{"id":12245,"date":"2025-10-23T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:05:43","slug":"thur-oct-23-2025-like-a-rhinestone-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/10\/23\/thur-oct-23-2025-like-a-rhinestone-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur. Oct. 23, 2025 &#8211; like a rhinestone cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool getting warmer later.  A bit more cool and a bit less warm.  And the seasons slowly turn.  It was really nice yesterday.  Even in the sun it wasn&#8217;t crazy hot, although it was 90F at one point.  I like Fall.  It&#8217;s not the sweater and jacket weather I grew up with, but it&#8217;s nice when it finally gets here.<\/p>\n<p>I did stuff around the house yesterday.  That puts a pickup or two off to today or tomorrow, but it meant getting some stuff done, which is a good thing.   I did some rearranging of laundry machines, redid the dryer exhaust, and sanded and primed my drywall repairs.   Then I did some cleaning.  LOTS of thick dust under my bed.  I noticed I was coughing in my bedroom, and the dust has certainly been contributing.  Some I vacuumed, some I used the leaf blower and chased it out the door.  <\/p>\n<p>Hairballs as big as softballs are no joke, yo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s little stuff but it feels like I&#8217;m holding on to a little of the momentum.   <\/p>\n<p>Then in the late afternoon, I put out some Halloween decorations.  I actually threw away 4 inflatables that weren&#8217;t working.  I&#8217;ve had them for years, they were pretty rough looking, and they had been through at least one round of repairs, so it was time.  Still goes against my grain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to continue making progress and even accelerate what I&#8217;m doing.  I think I can crank out a high impact, medium effort task or two and get an emotional reward for doing it.  We&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll do a pickup or two, then work the list.  Maybe some paperwork first.  And I really need to go to Costco.  <\/p>\n<p>This stuff isn&#8217;t gonna stack itself.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool getting warmer later.  A bit more cool and a bit less warm.  And the seasons slowly turn.  It was really nice yesterday.  Even in the sun it wasn&#8217;t crazy hot, although it was 90F at one point.  I like Fall.  It&#8217;s not the sweater and jacket weather I grew up with, but it&#8217;s nice when it finally gets here.<\/p>\n<p>I did stuff around the house yesterday.  That puts a pickup or two off to today or tomorrow,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/10\/23\/thur-oct-23-2025-like-a-rhinestone-cowboy\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thur. Oct. 23, 2025 &#8211; like a rhinestone cowboy &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-12245","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\/12245","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=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12246,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions\/12246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}