{"id":12768,"date":"2026-05-21T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12768"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:24:47","slug":"thur-may-21-2026-more-stuff-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/05\/21\/thur-may-21-2026-more-stuff-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur. May 21, 2026 &#8211; more stuff to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to start, but warming soon.  If the rain holds off, maybe even hot.  Yesterday afternoon the rain cleared out and the sun shown down on a very nice afternoon.  Cool breeze made it even better.  I could use some more of that.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t get much done in the morning.  Slept in along with both kids.  Wife didn&#8217;t wake me on her way out.  Did the Dr appointment, then did my scrap run (another $146 in aluminum scrap), then two pickups.  Hit Costco for cake and flowers.  It was eerily empty and quiet.  The gas pumps were free too.  ($3.67\/gal)  I asked the cashier if it was too quiet and she said it had been slow all day, then volunteered that &#8220;People are all out of money.&#8221;   I&#8217;m hearing that more often lately.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve got a couple of pickups that I need to get done.  And we&#8217;re doing dinner for the kid tonight.  She wants sushi which I don&#8217;t make, so we&#8217;re going out.  Trying to fit something in around the kids&#8217; school activities and work is taxing.  <\/p>\n<p>Both of my pickups yesterday had stuff for the stacks, including water storage.  Yup, it&#8217;s 12 years since ebola 2014 and I&#8217;m still stacking&#8230;  you should too.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to start, but warming soon.  If the rain holds off, maybe even hot.  Yesterday afternoon the rain cleared out and the sun shown down on a very nice afternoon.  Cool breeze made it even better.  I could use some more of that.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t get much done in the morning.  Slept in along with both kids.  Wife didn&#8217;t wake me on her way out.  Did the Dr appointment, then did my scrap run (another $146 in aluminum scrap),<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/05\/21\/thur-may-21-2026-more-stuff-to-do\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thur. May 21, 2026 &#8211; more stuff to do &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-12768","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\/12768","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=12768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}