{"id":23,"date":"2007-12-21T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/wordpress\/20071222\/last-day-at-work-for-2007"},"modified":"2007-12-21T23:25:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:25:05","slug":"last-day-at-work-for-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20071221\/last-day-at-work-for-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Day at Work for 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I knocked off at 4:00pm today but we actually opened the wine and Hoegaarden beer since 1:00pm on what we affectionately call the stand-up meeting. We never employed Extreme Programming seriously – but of all the techniques – it’s the stand-up meeting that persisted.<\/p>\n

I came home to an empty house. The kids and the wife are out doing Christmas shopping, party and work. I was lazy to do anything – let alone prepare my own dinner – so I just skipped that and grazed on whatever was in the fruit basket. After a while I felt like heading to the shops – but ‘Mary Kate’,<\/em> my alto sax, is set in the couch, inviting me to play. Hmmm – empty house – I can play as loud and make all the mistakes – play silly – experiment – enjoy playing for once uninhibited. I picked it up and immersed myself to the joy of music – it really didn’t matter. To the walls around me it may sound awful but in my mind and heart – the music is wonderful. I can still play – still roll my hands across 2 1\/2 octaves of keys and play what was singing in my head.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow – I’ll again indulge on another favourite – I’ll be pumping my bike tyres and heading to the Olympic Park to join friends to cycle 30km to Botany Bay and have a big breakfast. It’s bacon, egg, sausages and toast without the added guilt. Then cycle back 30km after, going through the scenic route of our beautiful city …. ah … such is life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knocked off at 4:00pm today but we actually opened the wine and Hoegaarden beer since 1:00pm on what we affectionately call the stand-up meeting. We never employed Extreme Programming seriously – but of all the techniques – it’s the stand-up meeting that persisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-journal-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}