{"id":12260,"date":"2025-10-29T04:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:25:09","slug":"wed-oct-29-2025-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/10\/29\/wed-oct-29-2025-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Oct. 29, 2025 &#8211; when first we practice to deceive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool.  Even cooler than before since a front blew in yesterday.  We got two bouts of heavy rain, but they didn&#8217;t last long.   Soaked everything twice though.  Today is supposed to be clear, and it&#8217;s still getting hot in the afternoon.  We&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get much of anything done.  I did order the doors and a set of shelves for the laundry room\/pantry project.   IKEA&#8217;s website sux the ded bunnies.  And they&#8217;re not cheap.  But it will be delivered today, sometime before noon.   That&#8217;s better than if I went to the store myself, especially since they only had the stuff in a store in Round Rock.  I&#8217;m not making a 5 hour round trip to save $30 in delivery fees.  Clearly there are some weird logistics and fulfillment issues when it&#8217;s quicker to get a delivery to my door than pick stuff up at my local store, or even the nearest &#8216;in stock&#8217; store.  Part of teh sux is that their site showed all the items in stock at my local store.  But I can&#8217;t pick them up there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I felt really weird most of yesterday to the point I went and had a lie down for a while.  I think I&#8217;m allergic to D2&#8217;s Homecoming flowers.   When I&#8217;m in the kitchen, my head feels very strange, full, buzzy, lightheaded and dizzy but not really??  And I feel better when I&#8217;m away from the bouquet.   I don&#8217;t want to throw out the kid&#8217;s flowers, but I&#8217;m pretty sure they are making me ill.  <\/p>\n<p>I did get a little cleaning done, and read for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Today though, I&#8217;ve got stuff to do while waiting for the delivery, then a couple of pickups. I should do more decorating too.  Hopefully the rain is done.<\/p>\n<p>Being part of the community is a prep.  And making things fun for the kids is too.   These are the good old times.   <\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t forget stacking either.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool.  Even cooler than before since a front blew in yesterday.  We got two bouts of heavy rain, but they didn&#8217;t last long.   Soaked everything twice though.  Today is supposed to be clear, and it&#8217;s still getting hot in the afternoon.  We&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get much of anything done.  I did order the doors and a set of shelves for the laundry room\/pantry project.   IKEA&#8217;s website sux the ded bunnies.  And they&#8217;re not cheap.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/10\/29\/wed-oct-29-2025-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Oct. 29, 2025 &#8211; when first we practice to deceive &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":[15,83,85,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260","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=12260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12261,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions\/12261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}