{"id":13228,"date":"2026-11-12T03:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2026-11-12T01:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:34:57","slug":"thur-nov-12-2026-jeez-month-is-almost-half-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/11\/12\/thur-nov-12-2026-jeez-month-is-almost-half-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur. Nov. 12, 2026 &#8211; jeez, month is almost half over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it should be clear today.  And since Fall is here, not too hot.  It was misty drizzle for part of yesterday, with a lot of water on the streets, so there must have been some locally heavy rain.  The cooler temps are nice.<\/p>\n<p>Did my stuff yesterday, which is detailed in the comments.  Today I&#8217;ve got a pickup in Alvin, and the Ranger to work on.  All the usual stuff too.  Priority is to re-bait the rat poison boxes.   They are getting bold out on the patio.  <\/p>\n<p>And tomorrow night I&#8217;ll be watching middle school kids sing and dance.  D2 will be along too, to see her former teacher.  Hopefully things will go well for my crew kids.  Live entertainment is a powerful thing to be part of.<\/p>\n<p>Community. Reputations.  Being a known quantity and one that contributes.  Good things, and solid preps for hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Stacks too.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it should be clear today.  And since Fall is here, not too hot.  It was misty drizzle for part of yesterday, with a lot of water on the streets, so there must have been some locally heavy rain.  The cooler temps are nice.<\/p>\n<p>Did my stuff yesterday, which is detailed in the comments.  Today I&#8217;ve got a pickup in Alvin, and the Ranger to work on.  All the usual stuff too.  Priority is to re-bait the rat poison boxes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/11\/12\/thur-nov-12-2026-jeez-month-is-almost-half-over\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thur. Nov. 12, 2026 &#8211; jeez, month is almost half over &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":[15,83,85,39,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war","category-personal","category-rats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","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=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13229,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/13229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}