{"id":452,"date":"2009-01-08T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2009-01-08T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:07:19","slug":"im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands were great. We were on a <a href=\"http:\/\/gapadventures.com\/dossier\/2008\/SEGL\">tour with G.A.P. Adventures<\/a> that had us on four of the islands over the course of ten days. We had two days in Quito beforehand, and did a separate tour from Quito to Cuenca and back afterward. More on that later, after I sort through my photos. I think I took about 2000 pictures on the trip &#8230; I had two cameras with me, one with two 1GB cards and a 512MB card, the other with a 2GB card and a 1GB card. <em>Lots<\/em> of pictures to triage.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that the day before we flew down, I was informed that my first day back from vacation (Monday the 5th) would be my last day at the job. If they&#8217;d let me stay until Tuesday the 13th, that would have marked my 23rd anniversary with the company. Ah, well.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m looking for work, preferably in the embedded software field (I&#8217;m not ready to be a Wal-Mart greeter yet!), and also preferably on the northwest side of Denver. Yesterday&#8217;s priority: convincing the cat that she&#8217;s not entitled to continual attention, even if I <em>am<\/em> home all day. Luckily, I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/fasterthantheworld.com\/2006\/10\/resume_writing_tips_the_four_s.html\">good resource for resum\u00e9 cover letters<\/a> &#8211; I <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=33\">wrote about it<\/a> some time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands were great. We were on a tour with G.A.P. Adventures that had us on four of the islands over the course of ten days. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-its-all-about-me","category-trying-to-make-a-buck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}