{"id":1508,"date":"2013-10-09T22:21:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T03:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2016-02-06T19:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T00:47:29","slug":"my-unexpected-but-fully-paid-vacation-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/my-unexpected-but-fully-paid-vacation-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"My unexpected (but fully paid) vacation: Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my little digital journal from the government shutdown. \u00a0Today is day 7 (Wednesday Oct 9th), not counting the weekend. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/tag\/furlough\/\">Click here to see all of my government shutdown journal entries.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I got up at 9am and got caught up on my Facebook news feed. \u00a0Then I ate a couple breakfast burgers and got dressed to leave the house.<\/p>\n<p>I went to a friend&#8217;s house to help them with their home renovations that they&#8217;ve been working on. \u00a0I spent a couple hours rolling primer in the kitchen and in one of the bedrooms. \u00a0Then I cut and installed some kick panels in their kitchen. \u00a0Then I removed an old ceiling fan and installed three light fixtures. \u00a0I really didn&#8217;t need any payment for my work, but my friends bought me lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbbd.com\/MrSubmarine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Submarine<\/a>, here in Titusville. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great local joint and I highly recommend it for a quick and inexpensive lunch or dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Then I came home and showered and then went to another friend&#8217;s house\u00a0for a couple of hours for family life group. \u00a0Then I came home and promptly remembered that I was supposed to drop by the grocery store for some critical items that we had run out of. \u00a0So I hopped back in the car and took care of that errand. \u00a0Then I took the garbage and yard waste to the road.<\/p>\n<p>After that, I spent an hour or so designing and drawing out a circuit that I plan to build soon to be driven by my Raspberry Pi single board computer. \u00a0I&#8217;ll talk details about that project in a separate blog post soon. \u00a0Then I caught up on my Facebook one more time and now I&#8217;m writing this blog post.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s pretty much day seven of my unplanned furlough slash vacation.<\/p>\n<p>My to-do list had 25 items on it last night when I went to bed. \u00a0Tonight it now has 24 items on it. So I only got one official thing done today, but unofficially it was a busy and successful day for me.<\/p>\n<p>What will tomorrow hold for this furloughed government employee? Stay tuned! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Kurt<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:NASA_Government_shutdown_in_the_United_States_2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1f\/NASA_Government_shutdown_in_the_United_States_2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my little digital journal from the government shutdown. \u00a0Today is day 7 (Wednesday Oct 9th), not counting the weekend. \u00a0Click here to see all of my government shutdown journal entries. Today I got up at 9am and got caught up on my Facebook news feed. \u00a0Then I ate a couple breakfast burgers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,112],"tags":[488,486,487,36,485,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}