{"id":11993,"date":"2025-07-17T04:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=11993"},"modified":"2025-07-17T01:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:11:14","slug":"thur-july-17-2025-if-wishes-were-horses-wed-all-be-eating-steak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/07\/17\/thur-july-17-2025-if-wishes-were-horses-wed-all-be-eating-steak\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur. July 17, 2025 &#8211; if wishes were horses we&#8217;d all be eating steak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forecast says, clear but with something blowing in from the Gulf of America.  It was mostly clear and really hot yesterday.  There was a bit of cloudiness to the northwest, but metro area all the way down to NASA was clear.  Did I mention it was really hot?  Getting a cooling rain in the day is something I kinda got used to.<\/p>\n<p>I spent all afternoon doing pickups.  Drove a whole lot in a really big figure eight.   I was in Seally, Cypress, Webster\/crystal lake (NASA), Pasadena, and just north of downtown before returning home.   Filled up the truck.  Moved a bunch to the &#8220;take to BOL&#8221; pile, still have a bunch to go through.   I looked at one invoice and it really was more &#8216;wants&#8217; than &#8216;needs&#8217;.   There was some medical stuff, but nothing major.  I will be pulling back a bit in the next couple of weeks, unless it&#8217;s really helpful stuff, and really cheap.  More solar, gubs, defensive stuff, or food would all be helpful.   Craft supplies for the kids would not.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll do one pickup that got missed earlier in the week, and one that I got to a little too late to actually pickup.  The missed one was a new auction, so they kept the stuff for me.  Turns out I never got the email with the invoice or pickup instructions.   It&#8217;s happened before with other auctions.  Sometimes the management software just pukes.   The rest of the day will be spent at home doing home stuff.   I might show D1 how to use the pressure washer so she can wash &#8220;her&#8221; car.  And maybe I can get her to wash mine too.  Probably not.   <\/p>\n<p>Time to do a little work on improving my situation.   Stacks are good for the day.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forecast says, clear but with something blowing in from the Gulf of America.  It was mostly clear and really hot yesterday.  There was a bit of cloudiness to the northwest, but metro area all the way down to NASA was clear.  Did I mention it was really hot?  Getting a cooling rain in the day is something I kinda got used to.<\/p>\n<p>I spent all afternoon doing pickups.  Drove a whole lot in a really big figure eight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/07\/17\/thur-july-17-2025-if-wishes-were-horses-wed-all-be-eating-steak\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thur. July 17, 2025 &#8211; if wishes were horses we&#8217;d all be eating steak &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-11993","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\/11993","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=11993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11994,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}