{"id":11501,"date":"2025-01-01T04:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T09:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2025-01-01T02:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T07:29:26","slug":"wed-jan-1-2025-a-whole-new-year-ahead-of-us-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/01\/01\/wed-jan-1-2025-a-whole-new-year-ahead-of-us-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Jan. 1, 2025 &#8211; A whole new year ahead of us, every day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and kinda damp in Houston.  But supposed to still be clear.  Florida meanwhile is getting some cold air, and who knows what the temps there will be?   I&#8217;ll find out though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Did my mileage for taxes.  Did a bunch of personal care and grooming.  I don&#8217;t usually do it all at once, but I did yesterday.  Did laundry too.  Even folded my clean clothes.  In other words, lots of domestic bliss, not a lot of other stuff.  <\/p>\n<p>Today will be a bit of packing, a bit of cleaning, and a bit of getting ready to go out of town.  I&#8217;m headed to Florida to see mom and sibling&#8230;  Wasn&#8217;t my idea, but maybe it&#8217;s for the best.  I really don&#8217;t like holiday travel.  And I don&#8217;t like all the rushing and activity we&#8217;ve had this break.  But my likes don&#8217;t really matter much at the moment.  I&#8217;ll suck it up and soldier on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking ahead though, and trying to decide what I can do a few more &#8220;long form&#8221; posts on.  If and when I start poking at the solar, that should be good for a few posts.  Maybe I should refine my milk crate food storage system, or look at redundancy in cooking\/water\/heating\/cooling\/energy etc.  Or maybe I should turn some focus on my physical condition, and look at improving that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what will come, but I&#8217;ve been slacking in the actual content department.  I&#8217;m going to consciously try to change that this year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to keep repeating the basics, even if new people come to prepping all the time; and some of the more advanced stuff will  either seem too narrowly applicable or too far out&#8230;and I&#8217;m not an expert by any means.   <\/p>\n<p>The default will be more of the same.   Hopefully that is enough.<\/p>\n<p>And there will be stacking, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to New Year, like every day, and yet somehow different.  Let us hope and pray, work hard, and work smart, to make it a good year.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for joining me here.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and kinda damp in Houston.  But supposed to still be clear.  Florida meanwhile is getting some cold air, and who knows what the temps there will be?   I&#8217;ll find out though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Did my mileage for taxes.  Did a bunch of personal care and grooming.  I don&#8217;t usually do it all at once, but I did yesterday.  Did laundry too.  Even folded my clean clothes.  In other words, lots of domestic bliss, not a lot of other stuff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/01\/01\/wed-jan-1-2025-a-whole-new-year-ahead-of-us-every-day\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Jan. 1, 2025 &#8211; A whole new year ahead of us, every day&#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":[15,83,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501","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=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}