Ro and I recieved a stop-work order from boeing on friday. Ro is convinced that this is a temporary glitch. Then he tells me today that it’ll probably be “at least a week”. I’m glad he gets paid enough that this is not a problem for him. I, alas, do not. Fortunately, I have recieved a paycheck since the raise. So, I’m not totally screwed. <\/p>\n
Otoh, it seems that my plans for a transcontinental bike trip were fiscally optimistic _before_ this. Now they seem just plain bonkers. I’m going to attempt to get a summer internship far more vigorously. I’ll try to compromise and do an “up the west coast ride” at least to portland, maybe as far as vancouver. A major part of the expense, though, is equipment. Like a tent, sleeping bag, and by far and away the most expensive, a bike that won’t leave me hating life on the second or third day. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ro and I recieved a stop-work order from boeing on friday. Ro is convinced that this is a temporary glitch. Then he tells me today that it’ll probably be “at least a week”. I’m glad he gets paid enough that this is not a problem for him. I, alas, do not. Fortunately, I have recieved … Continue reading “Bad financial news”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}