{"id":7070,"date":"2020-12-23T05:31:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2020-12-23T02:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T07:13:52","slug":"wed-dec-23-2020-anyone-notice-that-2020-sucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/23\/wed-dec-23-2020-anyone-notice-that-2020-sucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Dec. 23, 2020 &#8211; anyone notice that 2020 sucked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Cool and possibility of rain.\u00a0 I really hope no rain.\u00a0 Too much to do that didn&#8217;t get done yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day yesterday doing pickups.\u00a0 All over the greater metro area&#8230;\u00a0 and everywhere there was vacant commercial and retail space.\u00a0 They are still building what looks like fulfillment warehouses out on I 10, maybe cross dock facilities, but there is so much vacant, I wouldn&#8217;t want to be building on spec.<\/p>\n<p>Chatting with the people at the auctions, they are pretty aware of the gun and ammo shortage.\u00a0 There is a lot of support for Trump in the small and independent business community&#8230;\u00a0 and several of the auctioneers have signs posted saying that guns are welcome, and they support concealed carry.\u00a0 They also don&#8217;t seem to think 2021 is going to be instantly better.\u00a0 Given that that mirrors a lot of what people here have been saying, I&#8217;d say it was a widespread and mainstream idea.<\/p>\n<p>2020 almost had one last kick in the teeth for me.\u00a0 My sibling had a near miss.\u00a0 They were in an Uber and got T boned last night by some guys street racing in Chicago.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All I can say is seatbelts save lives.\u00a0 Three broken ribs, severe whiplash, ongoing headache, and a visit to the ICU, but now at home recovering.\u00a0\u00a0 F me.\u00a0 That was too close.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I expect 2021 to be better, but let&#8217;s get out of 2020 without any more tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>All the stacks in the world won&#8217;t replace people.\u00a0 Take some time out, and make the phone call.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>(keep stacking, that&#8217;s important too) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cool and possibility of rain.\u00a0 I really hope no rain.\u00a0 Too much to do that didn&#8217;t get done yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day yesterday doing pickups.\u00a0 All over the greater metro area&#8230;\u00a0 and everywhere there was vacant commercial and retail space.\u00a0 They are still building what looks like fulfillment warehouses out on I 10, maybe cross dock facilities, but there is so much vacant, I wouldn&#8217;t want to be building on spec.<\/p>\n<p>Chatting with the people at the auctions,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/23\/wed-dec-23-2020-anyone-notice-that-2020-sucked\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Dec. 23, 2020 &#8211; anyone notice that 2020 sucked? &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":[39,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-wuflu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070","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=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}