{"id":12056,"date":"2025-08-12T04:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12056"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:24:01","slug":"tues-aug-12-2025-lets-try-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/08\/12\/tues-aug-12-2025-lets-try-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Aug. 12, 2025 &#8211; let&#8217;s try again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Oh my hot.   Mid 90sF in the afternoon, no breeze, but at least there was some overcast.  That&#8217;s what today will be like too, probably.<\/p>\n<p>I hid indoors.  My back was killing me.  Standing. walking. sitting, all hurt.  Eventually I got the shiatsu machine to work on it, followed by a hot shower and stretching, then more stretching.  It finally moved, and felt good for about an hour.   Not much productive happened.  I think it was caused by the time I spent standing on the sloped roof, pressurewashing.  That was very awkward and I did it for  a couple of hours.  In any case, it really hurt and I didn&#8217;t feel like doing anything more than catching up on paperwork and online auctions.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll have to do some stuff.  I&#8217;ve got a craigslist guy and an ebay guy that need more info about stuff I&#8217;m selling, so I have to go figure out the answers to their questions.   Fortunately I told them I&#8217;d get back to them on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got kid taxi, and domestic bliss to do today too.  No rest for the wicked.  Or wrest &#8216;or the wicket.  Sticky or not.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the 7th anniversary of my dad&#8217;s passing, and I miss him.  I&#8217;ve been thinking about him a lot this last week, when I wasn&#8217;t focused on the job.  His legacy is me, my siblings, our kids, and a some things he made for us.  I feel like I&#8217;ll have done pretty well if I turn out just like him.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, I&#8217;ll keep working.  And stacking.  And hoping.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Oh my hot.   Mid 90sF in the afternoon, no breeze, but at least there was some overcast.  That&#8217;s what today will be like too, probably.<\/p>\n<p>I hid indoors.  My back was killing me.  Standing. walking. sitting, all hurt.  Eventually I got the shiatsu machine to work on it, followed by a hot shower and stretching, then more stretching.  It finally moved, and felt good for about an hour.   Not much productive happened.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/08\/12\/tues-aug-12-2025-lets-try-again\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Aug. 12, 2025 &#8211; let&#8217;s try again &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056","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=12056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12057,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056\/revisions\/12057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}