{"id":2640,"date":"2015-12-18T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:12:06","slug":"friday-18-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/12\/18\/friday-18-december-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 18 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:12 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> The weather is turning cooler here, at least for a couple days. Our high today is to be in the 30&#8217;s and the low tonight well below freezing. It&#8217;s also been windy lately. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s just normal for an exposed area in the mountains or if it&#8217;s been windier than normal. At any rate, today will be a good day to stay indoors and work on getting things organized.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Kit shipments are behind last year&#8217;s for this time of year, but from what I&#8217;m hearing from other small businesses that&#8217;s pretty common. It seems that the economy in general is slowing down and has been all year. We&#8217;ll be taking steps to increase sales in 2016, including introducing new kits and a new line of economy kits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Things have also been slow on the prepping front. We&#8217;re in reasonably good shape now, so we&#8217;ll be making only incremental improvements in the coming weeks and months. Here&#8217;s what I did to prep this week:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I started compiling a list of local progs for future reference. Unfortunately (or fortunately), there don&#8217;t appear to be any. This is not a prog-friendly area.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I went through our current inventory and annotated it with a prioritized list of things to be acquired if, as, and when.<br \/>\n<\/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>09:12 &#8211; The weather is turning cooler here, at least for a couple days. Our high today is to be in the 30&#8217;s and the low tonight well below freezing. It&#8217;s also been windy lately. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s just normal for an exposed area in the mountains or if it&#8217;s been windier than normal. At any rate, today will be a good day to stay indoors and work on getting things organized.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kit shipments are behind last year&#8217;s for this time of year,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/12\/18\/friday-18-december-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 18 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":[39,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-weekly-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","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=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}