{"id":113,"date":"2002-04-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2002-04-16T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-16T09:00:00","slug":"still-wishing-for-more-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/16\/still-wishing-for-more-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Wishing for More Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, my excuse for not writing in such a long time is that hardly anything has happened since my last entry. No new job prospects. I haven&#8217;t had a date since dinner and movie with Cherrod a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>I have been pretty busy freelance producing for <i>House Detective,<\/i> which is good, of course. And I have about another six weeks to go on that. But that may be it for <i>House Detective<\/i>. HGTV hasn&#8217;t renewed past the fourth season, so who knows what I&#8217;ll be doing come summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington got the final word on its insurance programs. Kaiser has dropped it&#8217;s POS plan, as expected. And the Optiumum Choice plan will cost almost $500 a month, so that&#8217;s pretty unaffordable. Especially since I just paid my taxes. I owed Uncle Sam and the District of Columbia $3,400, which I&#8217;ll be paying off on my credit cards for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh. I need to start thinking again about what I can do for a living that has benefits and a regular check. Whether or not it&#8217;s in television. Who&#8217;d have thought that in terms of career and finances, I&#8217;d be in worse shape at 40 than I was a 35?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, my excuse for not writing in such a long time is that hardly anything has happened since my last entry. No new job prospects. I haven&#8217;t had a date since dinner and movie with Cherrod a month ago. I have been pretty busy freelance producing for House Detective, which is good, of course. And I have about another six weeks to go on that. But that may be it for House Detective. HGTV hasn&#8217;t renewed past the fourth season, so who knows what I&#8217;ll be doing come summer. The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington got the final word on its insurance programs. Kaiser has dropped it&#8217;s POS plan, as expected. And the Optiumum Choice plan will cost almost $500 a month, so that&#8217;s pretty unaffordable. Especially since I just paid my taxes. I owed Uncle Sam and the District of Columbia $3,400, which I&#8217;ll be paying off on my credit cards for quite some time. Ugh. I need to start thinking again about what I can do for a living that has benefits and a regular check. Whether or not it&#8217;s in television. Who&#8217;d have thought that in terms of career and finances, I&#8217;d be in worse shape at 40 than I was a 35?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2001-2002"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This time, my excuse for not writing in such a long time is that hardly anything has happened since my last entry. 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