{"id":10027,"date":"2023-06-27T05:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2023-06-26T23:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T03:39:53","slug":"tues-june-27-2023-real-you-think-if-i-could-afford-a-real-snake-id-be-working-in-a-dump-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2023\/06\/27\/tues-june-27-2023-real-you-think-if-i-could-afford-a-real-snake-id-be-working-in-a-dump-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. June 27, 2023 &#8211; &#8216;Real?  You think if I could afford a real snake I&#8217;d be working in a dump like this?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Hoooboyo, it&#8217;s hot.  Humid too.  Mid to high 80s for humidity.   And temps to 100F in the shade.   Brutal sun.  Yesterday, today&#8230; likely tomorrow too.   It was 86F and 88% RH when I went to bed.   <\/p>\n<p>Spent the day like I always do, planning to take over the world&#8230; nah, just riding around on machines.   I&#8217;m getting friction burns where my arms and legs touch the machines.  Between the constant jostling and the fine grit sticking to every surface, it&#8217;s like being in a rock tumbler.<\/p>\n<p>I updated my progress in yesterday&#8217;s comments.   I&#8217;m going long, as I&#8217;m not done and won&#8217;t be done today.  Or even tomorrow.  I am committed to getting everything back together before the Fourth of July weekend, which will be in 3 days.  Then I can continue tearing stuff up for the next 4 days.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, maybe the kids will want to operate the machines.  I would if I was 12.  Heck I&#8217;d jump at the chance to try running most machines at my age now.  That wouldn&#8217;t help my schedule but it would be cool to spend some time on it.<\/p>\n<p>As a side benefit, I&#8217;m now confident that I could whip up some earthworks defenses given a skid steer and an excavator.   That ain&#8217;t nuthin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Learn a new skill.  Stack up some useful things.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Hoooboyo, it&#8217;s hot.  Humid too.  Mid to high 80s for humidity.   And temps to 100F in the shade.   Brutal sun.  Yesterday, today&#8230; likely tomorrow too.   It was 86F and 88% RH when I went to bed.   <\/p>\n<p>Spent the day like I always do, planning to take over the world&#8230; nah, just riding around on machines.   I&#8217;m getting friction burns where my arms and legs touch the machines.  Between the constant jostling and the fine grit sticking to every surface,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2023\/06\/27\/tues-june-27-2023-real-you-think-if-i-could-afford-a-real-snake-id-be-working-in-a-dump-like-this\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. June 27, 2023 &#8211; &#8216;Real?  You think if I could afford a real snake I&#8217;d be working in a dump like this?&#8217; &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,96,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10028,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions\/10028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}