{"id":13093,"date":"2026-09-21T03:12:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:51:12","slug":"mon-sept-21-2026-running-out-of-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/09\/21\/mon-sept-21-2026-running-out-of-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Sept. 21, 2026 &#8211; running out of September&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Humid.  Still.  Still Summer.  But we can see Fall from here.  It was almost chilly at night at the BOL, as long as the air was moving.  I&#8217;ll be lamenting the cold soon.  Well, not too soon.  Still Summer in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Took Sunday kinda slow.  Made breakfast for the wife and the kids ate too.  Pancakes with chocolate chips, while I had pancakes with bacon bits&#8230; Wife opened some presents.  Then I eventually got to work.  Ended up leaving for home around 745pm.  I&#8217;ve got too much to do today to stay at the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s list is auction pickups, mainly.  Cameras from one auction, household stuff from another.  As auctioneers throw in the towel, I&#8217;m starting to worry I won&#8217;t be able to find the good deals anymore.  Something as simple as furnace filters used to be in several auctions, and they were available often, but I haven&#8217;t seen many lately.   I pay about $2\/filter for 3M in the auctions, but they&#8217;re ~$20 in the store.   Good thing I stocked up.  Bad thing, I got the size wrong for the BOL, so I either need new ones, or I keep cutting the ones I have to fit.   I&#8217;m thrifty, so  I&#8217;ll keep cutting them if the alternative is $20 at the store.  I&#8217;ve gotten used to buying most of my household stuff in the auctions for 10c on the dollar.  <\/p>\n<p>Estate sales will continue, and there are bargains there too.<\/p>\n<p>It sure made stacking easier, when the cost was so low&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Humid.  Still.  Still Summer.  But we can see Fall from here.  It was almost chilly at night at the BOL, as long as the air was moving.  I&#8217;ll be lamenting the cold soon.  Well, not too soon.  Still Summer in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Took Sunday kinda slow.  Made breakfast for the wife and the kids ate too.  Pancakes with chocolate chips, while I had pancakes with bacon bits&#8230; Wife opened some presents.  Then I eventually got to work.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/09\/21\/mon-sept-21-2026-running-out-of-september\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. Sept. 21, 2026 &#8211; running out of September&#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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13093","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\/13093","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=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13094,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}