{"id":2637,"date":"2015-12-15T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2015-12-15T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:02:59","slug":"tuesday-15-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/12\/15\/tuesday-15-december-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 15 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">12:02 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> We&#8217;re gradually getting things organized and items checked off on our to-do list. I spent almost three hours yesterday dealing with Obamacare. I hope that man dies a horrible, painful, long death.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Our network is working fine, using a combination of WiFi and powerline Ethernet adapters. I just ordered another pair of those, preparing to move my desk\/office upstairs. It&#8217;s just too inconvenient to be running up and down the stairs every time I need to work on my computer. For now, that computer is my Dell notebook, now running Linux. That&#8217;s yet another project for later, replacing Windows with Linux Mint on Barbara&#8217;s identical Dell notebook.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Other than considerable rain yesterday and heavy winds, the weather up here has been gorgeous. That probably won&#8217;t last much longer. The average high in December is 41 or 42F (5C), and the average low is about 14F (-10C). I did notice yesterday while it was raining heavily that our deck is not waterproof. The area underneath was soaked. That means we&#8217;ll need to cover our woodpile, once I get a steel tube rack set up and a cord or two of wood delivered.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Our USPS situation has changed. In Winston-Salem, we had a great carrier, Kevin, who generally picked up around 4:00 p.m. In Sparta, we now have a great carrier, Lori, who picks up around 9:00 or 9:30 a.m. The major implication is that we&#8217;ll now be shipping most kit orders the following day rather than the same day they&#8217;re placed. Except that Lori is a real sweetheart, and she mentioned yesterday morning that she generally comes back past our house in the afternoon. She&#8217;s already agreed to watch for a blaze pink flag on our front door that indicates we have kits waiting to be picked up, so I may be able to arrange for a routine afternoon pickup.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Time for me to head upstairs, take a shower, and then get back to getting things where they need to be.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12:02 &#8211; We&#8217;re gradually getting things organized and items checked off on our to-do list. I spent almost three hours yesterday dealing with Obamacare. I hope that man dies a horrible, painful, long death.\n<\/p>\n<p>Our network is working fine, using a combination of WiFi and powerline Ethernet adapters. I just ordered another pair of those, preparing to move my desk\/office upstairs. It&#8217;s just too inconvenient to be running up and down the stairs every time I need to work on my computer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/12\/15\/tuesday-15-december-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 15 December 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","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=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}