{"id":2480,"date":"2005-08-02T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T10:53:30","slug":"towering-above-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2005\/08\/02\/towering-above-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Towering Above the Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davebushe\/30715176\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/30715176_4e8568ad0f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davebushe\/30715176\/\">Towering Above the Rest<\/a>  <br \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Bah.<\/p>\n<p>Stressed already and it looks to only increase. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mainly good stress, the type that I&#8217;m good at channeling into getting things done. Lots going on, lots to do but it&#8217;s all under control so far. I wonder if I&#8217;m being tested a bit, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me at all but a new project has ended up with me and it&#8217;s fairly sketchy in everyway. It&#8217;s not impossible by any means, it&#8217;s just going to take a whole lot of digging and working things out. That is what I do now tho. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how having the word &#8216;manager&#8217; in a title changes things. I&#8217;ve found in the week or so I&#8217;ve been using my new title I get a much better reaction from new people I have to deal with. Phone calls and emails are returned noticeably quicker. This is a good thing but it does suck that it has to take that to kick something off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now booked off on another course and my credits are building up nicely for some actual accreditation.  My laptop is on order and I&#8217;m pretty satisfied with how I have been handling things so far.<\/p>\n<p>So work is all good. That&#8217;s a nice change.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work&#8230;not so good. I guess it&#8217;s times for the downs after the ups of the past few weeks. I&#8217;m running a little bit back into a rut again and I&#8217;m not sure how to climb out of it. There are lots of things going on and lots of friends around for drinks every night but that&#8217;s not really what I want.<\/p>\n<p>I am absolutely certain of what I do want, more than I ever have been but it is of course easier to know what you want than to go out and get what you want. That&#8217;s some pearl of wisdom eh?<\/p>\n<p>But enough of that. Flickr got a little cooler today with the addition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/explore\/\">Explore<\/a> and more so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/explore\/interesting\/\"> Interestingness<\/a>. Good good stuff. I really really want that new camera so I can actually start to contribute something of some level of quality.<\/p>\n<p>I finally started watching the first season of <i>Battlestar Galactica<\/i> and it&#8217;s allright. Enough with the shoving sex into everything tho please while yes I do appreciate the form of Number 6, she&#8217;s really fucking irritating. The whole Baltar visions thing just annoys the hell out of me. Cast is pretty decent, it&#8217;s not my Apollo and Starbuck but it&#8217;s allright I guess. Another 7 or 8 episodes saved up and I&#8217;ll be on track with the US. The joys of nothing airing during the summer months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I re-read <i>Preacher<\/i> over the past few days. It&#8217;s one of those things that I know is good, I know I like it a lot but I never quite remember how good it is or how much I like it until I go and read it again. Good good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>My tip for new music this year remains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisbattle.com\/\">Battle<\/a>. <i>Tendency<\/i> is a choon!<\/p>\n<p><i>I mean everything<br \/>that falls out my mouth<br \/>when I throw my arms around you<\/i><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towering Above the Rest Bah. Stressed already and it looks to only increase. It&#8217;s mainly good stress, the type that I&#8217;m good at channeling into getting things done. Lots going on, lots to do but it&#8217;s all under control so far. I wonder if I&#8217;m being tested a bit, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me at all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2005\/08\/02\/towering-above-the-rest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Towering Above the Rest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}