{"id":2373,"date":"2015-06-25T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2015-06-25T14:38:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:38:24","slug":"thursday-25-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/06\/25\/thursday-25-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 25 June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:01 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> With a high of 95F, today is to be the last of our recent stretch of extremely hot weather. Tomorrow and the next several days are to have highs in the 80&#8217;s, and lows in the lower 60&#8217;s and upper 50&#8217;s. I blame it on global cooling.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Many of our kit customers buy a biology kit one year and a chemistry kit the next, or vice versa, so we decided to create a combined biology\/chemistry kit that eliminates the duplication in equipment and a few chemicals. By doing that, we can sell the combined kit for about $40 less than the total price of the two kits purchased separately.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I want to have this combined kit available to ship by the first of August, and ideally sooner, so I needed to get started on it now. I spent yesterday finalizing the kit contents and getting the web pages needed to sell it set up. I&#8217;ll continue work on that today and, if necessary, tomorrow. Then we&#8217;ll get a prototype built and figure out the minor details like what size shipping box is needed, how to pack it, and so on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">This is the kind of thing that Barbara being available full time will greatly aid. Having her available to do a lot of the stuff I do now will free me up to design more kits, write manuals, and so on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Someone sent me a link to an article that suggests we&#8217;re approaching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/420211\/left-activist-peak-kevin-d-williamson\">Peak Leftism<\/a>, and suggested that I might feel foolish if we relocate only to find that progressivism has spluttered to a halt and that we&#8217;ve returned to sanity in this country. Well, no. In the first place, I don&#8217;t believe that&#8217;s going to happen, no matter who&#8217;s elected. In the second place, I&#8217;d want to relocate to a small town even if things were normal now.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">14:38 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;m just back from the dentist, where I had my fangs cleaned, polished, and sharpened. I asked the dentist about having new fangs installed, like that guy in the old James Bond movies. Apparently, that&#8217;s not a standard procedure, at least not yet.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:01 &#8211; With a high of 95F, today is to be the last of our recent stretch of extremely hot weather. Tomorrow and the next several days are to have highs in the 80&#8217;s, and lows in the lower 60&#8217;s and upper 50&#8217;s. I blame it on global cooling.\n<\/p>\n<p>Many of our kit customers buy a biology kit one year and a chemistry kit the next, or vice versa, so we decided to create a combined biology\/chemistry kit that eliminates the duplication in equipment and a few chemicals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/06\/25\/thursday-25-june-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 25 June 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}