{"id":2702,"date":"2016-02-03T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2016-02-03T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:12:28","slug":"wednesday-3-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/02\/03\/wednesday-3-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 3 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">14:12 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;ve finished the urgent administrative stuff, and everything is submitted. We&#8217;ve both been working pretty much non-stop for what seems like forever, so we decided to pretty much take the day off. We did transfer 100 pounds of sugar to Costo PET nut jars and some 2-liter Coke bottles, along with 50 pounds of rice. This afternoon, we&#8217;ll repackage 100 pounds of flour, 25 pounds of cornmeal, and 25 pounds of oats to PET bottles, but that&#8217;ll be pretty much it for the day.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">USPS belatedly discovered that they&#8217;d accidentally removed support for Regional Rate Boxes A and B from Click-N-Ship, but they finally got it restored and working. What&#8217;s interesting is that USPS never offered retail pricing for Regional Rate Boxes. You could take one to the post office, but they&#8217;d charge you postage according to weight and zone, just as if you&#8217;d used a regular box. That means there wasn&#8217;t any retail pricing for those boxes, so Click-N-Ship now charges Commercial Base Pricing for them, just as they always did. Since about 98% of our stuff ships in either a RRA or RRB box, that means I don&#8217;t need stamps.com any more. I&#8217;ll use up the postage I prepaid with them and then go back to using USPS Click-N-Ship. That means I&#8217;ll have to pay $18.75 to ship a Large Flat Rate Box with USPS rather than the $16.35 I pay Stamps.com, but we use so few Large FRBs that it doesn&#8217;t really matter. Not enough to come anywhere near the $16\/month that Stamps.com charges, any way.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I just finished reading Ellisa Barr&#8217;s EMP YA PA novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QUGL1BU\">Outage (Powerless Nation Book 1)<\/a>. Despite a few 1- and 2-star reviews, it&#8217;s a decent book. There are two sequels, and all three are available to read for free under Kindle Unlimited. I plan to read both sequels.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Now that Barbara has agreed that it&#8217;s better to re-watch good stuff that we last watched 20 or 30 years ago, so long that we&#8217;ve forgotten any details, we have Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders back in our queue. We&#8217;ve watched half a dozen of the Morses and a couple of the Midsomers and remembered very little about any of them. Some of them, we don&#8217;t remember ever watching at all. Others are vaguely familiar, but that&#8217;s about it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14:12 &#8211; I&#8217;ve finished the urgent administrative stuff, and everything is submitted. We&#8217;ve both been working pretty much non-stop for what seems like forever, so we decided to pretty much take the day off. We did transfer 100 pounds of sugar to Costo PET nut jars and some 2-liter Coke bottles, along with 50 pounds of rice. This afternoon, we&#8217;ll repackage 100 pounds of flour, 25 pounds of cornmeal, and 25 pounds of oats to PET bottles,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/02\/03\/wednesday-3-february-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 3 February 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}