{"id":11167,"date":"2024-08-18T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T08:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=11167"},"modified":"2024-08-18T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T06:02:22","slug":"sun-aug-18-2024-still-plugging-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/08\/18\/sun-aug-18-2024-still-plugging-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun.  Aug. 18, 2024 &#8211; still plugging away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and humid.  The summer continues.  We had a nice Spring, with summer actually being fairly mild compared to a couple of recent years.  We haven&#8217;t had the string of 100+ degree days that we had before.  But the humidity is at saturation and it&#8217;s oppressive.  You really can&#8217;t cool down at all, even sitting still will bake your brains after a while.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the day pecking at things.  I am trying to keep moving forward, but the lure of an un-scheduled day beckoned.  And the heat was discouraging.   I did the minimum to partly unload my truck and I re-did the tarp over the remainder of stuff in the bed.  It was threatening to rain in the evening.  Never did though.   <\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll probably do the same, little things to keep moving, but nothing major.  It&#8217;s the doldrums.  I am fighting the inertia.   It doesn&#8217;t help that my neck has been hurting either, but that&#8217;s an excuse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to keep your motivation up sometimes.  The best I can offer is keep doing something, even if it&#8217;s little things.  They do add up over time.<\/p>\n<p>And keep stacking.  <\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and humid.  The summer continues.  We had a nice Spring, with summer actually being fairly mild compared to a couple of recent years.  We haven&#8217;t had the string of 100+ degree days that we had before.  But the humidity is at saturation and it&#8217;s oppressive.  You really can&#8217;t cool down at all, even sitting still will bake your brains after a while.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the day pecking at things.  I am trying to keep moving forward,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/08\/18\/sun-aug-18-2024-still-plugging-away\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sun.  Aug. 18, 2024 &#8211; still plugging away &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":[15,83,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167","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=11167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11168,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions\/11168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}