{"id":12609,"date":"2026-03-17T03:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12609"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:46:14","slug":"tues-mar-17-2026-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/17\/tues-mar-17-2026-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Mar. 17, 2026 &#8211; St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And a cold one it will be. Mid 40sF when I went to bed, and supposed to get close to freezing.  I don&#8217;t know if that happened, until I get up this morning.  Schrodingers thermometer&#8230;  Supposed to be clear in any case.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get much done yesterday.  I was having a bit of back pain, and couldn&#8217;t get motivated.   I did some office stuff, but mostly didn&#8217;t do much.   <\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;ve got a full plate.  Pickup at 9am.  Termite guy on the other side of town at 1130.  Client at 1pm.  Kid taxi at 615.  Hardly a minute for a Shamrock Shake.  I hope my back is feeling better, because that much sitting in the driver&#8217;s seat will be pretty painful if not.<\/p>\n<p>Meh, it is what it is, and I don&#8217;t have time to mess around any more.<\/p>\n<p>The apocalypse won&#8217;t wait for my back to feel better, and I&#8217;ve delayed and coddled long enough.   It does kinda suck but it reconfirms that I can go hard one day but will lose the next.  I&#8217;m not a kid anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Stack, it&#8217;s easier than just about anything else.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a cold one it will be. Mid 40sF when I went to bed, and supposed to get close to freezing.  I don&#8217;t know if that happened, until I get up this morning.  Schrodingers thermometer&#8230;  Supposed to be clear in any case.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get much done yesterday.  I was having a bit of back pain, and couldn&#8217;t get motivated.   I did some office stuff, but mostly didn&#8217;t do much.   <\/p>\n<p>Today,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/17\/tues-mar-17-2026-st-patricks-day\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Mar. 17, 2026 &#8211; St. Patrick&#8217;s Day &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-12609","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\/12609","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=12609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12610,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609\/revisions\/12610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}