{"id":4784,"date":"2019-02-20T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:18:23","slug":"wed-feb-20-2019-chilly-willy-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/02\/20\/wed-feb-20-2019-chilly-willy-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Feb. 20, 2019 &#8211; chilly willy out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 45F and damp.  Chilly Willy!<\/p>\n<p>Had a nice time with the kids yesterday.  The Geology section is more talking than the others, because we just do a sorting and identifying exercise.  Our normal presenter didn&#8217;t show for the last two classes so I did it.  Fun.  They want me to be a regular presenter next year.  I&#8217;ve been reluctant, but maybe I should.  I prefer the support role and sitting at the table helping the kids do the labs.<\/p>\n<p>Our local economy is starting to (or continuing to) slow down.  I see more empty commercial property and more for lease signs every day.  There are several big housing developments in my neighborhood currently being built out, and I suspect they&#8217;ll take a while to occupy.  Nothing like having development suddenly add over a thousand homes to your neighborhood, converting several hundred acres of open space to high density housing.  Wife&#8217;s work situation is suddenly unstable\/changing, or I think she&#8217;d be more seriously looking to move house.  It is comforting to have no debt and money in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about writing a post about my workspace with pictures.  Anyone interested?<\/p>\n<p>n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 45F and damp.  Chilly Willy!<\/p>\n<p>Had a nice time with the kids yesterday.  The Geology section is more talking than the others, because we just do a sorting and identifying exercise.  Our normal presenter didn&#8217;t show for the last two classes so I did it.  Fun.  They want me to be a regular presenter next year.  I&#8217;ve been reluctant, but maybe I should.  I prefer the support role and sitting at the table helping the kids do the labs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/02\/20\/wed-feb-20-2019-chilly-willy-out\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Feb. 20, 2019 &#8211; chilly willy out &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}