{"id":21218,"date":"2013-08-09T22:58:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=21218"},"modified":"2013-08-09T22:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:58:46","slug":"day-221-in-a-bit-of-a-rut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/09\/day-221-in-a-bit-of-a-rut\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 221: In A Bit Of A Rut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday lark is becoming hard. But only because I&#8217;m beginning to start thinking about work again and probably a week too soon. The thing is, I&#8217;ve never really been very good at not having structure to my days &#8211; clearly work provides that. In fact a school day provides the perfect structure for me as lessons tend to have a fixed time and I know when I need to do all the other jobs that fit around them.<\/p>\n<p>Holidays are too relaxing. Days are flying by and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m taking full advantage of them<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Pitts is getting a little wound up with my daily question of, &#8220;What are we doing tomorrow?&#8221; I do understand that, however I hate not knowing what I&#8217;m doing tomorrow. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing tomorrow by the way and it scares me a little.<\/p>\n<p>Today though was filled with little things: we visited Mrs Pitts&#8217; mum, Kit visited the nice vet lady, we found 3 geocaches, had a visit from Sarah and Tom and cleaned some parts of my car (a gargantuan job because I&#8217;m a mucky pup really).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become the August tradition that I post the updated <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Geocaching\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geocaching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">geocache<\/a> souvenir quilt thing, so here it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-9.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21219\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/day-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-9.png?fit=500%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Day 9\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-9.png?fit=500%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21219\" alt=\"Day 9\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-9.png?resize=500%2C200\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-9.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-9.png?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9th-August.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/9th-august\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9th-August.png?fit=320%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9th August\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9th-August.png?fit=320%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21221\" alt=\"9th August\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9th-August.png?resize=320%2C480\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9th-August.png?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9th-August.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a way, marking the days like this is probably not helping. It&#8217;s ramming the idea home to me that time is drifting by. I suppose these daily blogs do the same thing. I&#8217;ve said it many times before now, but it still amazes me that I am keeping this project going so far into it. I suppose that it will take something major to get me out of this habit now, although I don&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll do through 2014 yet. I don&#8217;t want to fall back into the rut of never posting though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ruts all around &#8211; a bit of a rut race (that was funnier in my head).<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.101geo.com.au\/2013\/08\/06\/31-days-of-geocaching\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/191191529_80_80.jpg?w=1165\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.101geo.com.au\/2013\/08\/06\/31-days-of-geocaching\/\" target=\"_blank\">31 Days of Geocaching<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epiphanysearch.co.uk\/blog\/geocaching-hide-and-seek-in-the-digital-age\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/43716737_80_80.jpg?w=1165\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epiphanysearch.co.uk\/blog\/geocaching-hide-and-seek-in-the-digital-age\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geocaching: hide-and-seek in the digital age<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday lark is becoming hard. But only because I&#8217;m beginning to start thinking about work again and probably a week too soon. The thing is, I&#8217;ve never really been very good at not having structure to my days &#8211; clearly work provides that. 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