{"id":12717,"date":"2026-04-29T03:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12717"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:46:38","slug":"wed-apr-29-2026-this-time-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/04\/29\/wed-apr-29-2026-this-time-for-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Apr. 29, 2026 &#8211; this time for sure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool, then warm, then hot.  Unless it rains.  Then cool to cool.  There is a chance we&#8217;re in the Tstorm area for the next couple of days but the wind from the Gulf was so strong yesterday, that could have changed.   We&#8217;ll get what we get.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the morning asleep.  Back hurt, and I was tired.  So I slept.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the afternoon doing minor car repair, a couple of office things, and a bit of poking around.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I have to do the pickups I missed in the last 2 days.  I did score 3 more of the laptop stands, so more batteries, chargers, and scrap to come.  I&#8217;m bidding on even more.  Now that I know what scrap I&#8217;ll get, I&#8217;m even more inclined to buy them as I make 60-80USD scrapping them after paying for them.   IE, they&#8217;re not just free, I get paid to take them and salvage the parts I want.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple of other pickups to do too, one is mostly food, the other is odds and ends for the house and the BOL.<\/p>\n<p>There are fewer and fewer auctions and I&#8217;m winning less.   Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Still stacking though.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool, then warm, then hot.  Unless it rains.  Then cool to cool.  There is a chance we&#8217;re in the Tstorm area for the next couple of days but the wind from the Gulf was so strong yesterday, that could have changed.   We&#8217;ll get what we get.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the morning asleep.  Back hurt, and I was tired.  So I slept.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the afternoon doing minor car repair, a couple of office things,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/04\/29\/wed-apr-29-2026-this-time-for-sure\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Apr. 29, 2026 &#8211; this time for sure! &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-12717","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\/12717","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=12717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12718,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions\/12718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}