{"id":391,"date":"2006-10-29T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T10:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2006-10-29T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T10:38:53","slug":"idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Idiot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching QI the other night, and Stephen Fry was describing a manic depressive, who took a car completely to bits during a manic phase, putting every part on a sheet with a drawn outline on it, meticulously laying out the entire car.  And then he had a depressive phase and smashed everything up.  I&#8217;ve had several moments like that this week, some self-inflicted.  Like buying a seat using someone&#8217;s measurements that I didn&#8217;t check, and then finding out those measurements were wrong, and then having to try to get the seat returned, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And then finding out my old seat rails need to be removed again and some better ones welded in place, which meant I&#8217;d been an idiot not planning the first ones properly.<\/p>\n<p>And so on.  The latter part of the week has involved muchola frustration, as nothing seems to be fitting.  The tools I need to finish jobs off need to be ordered, and everything is a mess.  There have been delays finding parts (still waiting for the Limited Slip Diff), and I don&#8217;t have a spare gearbox or the strut-tops machined to fit.<\/p>\n<p>Or, in short, the week is summed up with the following equation:<\/p>\n<p><b>Progress = 0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching QI the other night, and Stephen Fry was describing a manic depressive, who took a car completely to bits during a manic phase, putting every part on a sheet with a drawn outline on it, meticulously laying out the entire car. And then he had a depressive phase and smashed everything up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}