Just some rambling on a slow day.<\/p>\n
I was flattered to notice I’m up on Better Bibles Blog<\/a>‘s blogroll. See my Rants category for Bible and\/or Theology-related posts. I’ve been rather desultorily trying lately to go through an Attic Greek textbook (Mastronarde), in order to widen my Greek reading, but so far have been to scatter-brained to stick with it much.<\/p>\n Work is slow today because the project I’ve been working on is stalled because I can’t get in contact with a systems administrator who’s a continent away and runs one of the servers I need. I’ve been calling him every half hour, with no success. A fitting episode in a project which has been, to say the least, bizarre and demoralizing. I got pulled in fully four days before the notional completion date, to integrate some third-party software which turned out to require a whole whack of infrastructure about which I had no information, and no idea how to get any.<\/p>\n My (there is no such thing as stupid) questions were met with not even lack of information, but actively contradictory information and what I can only describe as intentional lacunae (“I feel I was denied critical, need-to-know, information<\/b>!”). And when reporting time came around, it felt like I was hung out flapping in the breeze. Not even a lack of support; it felt like active hostility.<\/p>\n Luckily this is not my regular project area or manager, so I hope to go back to normality sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just some rambling on a slow day. I was flattered to notice I’m up on Better Bibles Blog‘s blogroll. See my Rants category for Bible and\/or Theology-related posts. I’ve been rather desultorily trying lately to go through an Attic Greek textbook (Mastronarde), in order to widen my Greek reading, but so far have been to … Continue reading “Tuesday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}