{"id":13027,"date":"2026-08-27T03:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:47:35","slug":"thur-aug-27-2026-work-today-eclipse-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/08\/27\/thur-aug-27-2026-work-today-eclipse-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur. Aug. 27, 2026 &#8211; Work today, eclipse tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More hot and humid.  Can&#8217;t fool mother nature, and it&#8217;s very natural to have heat and humidity in the Houston swamp.  Over 100F in the shade, and 106F in the sun&#8230; and again probably today.   It was a bit cooler at midnight, only 85F with some gusting winds.<\/p>\n<p>I did nothing all day.  I laid on the bed, stretching and reading most of it.  I can&#8217;t help feeling bad about it, while acknowledging that some part of me must have needed that.  We&#8217;ll see, but I did do a whole lot of physical work with little sleep, and a whole lot of being out in public and talking to people which is taxing in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Today though, I really need to get back in the swing of doing things.  I think I&#8217;ll have to get the fence repair at the rent house done, at a minimum.  And since the utility guys have called for a trim crew, I should cut any stuff along my property line if I want to save any of it.  And I do, because it provides shade and some isolation for the back yard.<\/p>\n<p>I should also move toward getting A\/C going in the office at the shop, and the portacool set up there for the warehouse area, and start digging a path through the garage to swap out the A\/C in there, which is definitely not making cold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve got cameras to install.  I&#8217;m moving one drop and upgrading that cam to look at the back yard, and I need to get the cam to spy on the halfway house driveway installed.  Every time I think no one is home to observe and object, someone pulls up.  They seem to swap out guys at the end of the month, so I&#8217;ve got a good window coming up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gonna be another day of sweating in the heat.  My ice pack cool vest should help.<\/p>\n<p>Lots to do, and stacks to work from and on.   If you&#8217;ve got the stuff, you should use it once in a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More hot and humid.  Can&#8217;t fool mother nature, and it&#8217;s very natural to have heat and humidity in the Houston swamp.  Over 100F in the shade, and 106F in the sun&#8230; and again probably today.   It was a bit cooler at midnight, only 85F with some gusting winds.<\/p>\n<p>I did nothing all day.  I laid on the bed, stretching and reading most of it.  I can&#8217;t help feeling bad about it, while acknowledging that some part of me must have needed that.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/08\/27\/thur-aug-27-2026-work-today-eclipse-tonight\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thur. Aug. 27, 2026 &#8211; Work today, eclipse tonight? &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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13027","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\/13027","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=13027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13030,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions\/13030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}