Some days it doesn’t pay to get up in the morning.<\/p>\n
On Monday, I had a one-day office temp gig downtown. As I was heading over there on my bike, I realized that my car was parked in a rush hour tow-away zone. But it has been on several occassiona before, and I’ve never gotten a ticket, so I just crossed my fingers and went to work.<\/p>\n
The job itself wasn’t too bad, plowing through a word processor version of a deposition and making it match up to a printed version, although I had to inspect every word, because the word processor version was an earlier draft than the final draft printout. Anyway, like I said, not excessively dreary.<\/p>\n
But when I got home, I found that my car had<\/em> been ticketed, and it was for $100! The only good news was that the car had been tagged for towing, but the truck hadn’t arrived yet. So I just re-parked it legally and saved myself another $100 fee and a huge headache.<\/p>\n But since I’ll net only about $80 for the office work, I’m actually down $20 for the day. I would have been better off not going to work. Well, actually, I would have been better off re-parking my car legally in the first place. Won’t make that mistake again.<\/p>\n Of course, it’s mainly a problem because I’m so underemployed at the moment. But at least there will be a little relief: I’m field producing for Old Homes Restored<\/em> tomorrow, at a home in Ellicott City. Should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some days it doesn’t pay to get up in the morning. On Monday, I had a one-day office temp gig downtown. As I was heading over there on my bike, I realized that my car was parked in a rush hour tow-away zone. But it has been on several occassiona before, and I’ve never gotten a ticket, so I just crossed my fingers and went to work. The job itself wasn’t too bad, plowing through a word processor version of a deposition and making it match up to a printed version, although I had to inspect every word, because the word processor version was an earlier draft than the final draft printout. Anyway, like I said, not excessively dreary. But when I got home, I found that my car had been ticketed, and it was for $100! The only good news was that the car had been tagged for towing, but the truck hadn’t arrived yet. So I just re-parked it legally and saved myself another $100 fee and a huge headache. But since I’ll net only about $80 for the office work, I’m actually down $20 for the day. I would have been better off not going to work. Well, actually, I would have been better off re-parking my car legally in the first place. Won’t make that mistake again. Of course, it’s mainly a problem because I’m so underemployed at the moment. But at least there will be a little relief: I’m field producing for Old Homes Restored tomorrow, at a home in Ellicott City. Should be fun.<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","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":"Some days it doesn’t pay to get up in the morning. On Monday, I had a one-day office temp gig downtown. As I was heading over there on my bike, I realized that my car was parked in a rush hour tow-away zone. But it has been on several occassiona before, and I’ve never gotten…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNBEQ-S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}