{"id":1018,"date":"2005-02-28T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/28\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T20:05:00","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/28\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s events:<\/p>\n<p>The Good.<\/p>\n<p>My new bike has arrived at the shop so I&#8217;ll be collecting it tomorrow morning.<br \/>\nMy &#8220;spare&#8221; Atari ST arrived, it works and I&#8217;ve proved that the old disk drive I have is faulty and not my old ST.<br \/>\nThe Tornado flight sim for the Amiga&#8217;s arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The Bad.<\/p>\n<p>As I was reversing out of my drive to go and collect the ST from work I bumped into the door of a car parked the opposite side of the road. I was doing about 1-2 mph att he time as I was carefully reversing out looking for traffic and cars behind me.. However, I didn&#8217;t see the dark green Micra. Even after I&#8217;d bumped the car I couldn&#8217;t see it in any of the windows and it wasn&#8217;t until I drove forward into the driveway and got out did I see what I&#8217;d hit. It took a number of knocks on doors until I found the owner, an estate agent who was valuing my next door neighbour&#8217;s house. I gave her my details. No damage to my car but a pushed in dent on the door of her car.<\/p>\n<p>The Ugly.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I&#8217;ll not be able to leave Oxford over Easter as my colleague is going on a 3 week holiday to China. I *MAY* be able to drive down to Cornwall for a weekend over Easter, as in drive down on Good Friday and drive back on Easter Monday. Not exactly the break I usually need before the beginning of the summer term. Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s events: The Good. My new bike has arrived at the shop so I&#8217;ll be collecting it tomorrow morning. My &#8220;spare&#8221; Atari ST arrived, it works and I&#8217;ve proved that the old disk drive I have is faulty and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/28\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}