{"id":8163,"date":"2005-05-05T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/05\/05\/i-find-your-lack-of-excuse-disturbing.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:51:38","slug":"i_find_your_lac-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/i_find_your_lac-2.html","title":{"rendered":"“I find your lack of excuse disturbing …”"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you plan on playing hookey from school or work on Thursday, 19 May (Sith Day) … the Geek Squad has excuse letters<\/a> for you. Not to mention something very plausible you can download to your Outlook calendar …<\/p>\n

Of course, this would have been handier, oh, for something a couple of weeks earlier … like, tomorrow. Except that, even if I were considering skipping work because of the anticipated late night<\/a>, the fact that the CIO is going to be in town probably makes that a Bad Idea …<\/p>\n

(via Julia<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you plan on playing hookey from school or work on Thursday, 19 May (Sith Day) … the Geek Squad has excuse letters for you. 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