{"id":7989,"date":"2024-08-15T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:22:35","slug":"day-2507-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/podcast\/day-2507-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2507: Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d remembered that buying a car was a tedious process. My experience this time has borne that out. The number of times I heard &#8220;just a couple of minutes&#8221; in the last 24 hours beggars belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I talked about getting the new vehicle, Tim Rangnow&#8217;s Rim Jumper series (I&#8217;m into book 4), and the process of discovering the Cat and rekindling my joy in writing. (Don&#8217;t get excited. It&#8217;s still just flickering along trying to catch on wet logs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ETA: I&#8217;ve been corrected regarding my Parker 45 Rollerball. While the Parker 45s originally came out in 1964, the chrome-trim Flighters started production in 1979. Whether this is an actual rollerball or a ballpoint using the rollerball refill is an interesting question. One I have no answer for. (h\/t PortlyPirate)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nlowell\/53924940244\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"#tommw 60F clear. Light breeze\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53924940244_08eda2019f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"#tommw 60F clear. Light breeze. Sunrise through the trees at the far horizon paints a golden glow over green grasses.\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4382\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7989-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2024-08\/tommw-2024-08-15.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2024-08\/tommw-2024-08-15.mp3\">http:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2024-08\/tommw-2024-08-15.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2024-08\/tommw-2024-08-15.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/?powerpress_pinw=7989-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2024-08\/tommw-2024-08-15.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tommw-2024-08-15.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d remembered that buying a car was a tedious process. My experience this time has borne that out. The number of times I heard &#8220;just a couple of minutes&#8221; in the last 24 hours beggars belief. I talked about getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/podcast\/day-2507-progress\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}