{"id":8624,"date":"2020-07-06T21:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:26:09","slug":"welcome-to-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=8624","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well … we are now half way through what is arguably the worst year ever. And there looks to be no end in site. Ugh.<\/p>\n

Some things that have happened recently:
\n– Sat around in a really black depression for several days.
\n– Saw A&A for takeout pizza and fire pitting.
\n– Saw a few friends (less than 10) for a short, socially distanced July 4th cookout.
\n– Sat around the house a lot.<\/p>\n

The biggest news of the past week is that I formally submitted my resignation letter to the local theater. The entire staff got laid off at the end of March because of the COVID-19 induced shutdown. So, I have technically not been an employee since then. Last week I made it official that I won’t be returning as their graphic designer when they re-open (God knows when that will be). Today I went and turned in my keys and handed over all the art files. This has been a decision that’s been a long time coming (nearly five years). I have been feeling burnt out with the work and pissed off with the lack of appreciation from the higher ups. That being said, it’s been a depressing few weeks working up the nerve to actually go through with it considering I have been doing art for them for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n

But, in fun “I spend too much money on shit considering I have officially quit my second job” news, I managed to find a copy of the 5 CD\/1 DVD Super Deluxe Edition<\/strong><\/a> of Prince’s 1999<\/em> album<\/strong><\/a> for retail out of Canada. This is the second time that Sonic Boom Records<\/strong><\/a> in Toronto has come through. This set came out last November, went immediately out of print, and is already selling for $200+ on the secondary market. So, I consider this a real score as I got it for $70 shipped (the price tag is Canadian dollars).
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Well … we are now half way through what is arguably the worst year ever. And there looks to be no end in site. Ugh. Some things that have happened recently: – Sat around in a really black depression for several days. – Saw A&A for takeout pizza and fire pitting. – Saw a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-2f6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}