{"id":6642,"date":"2020-08-12T05:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2020-08-12T02:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T06:44:12","slug":"wed-aug-12-2020-best-laid-plans-and-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/08\/12\/wed-aug-12-2020-best-laid-plans-and-all-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Aug. 12, 2020 &#8211; best laid plans and all that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hot and humid.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Really.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was a bust for me.\u00a0 Got very little done.\u00a0\u00a0 I did a bit of work on my client&#8217;s issues, but nothing got resolved or ready for the next step.\u00a0 It was too hot to work in the yard\/driveway\/garage.\u00a0 Even my wife said I should stay in the house.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 Shocked me too.<\/p>\n<p>I finally heard back from one of my auctions, and he wants me to hold off bringing in any more until after the 21st.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s a couple of pickup loads that won&#8217;t get shifted this week.\u00a0 Still haven&#8217;t heard from the other about the pickup load for him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a pick up today that I was hoping to combine into one of those other trips, but I can&#8217;t put it off any more.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve got another auction for some gubs that I&#8217;m actually having trouble getting invoiced for.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t pay until I get an invoice, but there is a problem with the accounting in the system they use, and it won&#8217;t invoice me.\u00a0 They have\u00a0 a bunch of legacy code in their site, and some of it is buggered.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s their smart boys who effed it up, because all the links that don&#8217;t work are\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classic.currentwebsitename.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.classic.currentwebsitename.com<\/a> and the links that DO work don&#8217;t have the &#8216;classic&#8217; prepend.\u00a0 Someone borked their ongoing support big time.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately for me, one of the workflow things is me clicking on an &#8216;agree&#8217; button that no longer works.\u00a0 Until that happens the workflow is stuck and I can&#8217;t pay for my items.\u00a0 Their support people are at the &#8220;please try the &#8216;lost password&#8217; tool&#8230;&#8221; stage.\u00a0 Sent them screenshots, so maybe it will get resolved.\u00a0 If you run an ecommerce site, you better make damn sure the payment workflow works.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So sleepy Joe finally picked a running mate.\u00a0 Strange bedfellows.\u00a0 No idea how it&#8217;s gonna play to the masses.\u00a0 I hope they can&#8217;t overcome the BLM and rioting and the rampant socialism and that people are finally waking up to the consequences of the previous decades of supporting those policies.\u00a0 No one likes to take ownership of their mistakes so if TPTB give them a way to avoid facing the fact that they voted for the clowns that created the problems they&#8217;ll take it, while still doing what they&#8217;ve always done.\u00a0 THIS time for SURE!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It should be clear to anyone paying attention that things are going the wrong way.\u00a0 It should also be clear that with as long as it took to get here, getting away from here won&#8217;t be quick either.\u00a0 Rome fell but the people still lived there, and people STILL live there.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll do the same.\u00a0 Of course it won&#8217;t be recognizable to us when we do get to the other side.\u00a0 It&#8217;s already not the country or world I grew up in.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I need to take some clear and decisive actions.\u00a0 That will make me feel better.\u00a0 Maybe FINISHING some of the ongoing projects and getting out of my chair will help.\u00a0 I should try it and see.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long row to hoe ahead of us.\u00a0 Think about what will make it easier for you and the ones you love, then start working on that.\u00a0 Stacking won&#8217;t hurt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nick <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hot and humid.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Really.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was a bust for me.\u00a0 Got very little done.\u00a0\u00a0 I did a bit of work on my client&#8217;s issues, but nothing got resolved or ready for the next step.\u00a0 It was too hot to work in the yard\/driveway\/garage.\u00a0 Even my wife said I should stay in the house.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 Shocked me too.<\/p>\n<p>I finally heard back from one of my auctions, and he wants me to hold off bringing in any more until after the 21st.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/08\/12\/wed-aug-12-2020-best-laid-plans-and-all-that\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. 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