{"id":12624,"date":"2026-03-23T03:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:21:56","slug":"mon-mar-23-2026-oh-joy-another-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/23\/mon-mar-23-2026-oh-joy-another-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Mar. 23, 2026 &#8211; oh joy, another week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice day I hope.  Cool to start, 75F in the shade, it&#8217;s like a warm hug.  The sun is a furnace lasering off my skin when there isn&#8217;t any shade, but I can still cool down.  Plus, the humidity is low and the breeze is gentle.  More please.<\/p>\n<p>Slept in, ate breakfast, drank coffee with heavy cream.  Finally got motivated to work, so I took up the leaf blower and attacked the front yard again.  Did a couple of hours of that, trying to get all the accumulated leaves out of the bushes and plantings and into the yard so the yard guys can remove them later.  I almost got finished when the blower stopped working.  <\/p>\n<p>Quick testing showed no gas getting into the carb.   That will have to wait a bit, so I got a rake and did the last little bit of leaf redistribution manually.<\/p>\n<p>Sat for a while with W and the dog admiring the day and the sound of the water feature.   Eventually, kid 2 called for her pickup and we all went to dinner.  <\/p>\n<p>After a bit of intarweb nonsense, I went back out to have a tiny little fire and read.   <\/p>\n<p>All in all, a very nice day.  <\/p>\n<p>Today- well, we&#8217;ll see.  Maybe scrapping out stuff to start, then more cleaning and organizing.   If it&#8217;s nice out, I really want to be out in it.   Even if I do break a sweat, it&#8217;s loads better than doing it in 89,90, or 100+ degree heat and similar humidity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go with the flow today, and maybe the universe won&#8217;t kick me in the teeth.   <\/p>\n<p>Always be working.  Or stacking.  <\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice day I hope.  Cool to start, 75F in the shade, it&#8217;s like a warm hug.  The sun is a furnace lasering off my skin when there isn&#8217;t any shade, but I can still cool down.  Plus, the humidity is low and the breeze is gentle.  More please.<\/p>\n<p>Slept in, ate breakfast, drank coffee with heavy cream.  Finally got motivated to work, so I took up the leaf blower and attacked the front yard again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/23\/mon-mar-23-2026-oh-joy-another-week\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. Mar. 23, 2026 &#8211; oh joy, another week &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624","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=12624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12625,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions\/12625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}