{"id":11492,"date":"2024-12-28T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2024-12-28T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T06:36:27","slug":"sat-dec-28-2024-counting-down-kinda-running-out-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/12\/28\/sat-dec-28-2024-counting-down-kinda-running-out-the-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. Dec. 28, 2024 &#8211; counting down, kinda running out the clock&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably be clear and cool to start the day, warming to mid 70s F.  Yesterday in Houston ended with overcast and 57F.  A bit cooler but even wetter at the BOL.<\/p>\n<p>Did my Dr visit.  Prescription was wait and see, should be ok, recheck in 6 weeks.  Clear on the glaucoma, cataracts, and detached retina, so that was good news.  I&#8217;ve had a huge list of eye issues over the years, but I tested 20\/20 yesterday despite some lingering issues.  <\/p>\n<p>Did my pickups on the way to the BOL.  Took a different route for the first half of the trip.  Much more rural, two lane county roads, and a lot of changing from one road to another.   Not doing that in the dark again.  I&#8217;m sticking to the straightest path.  If it weren&#8217;t for turn by turn directions, I&#8217;d never have made it.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll probably try to finish up the walls in the dockhouse.  Then I will work the list.<\/p>\n<p>Later, I&#8217;ll have  a fake beer and some good eats.<\/p>\n<p>These are the good old days, and I&#8217;m stacking as much as I can.   You should too.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably be clear and cool to start the day, warming to mid 70s F.  Yesterday in Houston ended with overcast and 57F.  A bit cooler but even wetter at the BOL.<\/p>\n<p>Did my Dr visit.  Prescription was wait and see, should be ok, recheck in 6 weeks.  Clear on the glaucoma, cataracts, and detached retina, so that was good news.  I&#8217;ve had a huge list of eye issues over the years, but I tested 20\/20 yesterday despite some lingering issues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/12\/28\/sat-dec-28-2024-counting-down-kinda-running-out-the-clock\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. Dec. 28, 2024 &#8211; counting down, kinda running out the clock&#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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,96,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11492","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\/11492","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=11492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11493,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}