{"id":15571,"date":"2015-12-26T21:36:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=15571"},"modified":"2023-01-01T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:49:22","slug":"catch-up-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=15571","title":{"rendered":"Catch-up #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"image-fixer-wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">2014... unexpected things happened between August and the end of December...<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First up, in September I landed myself a job. To be fair, it was handed to me on a plate - a full-time 3-month contractor position in the TNT BICC in Ashby, where Chris works. Simple stuff really - processing requests for users wanting access to BI reporting systems, sending them their access credentials, and being the unofficial Office Joker. So, nothing new there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The next good thing was that I was given the all-clear and final discharge from the Glenfield Cardio Unit. Statins and mini-aspirins daily forever, and that was all.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By way of a celebration, me and Chris booked a November weekend away at Patterdale YHA, with the intent of bagging a few of the Wainwrights still on my to-do list. What we didn't foresee was that Rab, my trusty Octavia vRS, would suffer catastrophic and terminal oil-system failure while we were on the way there, so the weekend was abandoned, we were rescued from the dual-carriageway by the Police, and the car expired in a mess of mangled piston-rings and fried shell-bearings. R.I.P., Rab, you are sorely missed. The Kia Cee'd SW7 that I bought to replace you will never measure up.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The next good thing was corrective butt-surgery, at long last they performed the minor surgery needed to repair the damage caused by the original piles operation back in 2012.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, November wasn't too bad after all, and December was even better - TNT extended my contract by six months, which provided a little more financial security.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More soon.<\/p><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2014... unexpected things happened between August and the end of December... First up, in September I landed myself a job. To be fair, it was handed to me on a plate - a full-time 3-month contractor position in the TNT BICC in Ashby, where Chris works. Simple stuff really - processing requests for users wanting [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling-on"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15573,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions\/15573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}