{"id":12578,"date":"2026-03-04T03:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:57:11","slug":"wed-mar-4-2026-so-caffeine-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/04\/wed-mar-4-2026-so-caffeine-good-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Mar. 4, 2026 &#8211; so, caffeine.   Good stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm and moist again.   Sunlight optional.  It got into the 90s yesterday if you were somewhere sunny.  It was a bit more reasonable for MARCH in the shade, or light overcast.  About a decade ago, I remember being at the Rodeo, and having to recharge my cool vest about 4 times.  I&#8217;ll take this mild but slightly warm weather.<\/p>\n<p>What did I actually do yesterday?  Couple of pickups took me to Missouri City, and to The Woodlands.   It wasn&#8217;t a very eco-friendly day given the amount of driving I did.  Got some stuff for the kids, the wife, the BOL, and for me though.   And it was cheap enough that the gas and tolls weren&#8217;t an issue.   The time used kinda sucked though. <\/p>\n<p>Then I went grocery shopping.  No yellow tags, no mark downs, nothing I wanted on the clearance shelves.  I think it&#8217;s the first time I didn&#8217;t even save a dollar on my bill.  I bought soda and fresh veg, snacks for the kid&#8217;s lunch, and that was about it.  Still came to almost $200.  <\/p>\n<p>My lottery tickets were &#8220;not a winner&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m gonna do another pickup, and move stuff around.  If it isn&#8217;t raining.  There were some dark clouds in the overcast yesterday depending on time and where I was.  No moisture from the sky hitting my windshield, but a bit of threatening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kids have some standardized testing today so it&#8217;s an &#8220;early release&#8221;day.  They used to say &#8220;early dismissal&#8221; but now everyone slips and says &#8220;early release.&#8221;   Yeah, it&#8217;s just like a prison, except the going home at the end of the day part.  Our schools were originally designed to provide factory workers.  Now they provide inmates.<\/p>\n<p>Stack something that is a treat.  You&#8217;ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm and moist again.   Sunlight optional.  It got into the 90s yesterday if you were somewhere sunny.  It was a bit more reasonable for MARCH in the shade, or light overcast.  About a decade ago, I remember being at the Rodeo, and having to recharge my cool vest about 4 times.  I&#8217;ll take this mild but slightly warm weather.<\/p>\n<p>What did I actually do yesterday?  Couple of pickups took me to Missouri City,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/04\/wed-mar-4-2026-so-caffeine-good-stuff\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Mar. 4, 2026 &#8211; so, caffeine.   Good stuff. &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":[15,83,17,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-linux","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","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=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12579,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions\/12579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}