I got a thank you sent to my work address for helping with the commencement this past spring. \u00a0It was a form letter. \u00a0\u00a0Which is fine, except that it said it was for the fall commencement. \u00a0And it took 3 weeks to get through the campus mail. \u00a0And the envelope had the \u201cverboten\u201d logo of Ohio\u2019s Polytechnic University – i.e. getting rid of their old envelopes.<\/p>\n
Sigh. \u00a0I think they could have skipped it, frankly. <\/span><\/p>\n I also got a thank-you for another project. \u00a0This one included a hand-written card and, for some reason, a scratch off lottery ticket. I dutifully scratched off the ticket and found that I had won!<\/span><\/p>\n 3 dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n Not really worth the effort of turning it in, I guess. I had worked with my boss\u2019s boss on the project, so I took a picture of the winning ticket and emailed it to him with a note about how we won. \u00a0And that I owned him $1.50. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n He emailed me back with a photo of his<\/em> winning ticket – for $15.00 – and said that he owned me. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pretty funny.<\/span><\/p>\n I don’t quite get the “scratch-off lottery ticket” as a gift and though I was a little disappointed in the form letter, I\u2019m a firm believer in thanking people – especially when they go out of their way. \u00a0Seems like the right thing to do and I think we need to do more of that.<\/span><\/p>\n So, thank you for reading my blog. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got a thank you sent to my work address for helping with the commencement this past spring. \u00a0It was a form letter. \u00a0\u00a0Which is fine, except that it said it was for the fall commencement. \u00a0And it took 3 weeks to get through the campus mail. \u00a0And the envelope had the \u201cverboten\u201d logo of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}