{"id":5532,"date":"2019-09-14T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T09:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2019-09-14T00:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T04:22:06","slug":"sat-sept-14-2019-where-did-the-week-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/09\/14\/sat-sept-14-2019-where-did-the-week-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. Sept. 14, 2019 &#8211; where did the week go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Cool and wet.\u00a0 Yesterday started out cooler, stayed cooler longer, but by late afternoon was PLENTY HOT.\u00a0\u00a0 It did cool off pretty quickly once the sun started down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my monthly get together for my non-prepping hobby this morning, so I&#8217;ll be radio silence for a while.\u00a0 Then I will be trying to cram as many of my week&#8217;s goals into a couple of hours as possible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where the week went.\u00a0 I had plans.\u00a0 I had good intentions.\u00a0 Shopping and auction pickups ate a bunch of daylight, that&#8217;s certain, but there still should have been more time to work the list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now that the gloves have come off, and Burrito Beto (white on the outside, full of brown stuff inside) declared his position on gun confiscation and the Bill of Rights, I wonder if sales will pick up?\u00a0 If they don&#8217;t, it&#8217;ll be a pretty good indicator of how the public sees his chances of winning&#8230;\u00a0 and that the other Dems didn&#8217;t come out with &#8216;clarification&#8217; statements, means that they&#8217;re fully on board too, they just don&#8217;t want to say it out loud yet. Fully socialist, and gun grabby- does no one see the path they are following and where it leads? [Solzhenitsyn quote left as an exercise for the reader.]<\/p>\n<p>Anyone here still think we&#8217;re not headed into a major schism in our country and in the world?\u00a0 If not, how would we avoid one?\u00a0 Because just continuing as we are will lead there and no one is suggesting alternate paths, or putting on the brakes.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I prep (and hurricanes.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t forget about the hurricanes.\u00a0 Especially with one headed toward us again.)<\/p>\n<p>What have you done to improve your skills? Stockpile? sources? community?\u00a0\u00a0 I hope it&#8217;s something, even if little tiny steps&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cool and wet.\u00a0 Yesterday started out cooler, stayed cooler longer, but by late afternoon was PLENTY HOT.\u00a0\u00a0 It did cool off pretty quickly once the sun started down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my monthly get together for my non-prepping hobby this morning, so I&#8217;ll be radio silence for a while.\u00a0 Then I will be trying to cram as many of my week&#8217;s goals into a couple of hours as possible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where the week went.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/09\/14\/sat-sept-14-2019-where-did-the-week-go\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. Sept. 14, 2019 &#8211; where did the week go? &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":[13,44,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-prepping","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","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=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}