{"id":13989,"date":"2017-03-18T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=13989"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"best-laid-plans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/best-laid-plans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/calendar-january-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8152\" src=\"http:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/calendar-january-2015-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"calendar, planning, routine\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>The Rescue group I work with (<a href=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/phases-canine-rescue\/\">Steele Away Home<\/a>) was supposed to have a medical day yesterday (Friday) so I requested to be off work that day &#8212; since I have two dogs that needed to be spayed or neutered.\u00a0 But the mobile vet clinic would not start, so the medical day got rescheduled to next Thursday. I work Thursday &#8212; I&#8217;m off Monday and Wednesday.\u00a0 Monday I&#8217;m supposed to take Marie&#8217;s car to the mechanicn place.<\/p>\n<p>Today I asked around work if anyone would swap days with me. Bobby said he needed to be off Monday because his wife has a doctor&#8217;s appointment and he needs to stay home to take care of their 3 kids. That would complicate getting Marie&#8217;s car to the mechanic, but we could drop it off Sunday, so I agreed to the swap.\u00a0 That means an extra trip into town and leaving her car in the parking lot overnight, but &#8230; it would be there so they could get started on it Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home there was a message on the answering machine. It was from Bobby. His wife&#8217;s appointment is Wednesday this week, not Monday as usual: the first time that&#8217;s <em>ever<\/em> happened! So he&#8217;d rather swap Wednesday for Thursday not Monday for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when things just work out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rescue group I work with (Steele Away Home) was supposed to have a medical day yesterday (Friday) so I requested to be off work that day &mdash; since I have two dogs that needed to be spayed or neutered.&nbsp; But the mobile vet clinic would not start, so the medical day got rescheduled to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/best-laid-plans-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Laid Plans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-13989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21382,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989\/revisions\/21382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}