{"id":438,"date":"2011-07-26T11:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=438"},"modified":"2011-07-26T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:50:14","slug":"where-have-i-been-for-the-last-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2011\/where-have-i-been-for-the-last-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Have I been for the Last Few Months?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Well I have been neglecting my blogging and updates to the idostuff website for a long time. It&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t been doing stuff, quite the contrary. I&#8217;ve been doing loads and always had plenty of excuses not to write anything up.<\/p>\n<p>Excuses are always close at hand, excuses are easy, excuses are what we use as justification for not doing what we know we should. I could write down all the excuses and then go through them one at a time, arguing with myself. I&#8217;m sure if I did with a rational, detached head I could mark them all down as being LAME. There can only be one real reason, I HAVE NOT SET MY MIND TO THE TASK.<\/p>\n<p>I have recognised the trap I had fallen in to. So here&#8217;s me decapitated, being rational for a change and making a start a start. It&#8217;s nice day and I&#8217;ve sat out side with the lap top, out of my office for a change of environment. I&#8217;m away from my diary with the it&#8217;s lists of things I could be filling my time with. This is going to be cathartic, my mind is on the task<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty for me to write up, I might be a bit sketchy for know and fill in the detail if I think it needs it. What can I cover?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the woods \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/440\">Bridge building,<\/a> Green woodworking <a href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/444\">making a gate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/449\">Surveying, Formulating a plan.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/452\">Windows \u2013 Yes there is progress<\/a>, How are\u00a0the plans are coming along?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/458\">Trike<\/a> \u2013 My escape to the Garage, Overview.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/454\">Little jobs<\/a> \u2013 I bet someone will be interested in how to make an oversized enter key! Or how to fix a troublesome combi boiler! Or or or or<\/li>\n<li>The front door \u2013 with it&#8217;s stained glass<\/li>\n<li>How the <a href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/456\">Idostuff site<\/a> is doing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should keep me going for while, even if I am resisting the temptation to add all the detail.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have been neglecting my blogging and updates to the idostuff website for a long time. It&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t been doing stuff, quite the contrary. I&#8217;ve been doing loads and always had plenty of excuses not to write anything up.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[175,176,174],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-personal-development-stuff","category-i-do-random-stuff","tag-bloggers-block","tag-motivation","tag-writers-block"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}