{"id":2595,"date":"2015-11-13T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2015-11-13T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T13:33:45","slug":"friday-13-november-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/11\/13\/friday-13-november-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 13 November 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:33 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We&#8217;re now in wait-and-see mode on the house. On the plus side, the current owners seem to be packing up their stuff, so Paula, our buyers&#8217; agent, is optimistic that they are in fact preparing to get out of the place. We&#8217;ll just have to hope that they do show up for the closing. If they take the wood stove it&#8217;ll piss me off, but I&#8217;m not going to let it interfere with the closing. We&#8217;ll install a propane heater, and if nothing else I&#8217;ll order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehmans.com\/p-4707-barrel-wood-heat-stove-kit.aspx\">one of these<\/a> to keep on hand so that we can burn wood in an emergency.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">With relocation stuff taking up most of my time, I didn&#8217;t have much spare time, but here&#8217;s what I did to prep this week:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I read Theresa Shaver&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007U3A23U\">Land (Stranded Book 1)<\/a>, a young-adult PA EMP novel. It&#8217;s a first novel and self-published so it&#8217;s a bit rough, but I&#8217;ve read a lot worse.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I got a <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008YB4V52\">2-liter wide-mouth Thermos bottle<\/a> to experiment with vacuum bottle cooking. It allegedly keeps hot stuff hot or cold stuff cold for 24 hours. We&#8217;ll see. I&#8217;ll be happy if I get 12 or even 8 hours out of it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So, what precisely did you do to prepare this week? Tell me about it in the comments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:33 &#8211; Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now in wait-and-see mode on the house. On the plus side, the current owners seem to be packing up their stuff, so Paula, our buyers&#8217; agent, is optimistic that they are in fact preparing to get out of the place. We&#8217;ll just have to hope that they do show up for the closing. If they take the wood stove it&#8217;ll piss me off,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/11\/13\/friday-13-november-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 13 November 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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","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=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}