{"id":10970,"date":"2024-06-01T04:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2024-06-01T00:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T04:56:40","slug":"sat-jun-1-2024-saturday-in-the-dark-i-think-it-was-a-month-to-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/06\/01\/sat-jun-1-2024-saturday-in-the-dark-i-think-it-was-a-month-to-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. Jun. 1, 2024 &#8211; Saturday, in the dark, I think it was a month to July&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to start but surely getting hot later.  Unless it&#8217;s pouring down rain.  Which is apparently a possibility.  &#8216;cuz that&#8217;s what we need today.  More rain.<\/p>\n<p>The ground is getting saturated, and the trees are falling over whenever the wind blows.   <\/p>\n<p>I started yesterday with the best of intentions, got thwarted by my own procrastination, and ended up just doing auction stuff anyway after wasting the whole morning.  Then I did some grocery shopping and loaded the truck for the BOL.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m up here, and my day will be dependent on the weather.  I&#8217;ll either clean up debris, and load the truck for a dump run, or I&#8217;ll hang out indoors while it rains.  I&#8217;m tempted to stick around if it&#8217;s storming, in case the power goes out again.  Locals say the number of outages and the length of the outages are unprecedented.  I say it&#8217;s probably the new normal for one reason or another. Some sort of automatic failover to a backup power supply is nearly at the top of the list now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure is awesome when it is intact.   Lots of ways to break it, and only so many ways to fix it.  Plan for losses.<\/p>\n<p>Stack what you need to be 80% or more of what you are now.  You&#8217;ll be better off than almost anyone else, and the 80\/20 rule of thumb says you will be maximizing your result vs effort and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Or choose a different path, but I think our choices now will be the major factor in how we live 1,2,5,and  10 years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Stack.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to start but surely getting hot later.  Unless it&#8217;s pouring down rain.  Which is apparently a possibility.  &#8216;cuz that&#8217;s what we need today.  More rain.<\/p>\n<p>The ground is getting saturated, and the trees are falling over whenever the wind blows.   <\/p>\n<p>I started yesterday with the best of intentions, got thwarted by my own procrastination, and ended up just doing auction stuff anyway after wasting the whole morning.  Then I did some grocery shopping and loaded the truck for the BOL.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/06\/01\/sat-jun-1-2024-saturday-in-the-dark-i-think-it-was-a-month-to-july\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. Jun. 1, 2024 &#8211; Saturday, in the dark, I think it was a month to July&#8230;. &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":[15,83,56,96,85,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-gardening","category-lakehouse","category-march-to-war","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970","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=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}