{"id":164,"date":"2006-12-11T04:41:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=659&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2006-12-11T04:41:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T12:41:40","slug":"3-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2006\/12\/11\/3-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"3+ hours."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me about three hours plus some &#8220;miscellaneous&#8221; minutes to put together my elliptical\/exercise bike. It&#039;s not because I&#039;m <i>wetaded<\/i> and I haven&#039;t a clue where things go &#8212; it&#039;s because I lacked the elbow grease to freakin&#039; tighten this one nut&#8230; Actually, my sister and I worked together for the first 2 hours and she had to leave me to it cos she needed to get ready for church last night.<\/p>\n<p>\nLooking back, I think it took us that long because: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1: I didn&#039;t go through all the parts (which I normally do when putting something together like this) and didn&#039;t notice that the included a freakin&#039; multi-purpose wrench for *all* the nuts and bolts. I ended up using the mechanic socket set my younger brother gave to me last Christmas. That would&#039;ve been a LOT easier to reach those darn bolts;<\/p>\n<p>2: I didn&#039;t really eat lunch, nor did I quench my thirst at any point in those two hours as I was practically embroiled with this elliptical that hunger and thirst were not even considered; I only realised it was so when I arrived at church (and missed choir practise) with a throbbing headache and a growling empty stomach. I suppose my blood glucose level hadn&#039;t dropped that low, though, as I wasn&#039;t having my usual spells of vertigo when truly starving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, the <i>bliddy<\/i> thing is fixed and after supper last night, I went on a short and slow &#039;run&#039;&#8230; just testing the thing out in case I didn&#039;t tighten something enough and it might as well be me that breaks the darn thing before someone else gets hurt! It&#039;s all secure, though; I mean, the bike&#039;s fine. Perfect for running\/riding indoors cos it started to rain!<\/p>\n<p>\nHURRAY for the rain! This means, the local mountains must be getting some snoooooooow! ^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me about three hours plus some &#8220;miscellaneous&#8221; minutes to put together my elliptical\/exercise bike. It&#039;s not because I&#039;m wetaded and I haven&#039;t a clue where things go &#8212; it&#039;s because I lacked the elbow grease to freakin&#039; tighten this one nut&#8230; Actually, my sister and I worked together for the first 2 hours  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2006\/12\/11\/3-hours\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}