{"id":7354,"date":"2021-03-15T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:01:20","slug":"mon-mar-15-2021-beware-beware-poets-and-prognosticators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2021\/03\/15\/mon-mar-15-2021-beware-beware-poets-and-prognosticators\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Mar. 15, 2021 &#8211; Beware!  Beware poets and prognosticators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> and the Ides of March&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Cooler and wet.\u00a0\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 No one really knows.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday stayed overcast and drizzly all day.\u00a0 The temp dropped too, down to 58F at one point, although it was 59F when I went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Slept late, had an hour stolen from my life,* and then worked on my plumbing project in the slowest and more careful way possible.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve set toilets before, but never had the constellation of parts and issues that this one had.\u00a0 I got it done, no leaks, and last night it did the business without complaint.\u00a0 It is very quiet, and doesn&#8217;t ever evacuate the whole bowl.\u00a0 Quite different.\u00a0 Seems to work though.<\/p>\n<p>Then made some dinner and welcomed #2 child home from her sleepover.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping we don&#8217;t get sick.\u00a0 Wife decided that child needed to spend some time with a friend for her mental wellness.\u00a0\u00a0 Kid was very excited and had a great time.\u00a0 Hopefully that worked to lighten her mood for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The rain and late start kept me in for the day and definitely limited what I got done.\u00a0 Still, the toilet project was on the list for a long time and now it looks like that is done-for a while anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that this week is Spring Break.\u00a0 Who knew?\u00a0 Kids are home all week and my wife is back in the office a couple of days.\u00a0 That limits my range of activities.\u00a0 On the other hand, I should be able to work projects here at home.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Time to move some other stuff forward, and organize some of the stacks.<\/p>\n<p>This last week gave me a chance to work some skills.\u00a0\u00a0 Hands on skills are good.\u00a0 Infrastructure skills are good.\u00a0 Repair skills are going to be really good.\u00a0 Work on some skills this week.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, keep stacking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*not really, but fun to play with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> and the Ides of March&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Cooler and wet.\u00a0\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 No one really knows.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday stayed overcast and drizzly all day.\u00a0 The temp dropped too, down to 58F at one point, although it was 59F when I went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Slept late, had an hour stolen from my life,* and then worked on my plumbing project in the slowest and more careful way possible.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve set toilets before, but never had the constellation of parts and issues that this one had.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2021\/03\/15\/mon-mar-15-2021-beware-beware-poets-and-prognosticators\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. 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Beware poets and prognosticators &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":[15,83,27,85,39,44,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-msm","category-march-to-war","category-personal","category-prepping","category-wuflu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","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=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}