{"id":358,"date":"2008-08-03T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-08-03T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T02:06:29","slug":"whats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/whats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are having fun! That is what is up.\u00a0 This is the fastest summer on record for us.\u00a0 Kayaking, sailing, work on the boat, closing in on retirement, job instability and church.\u00a0 all this leads up to no blogs.\u00a0 Here is the plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The boat has a secure winter storage.\u00a0 There are many weeks of retirement work on the boat for this winter.\u00a0 Actually it will probably extend into the summer with a late launch.\u00a0 Then I need some crew to help get Inspiration to the North Passage for the summer which will probably be on anchor or mooring.<\/p>\n<p>The work scene is underlined by the lack of sensitivity for senior citizens who make too much money and have opinions.\u00a0 This is causing difficulties in a Matrix organization that incents Project Managers to use the lowest cost labor that can get the job done in their opinion.\u00a0 Of course, I am not the cheapest labor and I have opinion formed by years of experience.\u00a0 The Matrix organization answer is to deny those people work on the premise that the job bid price will not support cantankerous nabobs.\u00a0 I might add the Pm&#8217;s are about 35-40 years old and have little sensitivity or training in group dynamics or other essential skills for senior managers.\u00a0 The high senior manager answer is to control finances extremely well &#8211; this I give kudos to the Corporation.\u00a0 The Pm;s are pressed into a situation of high pressure and what do you suppose gives?\u00a0 Us aged anachronism&#8217;s of the past!\u00a0 So much for age discrimination that is alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>What else is happening?\u00a0 I am on vacation this week and plan to kayak with Barry tomorrow on a stretch of Pigeon Creek\u00a0between Howe and Scott.\u00a0 We will take a chainsaw and brush cutters and open a reasonable navigable channel so normal people can kayak or canoe the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are having fun! That is what is up.\u00a0 This is the fastest summer on record for us.\u00a0 Kayaking, sailing, work on the boat, closing in on retirement, job instability and church.\u00a0 all this leads up to no blogs.\u00a0 Here is the plan. \u00a0The boat has a secure winter storage.\u00a0 There are many weeks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}