{"id":3490,"date":"2017-07-31T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T12:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T12:37:53","slug":"monday-31-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/31\/monday-31-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 31 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>08:37 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> It was 54.6F (12.5C) when I took Colin out at 0630, bright and breezy. It sounds ridiculous for mid-summer, but I was glad I was wearing my hooded sweatshirt.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara is off to the gym this morning. Kit stuff after she gets back. Kit sales have been slow for this time of year. We&#8217;ll do only about 50% the revenue this July that we did last July. Ordinarily, sales are slow for the first half of July and pick up significantly in the second half. We haven&#8217;t seen that jump in the last couple of weeks, which probably just means that August will be bigger than usual.<\/p>\n<p>I had two USB flash drives fail yesterday. One I&#8217;d bought in November 2013 and the other in mid-2014. As I was sitting looking at the dead flash drive, Colin walked over and sniffed it, looked at me, and said, &#8220;It&#8217;s dead, Jim.&#8221; I gave that one to Barbara to destroy. She took a hammer to it on the garage floor and tossed the pieces in the trash. Flash drives are easier to destroy than hard drives. For them, I use a .44.<\/p>\n<p>I need to order a couple more flash drives to replace those. It&#8217;s difficult to choose, because now that flash drives have become commodity items there really aren&#8217;t any good brands any more. I think I&#8217;ll just order a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.costco.com\/Lexar-JumpDrive-S77-64GB-USB-3.0-Flash-Drive-2-pack.product.100341442.html\">couple of these<\/a> and use them until they die.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really follow the Trump news, but I&#8217;m surprised every morning when there aren&#8217;t headlines announcing that he&#8217;s been assassinated and Clinton is stepping in to rescue the country from us Deplorables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:37 &#8211; It was 54.6F (12.5C) when I took Colin out at 0630, bright and breezy. It sounds ridiculous for mid-summer, but I was glad I was wearing my hooded sweatshirt.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara is off to the gym this morning. Kit stuff after she gets back. Kit sales have been slow for this time of year. We&#8217;ll do only about 50% the revenue this July that we did last July. Ordinarily, sales are slow for the first half of July and pick up significantly in the second half.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/31\/monday-31-july-2017\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Monday, 31 July 2017 &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","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=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}