{"id":12897,"date":"2026-07-08T03:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:46:36","slug":"wed-july-8-2026-over-the-top-under-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/07\/08\/wed-july-8-2026-over-the-top-under-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. July 8, 2026 &#8211; over the top, under the bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and wet.  Not the good kind.   The Houston kind.  Got to 100F yesterday, and the air was saturated.  Then it rained.   And then it got hot again.   And then it rained.   We did get some blue sky so that was nice.   More of the same today is my guess.<\/p>\n<p>Did some things in the morning.  Then did some things in the afternoon.  Not enough things.  Not super productive things.   Just things.<\/p>\n<p>Now today I have structure.  I have a couple of pickups to do so I have to meet another person&#8217;s schedule.   I&#8217;m not winning.   And I really should be making a list of stuff to take up with me for my projects at the BOL&#8230;  so I can buy that stuff and raid the stacks for the other stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I am not motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep swimming.  Just keep swimming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And stack, if you feel like it.<br \/>\nn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and wet.  Not the good kind.   The Houston kind.  Got to 100F yesterday, and the air was saturated.  Then it rained.   And then it got hot again.   And then it rained.   We did get some blue sky so that was nice.   More of the same today is my guess.<\/p>\n<p>Did some things in the morning.  Then did some things in the afternoon.  Not enough things.  Not super productive things.   Just things.<\/p>\n<p>Now today I have structure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/07\/08\/wed-july-8-2026-over-the-top-under-the-bottom\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. July 8, 2026 &#8211; over the top, under the bottom &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":[15,83,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897","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=12897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12898,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions\/12898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}