{"id":373,"date":"2004-10-08T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2004-10-08T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T10:02:00","slug":"lonely-lunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Lunches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now that Steve has left IBM, Caroline has left the Nordics, and I am integrated into the Swedish and Nordic organisations, it means that I don&#8217;t have anyone to lunch with when I come into the Kista office.  I don&#8217;t mind lunching by myself on occasion.  In fact, it can be quite nice to have some peace and quiet.  But now I am back to where I started in September 2002, really all by myself in the Nordics.<\/p>\n<p>I think that to counter that sense of being by myself, I better start going into the downtown Stockholm office more often sense there are a lot of international assignees there that I can work along with as well as being close to the Swedish organisation.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I will remember to stay happy and positive.  After all, I have no shortage of work that I need to get done and it will certainly help me to be isolated a bit in order to get my deliverables ready.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and while I have not been posting pulbically on a regular basis, I just got back from the UK where I had spent 4 days and the week before I spent the Friday (overnight, so leaving on Satruday) in Oslo.  Just so you know what has been up with me &#8212; it&#8217;s been loads of work! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Hugs to all, Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now that Steve has left IBM, Caroline has left the Nordics, and I am integrated into the Swedish and Nordic organisations, it means that I don&#8217;t have anyone to lunch with when I come into the Kista office. I don&#8217;t mind lunching by myself on occasion. In fact, it can be quite nice to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lonely Lunches<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}