{"id":2124,"date":"2012-10-19T03:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T03:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/19\/2012-10-19-smile-html\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T03:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T03:13:49","slug":"2012-10-19-smile-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/2012-10-19-smile-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFriends,<\/p>\n

The way the day started was perfectly fine, save the alarm going off at 4:00. Cozy flannel sheets, breakfast with Mme. Puppy Dog, getting on the road a little late but making up the deficit and getting to work on time. I wasn’t even too concerned when my first press release went out with bizarre characters mucking up the formatting. At least I was ticking off boxes on my bloated end of the year task list.<\/p>\n

It’s a poorly kept secret that I applied for the newly relaunched automobile columnist position at the Orange County Register a few months ago. This is my dream job, the sort of gig you’d drop everything to do. I dreamed about it. I wrote stories in my head about taking an Aventador<\/a> to Albertson’s<\/a>. Stories about canyon carving in a Corolla<\/a>. And stories like the distributor post from a few days ago to explain why these may be the best times so far for reliability and economy in our cars and trucks.<\/p>\n

I found out today that I didn’t get the job over the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then the phones at work went down.<\/p>\n

Then the live Verizon tech support lady told me in a chat window over the internet that I’d need to file a report over the internet.<\/p>\n

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Then my colleagues forgot how to work stuff. A global, universal tech stroke<\/a>, if you will.<\/p>\n

So what do you do with a plate of late-afternoon picnic potato salad like that? Do you smile in the host’s direction while choking it down? How much worse could the stomach ache get?<\/p>\n

I took a different tack and wrote jokes about moon monsters instead.<\/p>\n

It’s therapeutic.<\/p>\n

– bob<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friends, The way the day started was perfectly fine, save the alarm going off at 4:00. Cozy flannel sheets, breakfast with Mme. Puppy Dog, getting on the road a little late but making up the deficit and getting to work on time. I wasn’t even too concerned when my first press release went out with … <\/p>\n

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