{"id":10124,"date":"2013-08-03T21:38:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2013-08-03T21:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T02:39:39","slug":"my-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10124","title":{"rendered":"My First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9357133727\/\"  title=\"pic05972.gif by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5338\/9357133727_782ef6f3ae.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" height=\"353\" alt=\"pic05972.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a presentation to a bunch of strangers (by strangers I mean people who are outside of our organization) for the first time via webinar. I hadn&#8217;t done that before. Thankfully my topic was something I was very familiar with &#8212; our quality assurance program at work (my area of responsibility).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9370629330\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2835\/9370629330_2ea0948ff3.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently I did a good job because I got this message from one of the First Quartile folks later that day. My work stresses me out sometimes, but it also makes me feel good. Compliments are always nice.<\/p>\n<p>Last week was pretty much &#8220;presentation week&#8221; for me because the day before the First Quartile Community Insights Conference webinar I had to present at our Customer Care Quarterly Management Meeting also. Presentations are not my strength so I was pretty stressed about it, as you can imagine. So stressed that Brian and I found ourselves at the Nifty Nut House over our lunch break later that week.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9364695345\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7306\/9364695345_76b40e0648_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While there I decided to get some treats for my team.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/9364687375\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7429\/9364687375_5d6a07835d.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They all got little bags of chocolate rocks because they&#8217;re rock stars. Yeah, I&#8217;m nerdy like that. Have you ever had the chocolate rocks at Nifty Nut House? They&#8217;re yummy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a presentation to a bunch of strangers (by strangers I mean people who are outside of our organization) for the first time via webinar. I hadn&#8217;t done that before. Thankfully my topic was something I was very familiar with &#8212; our quality assurance program at work (my area of responsibility). Apparently I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[180],"tags":[2149,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}