{"id":1380,"date":"2006-04-05T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-04-05T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T21:04:24","slug":"old-men-and-optimistic-tendencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Old Men and Optimistic Tendencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over to Lancing for 8am, nice sunny day, bit chilly though and after a knock on the first customers door I was confronted by a small, scrawney ninety odd year old man, with purple stripey legs, in his underpants clutching a zimmer frame on wheels asking me if I was his home help!<br \/>\n&#8220;No,&#8221; I explained, &#8220;I&#8217;m here to repair your boiler,&#8221; at which point be mumbled something, adjusted his false teeth and invited me in before shuffling off to his bedroom muttering something along the lines of,<br \/>\n&#8216;I suppose I better get up then.&#8217;<br \/>\nAs I entered the bungalow I was engulfed by a heavy atmospheric presence of ammonia with a thick aftertaste that I can&#8217;t quite describe, it was quite obvious to me this man was in need of a visit from his home helper. As it happens, he was a very jolly fellow who suffered from severe vertigo and can&#8217;t stand for long without falling arse over tit, I happily agreed that I understood his condition and was very sympathetic, the difference being I need to drink 10 pints of Strongbow first!<br \/>\nI left feeling quite sorry for the old fart after stories of his days when he used to cycle round the country, i did say to him, &#8220;Wise move staying away from the cliff edges,&#8221; but he didn&#8217;t get it, he just nodded, smiled and then made a strange squelchy noise&#8230; Not being sure exactly which part of his body actually made the sound, I decided time to go, and off I went.<\/p>\n<p>Finished early, 1.30pm locally too so home in no time. Basically, apart from backing up loadsa crap junking up my PC and having a look at some antenna stuff, I did sod all for the rest of the day. I feel I am able to organise things better, albeit small things, but something as simple as creating seperate accounts on my PC for kids (as they dont let me near it when they&#8217;re here), backing up my files and a bit of a tidy in here makes me feel I have things more under control. Which is a good thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over to Lancing for 8am, nice sunny day, bit chilly though and after a knock on the first customers door I was confronted by a small, scrawney ninety odd year old man, with purple stripey legs, in his underpants clutching a zimmer frame on wheels asking me if I was his home help! &#8220;No,&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}