{"id":674,"date":"2003-10-23T23:29:37","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T07:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-02-06T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T19:38:33","slug":"office-trouble-whats-that-foreigner-doing-making-all-that-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/674","title":{"rendered":"Office Trouble: What’s that foreigner doing making all that noise?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve already said the office here is quiet. Well… today, I was stuck on a problem at work and getting very sleepy. I had the cheap plastic stylus that came with my zaurus in my hand, and I guess I let it fall. Woops.<\/em><\/p>\n

*plick plick* At contact with hard floor, my frightened stylus managed to leap into hiding under the massive cabinet at which I sat. Damn. I proceeded to my hands and knees to peer at the underbelly of this metal beast. I couldn’t see it. I grabbed my cell phone and used it’s light to try and cut through the darkness, but I still couldn’t see it. Fine. It *must* be under there, so I cleverly decide to pull the bottom drawer of the cabinet out. It slides with ease, and comes out very far. I could see the floor through the open drawer, but still no stylus. Well, I figured it would just be easier if I completely removed the drawer and then put it back after I’d found what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

having a delicious snack in the drawer you most frequently open is dangerous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A little wiggle here, a small tug there, and the large metal drawer came out with ease. The new problem was this: any time I made contact with the drawer and the cabinet, a hollow clattering of thin metal on thin metal echoed throughout the office – possibly, the whole floor. Great. Oh well, it should be easier to find the stylus now. Nope. I double checked with my light, once more, but no luck. I eventually gave in to the realization that it may not have landed there, and found it behind the cabinet amongst a bunch of black cords. *sigh*<\/p>\n

I spent a good 10 minutes trying to put that friggin drawer back together, the whole while causing a cacophony of noise. Of course, because this is Japan, nobody looked at me or asked me what I was doing – they’re saving my face. heh. I would have just laughed about it if they had asked me what I was doing. In fact, I almost wish someone HAD asked me so as I could explain why I was making so much noise on the floor with a big metal drawer removed from its cabinet.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I was tired at work, today.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve already said the office here is quiet. Well… today, I was stuck on a problem at work and getting very sleepy. I had the cheap plastic stylus that came with my zaurus in my hand, and I guess I let it fall. Woops. *plick plick* At contact with hard floor, my frightened stylus managed… Continue reading Office Trouble: What’s that foreigner doing making all that noise?!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[78,210],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-japan","tag-japanjournal","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-aS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}