{"id":12590,"date":"2026-03-09T03:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12590"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:55:48","slug":"mon-mar-9-2026-is-there-a-spring-in-your-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/09\/mon-mar-9-2026-is-there-a-spring-in-your-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Mar. 9, 2026 &#8211; is there a spring in your step?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, no rain, and maybe even some sun.  We got some light misty drizzle yesterday, and it was mostly overcast with occasional sun.  We need slow rain, but didn&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t do much at all yesterday.  Slept in, a lot.   Then piddlefarted around the house.   Read.  Dammit.  Didn&#8217;t want to lose momentum but there it is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to do better today.  It&#8217;s the start of Spring Break, so the kids are home all week.  That&#8217;s once they GET home.  Still have youngest on a trip until late today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to combine trips and do a scrap or trash run when I go to check on my rent house.   I think today will just be fact finding, and I&#8217;ll get all the gear and supplies I need to hit everything at once.   Or to come back with a contractor if the garage door needs anything scary done to it.  Stored energy demands respect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nWith the decrease in global stability and upset to the status quo, I&#8217;m expecting disruptions and attacks.   Hoping for nothing serious, but it won&#8217;t hurt to have food in the freezer and on the shelves.  Ideally, having the ability to shelter in place for a few days or weeks without going out would be a good thing.  <\/p>\n<p>Dirty bomb in a shipping container, or VBIED attack on crowds or buildings seem to be the most likely major attacks; with self radicalized lone wolf attacks to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Or they could be stealing as much money as possible and fleeing as the regime has other things occupying their time.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction is hard.   Better to be prepared for a broad spectrum of things. <\/p>\n<p>Stack.<\/p>\n<p>nick <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, no rain, and maybe even some sun.  We got some light misty drizzle yesterday, and it was mostly overcast with occasional sun.  We need slow rain, but didn&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t do much at all yesterday.  Slept in, a lot.   Then piddlefarted around the house.   Read.  Dammit.  Didn&#8217;t want to lose momentum but there it is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to do better today.  It&#8217;s the start of Spring Break, so the kids are home all week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/09\/mon-mar-9-2026-is-there-a-spring-in-your-step\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. Mar. 9, 2026 &#8211; is there a spring in your step? &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-12590","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\/12590","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=12590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12591,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}