{"id":11049,"date":"2024-07-02T04:25:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=11049"},"modified":"2024-07-02T04:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:25:41","slug":"tues-july-2-2024-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/07\/02\/tues-july-2-2024-in-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. July 2, 2024 &#8211; in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot in Houston.   Hot at the BOL.  Humid.  Really humid.  More of the same with the added bonus of a possible hurricane coming later in the week.  Joy.<\/p>\n<p>Started the day at the BOL.   Did a bunch of work, but very slowly.   Then just before I was ready to leave, the shower and toilet in the master bath stopped draining.   Spent a couple of hours trying to deal with that, and ended up heading home at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take the kid to the dentist, grab my auction pickup, load up  my drain snake and drain machine, and head back up.   I&#8217;ll have part of a day to get it sorted.  I&#8217;d really rather just call someone, but since I&#8217;m home to get the fangs polished, I guess I can at least take a swing at it.  It&#8217;s why I own the machine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So this post will be very short.  I&#8217;m up late, gotta get up early, and then have a lot of driving to do followed by pulling a toilet and snaking a sewer line&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got the tools in the stacks, and the knowledge, I&#8217;d just rather not do it but sometimes you don&#8217;t get a choice.<\/p>\n<p>Stack some specialist tools.   Might come in handy.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot in Houston.   Hot at the BOL.  Humid.  Really humid.  More of the same with the added bonus of a possible hurricane coming later in the week.  Joy.<\/p>\n<p>Started the day at the BOL.   Did a bunch of work, but very slowly.   Then just before I was ready to leave, the shower and toilet in the master bath stopped draining.   Spent a couple of hours trying to deal with that, and ended up heading home at midnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/07\/02\/tues-july-2-2024-in-houston\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. July 2, 2024 &#8211; in Houston &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":[15,83,96,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049","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=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}