{"id":3547,"date":"2026-04-10T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:17:41","slug":"wind-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/wind-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind me up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We saw this at Centerra today, had to laugh and stop to take a quick picture. It reminded me of Nik&#8217;s old pink <strong>&#8220;Barbie Bug&#8221;<\/strong>.  Ha ha!  Remember that thing, oh man &#8211; the girls had so much fin with that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nikki drove the wheels off of that one, and then still sold it for a bit of money too.  Another young girl who just loved the Barbie bug&#8230;  I am sure it had a good second, third, fourth life with her too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder if it is still going?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bugs are actually pretty good, a new engine every so often and the keep going.. ha ha, well at least that is the way the old ones were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot tell you how many VW engines I have replaced over the years!!!  It was certianly more than &#8216;a few&#8217; for sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahhh the good ole days, a complete engine swap in about 5 hours.  I remember!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 100 \u2014 Celebrate Day 100<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consistency is rare.<br>You\u2019re doing what most won\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Johnstown Technology Partners<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Colorado&#8217;s Premier Computer Repair Experts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast, honest, and reliable IT solutions for Johnstown and beyond. 30+ years of expertise in computer repair and data recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw this at Centerra today, had to laugh and stop to take a quick picture. It reminded me of Nik&#8217;s old pink &#8220;Barbie Bug&#8221;. Ha ha! Remember that thing, oh man &#8211; the girls had so much fin with that! Nikki drove the wheels off of that one, and then still sold it for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}