{"id":2866,"date":"2016-06-18T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2016-06-18T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T13:59:39","slug":"saturday-18-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/06\/18\/saturday-18-june-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 18 June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:59 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara is cleaning house this morning, while I do laundry. We just started seasoning the new wok she bought down in Winston. I&#8217;ve seasoned cast iron cookware, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve done steel. It&#8217;s ugly, which is more obvious on the gray surface of the steel than it is on the black cast iron. Barbara has never cooked in seasoned pans before. I think once she tries it she&#8217;ll like it. Ten second cleanup and the food just seems to taste better. And I like the idea of using 3000 year old nonstick technology.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">UPS showed up about 7 p.m. yesterday, just after we&#8217;d finished dinner and cleaning up, and left five large boxes on the porch. Colin never even woofed. Those boxes contained about 3,000 30mL bottles and caps, a case of funnels, and two cases of test tube racks, which we were completely out of. Later today, we&#8217;ll finish building a dozen chemistry kits, which were awaiting test tube racks, and then return to labeling and filling chemical bottles and building subassemblies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">And in more bizarre news, it seems that four years or so ago a Pennsylvania Amish couple more-or-less sold their 14-year-old daughter to a 51-year-old pervert, by whom she has borne two children. What really surprised me was that the father of the girl said he thought it was legal based on research he&#8217;d done on-line. Since when do the Amish use the Internet?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Email from Jen, whose husband has a new hobby. Two or three weeks ago, they attempted to start their generator and it wouldn&#8217;t fire up. So David hauled the generator over to a guy he knows who works on small engines. He sat and watched as the guy tore down and cleaned the carb, making notes of tools and supplies he&#8217;d need to do it himself. Jen says David has now downloaded service manuals for all their tools that use small gasoline engines, both four- and two-cycle. Last weekend, he tore down, cleaned, and rebuilt their leaf blower and chainsaw. This weekend, he&#8217;s going after their lawn tractor, which Jen fears will never be the same. But she does admit that both the leaf blower and chainsaw are running fine.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:59 &#8211; Barbara is cleaning house this morning, while I do laundry. We just started seasoning the new wok she bought down in Winston. I&#8217;ve seasoned cast iron cookware, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve done steel. It&#8217;s ugly, which is more obvious on the gray surface of the steel than it is on the black cast iron. Barbara has never cooked in seasoned pans before. I think once she tries it she&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/06\/18\/saturday-18-june-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 18 June 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":[46,38,39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jen","category-news-2","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}