{"id":12679,"date":"2026-04-14T03:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:52:37","slug":"tues-apr-14-2026-the-tax-man-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/04\/14\/tues-apr-14-2026-the-tax-man-cometh\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Apr. 14, 2026 &#8211; the tax man cometh&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to start, but warming later.  And damp.  Should be sunny though if the trend continues.  I can&#8217;t be bothered to look, even though I know millions of dollars and thousands of man hours were spent to make a guess.  I can guess for less, and be right about as often.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the morning yesterday doing auction stuff.   Even though I&#8217;m buying less, I&#8217;m still looking at them.  Sometimes stuff like the image stabilized binos pops up.  Some newer thermal or night vision gear would be great&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Spent the afternoon doing a pickup and thrifting.  I need to find a new auction to sell for me, and to move a bunch of stuff.  I&#8217;ve also got some craigslist stuff to list, and I&#8217;m thinking about FB Marketplace.   I don&#8217;t want to set up a borg account, nor to I want to feed that beast, but it looks like that is where the buyers are.  I just wonder if they are any less flaky than the CL buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve got some catching up to do on domestic bliss.  One local pickup appointment and one closer to Lynn, in the early afternoon.  I&#8217;ve got to do some more moving from the storage unit and the shop, but I&#8217;m waiting for my shelf parts to come in.  Have to have someplace to put the stuff.  I need to stay close to home for after school taxi duties, so I&#8217;ll probably cook dinner too.<\/p>\n<p>The list is long.  But the journey of 10000 starts with a single step. <\/p>\n<p>Prepping is like that.  Just get started, and then keep plugging away.  It&#8217;s interesting watching Commander Zero start the BOL phase of his prepping.  I&#8217;ve been reading him for years, and he&#8217;s about as squared away as anyone can be, but the BOL stuff is new to him and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s feeling a bunch of different things as he gets outside his routine and comfort zone.  New stuff can be scary and nerve wracking, but it&#8217;s also exciting.  And learning what you don&#8217;t know, and didn&#8217;t know you don&#8217;t know, is always an eye opener.<\/p>\n<p>Stack.  It gives you options and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to start, but warming later.  And damp.  Should be sunny though if the trend continues.  I can&#8217;t be bothered to look, even though I know millions of dollars and thousands of man hours were spent to make a guess.  I can guess for less, and be right about as often.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the morning yesterday doing auction stuff.   Even though I&#8217;m buying less, I&#8217;m still looking at them.  Sometimes stuff like the image stabilized binos pops up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/04\/14\/tues-apr-14-2026-the-tax-man-cometh\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Apr. 14, 2026 &#8211; the tax man cometh&#8230; &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-12679","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\/12679","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=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12680,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions\/12680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}