{"id":5826,"date":"2019-12-01T05:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2019-12-01T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T14:05:48","slug":"sun-dec-1-2019-on-the-first-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/12\/01\/sun-dec-1-2019-on-the-first-day-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun. Dec. 1, 2019 &#8211; on the first day of Christmas&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Warm.  Damp. [not as such, 61F and 44%RH at 730]<\/p>\n<p>Did day one of my class yesterday and day two is today.  It does involve some minor metal work, some esoteric knowledge, and some hand work, so if I stretch, really far, under very specific types of collapse, it MIGHT have some prepper applications.  But I am doing it to learn new things and keep my brain working.  And it is a great way to spend some time with guys in meatspace with a shared interest.  <\/p>\n<p>Subsequently I will be away from the internet most of the day.<\/p>\n<p>We did get our Christmas tree up and dressed last night, and some of the indoor decor in place.  I do love the smell of a tree.  We&#8217;re supposed to have a couple of clear days in a row, so I&#8217;m hoping to get the outdoor stuff up tomorrow afternoon or Monday. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on the downhill slide to Christmas and the end of the year now.  We&#8217;ll be traveling for the holidays too, which is another whole ball of wax.   I&#8217;m really hoping for a white Christmas for the kids, and a dozen inches isn&#8217;t unusual in Michigan&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>God willing and the creek don&#8217;t rise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>n   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>   Warm.  Damp. [not as such, 61F and 44%RH at 730]<\/p>\n<p>Did day one of my class yesterday and day two is today.  It does involve some minor metal work, some esoteric knowledge, and some hand work, so if I stretch, really far, under very specific types of collapse, it MIGHT have some prepper applications.  But I am doing it to learn new things and keep my brain working.  And it is a great way to spend some time with guys in meatspace with a shared interest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/12\/01\/sun-dec-1-2019-on-the-first-day-of-christmas\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sun. Dec. 1, 2019 &#8211; on the first day of Christmas&#8230;. &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-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","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=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}