{"id":12393,"date":"2025-12-19T03:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12393"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:01:54","slug":"fri-dec-19-2025-perilously-close-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/12\/19\/fri-dec-19-2025-perilously-close-to-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri. Dec. 19, 2025 &#8211; perilously close to Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm and wet again.   60s and 70sF with really high humidity.   Yuck.  Blue sky helps, but it&#8217;s still unpleasantly damp.  And it will continue for a few days yet.  Probably.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the day on my computer and phone.   Turns out I hit my deductible and so all medical expenses until the end of the year are paid for (subject to copays and other limits.)  This is the opposite of what I thought happened, ie, I wouldn&#8217;t make it so save discretionary treatment until next year.  It would have been nice to know last month.  I was able to schedule one office visit this year.  I haz a sad because I have a half dozen to schedule.  Still checking things out, no bad thing lurking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also poking at my auto insurance both for an old claim, and for the possible new one.   Fortunately Ranger parts are pretty cheap, and widely available.   If I decide to fix my  trucks axle, no matter who funds it, it should be doable and in the &#8216;reasonable to do&#8217; range for me.<\/p>\n<p>This means I didn&#8217;t get anything else done.  Other than laundry. So I&#8217;ve got all that still to do.   <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always something, and there&#8217;s always more.<\/p>\n<p>Stack.  Because the alternative is actually working on stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm and wet again.   60s and 70sF with really high humidity.   Yuck.  Blue sky helps, but it&#8217;s still unpleasantly damp.  And it will continue for a few days yet.  Probably.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the day on my computer and phone.   Turns out I hit my deductible and so all medical expenses until the end of the year are paid for (subject to copays and other limits.)  This is the opposite of what I thought happened,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/12\/19\/fri-dec-19-2025-perilously-close-to-christmas\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Fri. Dec. 19, 2025 &#8211; perilously close to Christmas &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":[41,15,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393","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=12393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12394,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/revisions\/12394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}