=\"Ah.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 98, okay, this Annual Meeting webcam thing is being tested out and seems like it&#8217;ll work.<\/p>\n<p>Day 99, grabbing some snacks and getting ready. Also, snow crab legs.<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Day 100. Also, Annual Meeting Day! Though not a lot of people expected. Got to MLK Library and waited for arrivals, rather slow morning trying to drag a youth rights conversation along, then Chipotle for lunch, then back to library into reserved meeting room. And webcam transmission is a go! Five NYRAnians in DC connected with seven more via webcam. What fun! Then Chinese food for dinner, and then all done rather earlier than usual. But it happened.<\/p>\n<p>And here I am afterward, recapping the past three and a half months, balacing family, friends, organization, and new job.<\/p>\n<p>As these 100 Days of Summer draw to a close, I wonder what will become of all of these things and more. As I do each year. Wonder what new things will be encountered, with four months left to go for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>So with that, the 100 Days of Summer is done for the year, to return on May 24, 2014, in whatever shape the world is in then.<\/p>\n<p><i>This has been <b>Day 100<\/b> of the <b>100 Days of Summer, Round 13<\/b>.<\/i> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Summertime!\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once more, it&#8217;s been ten days times ten, and here we are in yet another&#8230; DAY 100 Alright. So Round 13 is just about in the books. Let&#8217;s review. Day 1, fourth day on job. Yay employment! Day 9, &#8220;Screw work. Let&#8217;s build a fort!&#8221; Day 19, worst sushi ever&#8230; but with Victoria! Day 25, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/lucky-thirteen\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lucky Thirteen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-100-days-of-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}