{"id":7742,"date":"2021-07-19T05:27:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2021-07-19T01:52:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T05:52:41","slug":"mon-july-19-2021-do-it-for-a-good-purpose-not-just-for-the-sake-of-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2021\/07\/19\/mon-july-19-2021-do-it-for-a-good-purpose-not-just-for-the-sake-of-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. July 19, 2021 &#8211; do it for a good purpose, not just for the sake of doing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hot and humid.  Rainy later.  Just like yesterday.  Yes, that is what yesterday was like.  Sunny and hot, but then rain later.  A downpour actually, in the late afternoon.  There was about one inch of water in the buckets.<\/p>\n<p>I had another day of low productivity.  I felt better, but still had some lightheadedness so I wasn&#8217;t eager to work on hard stuff, plus it was hot as Hades outside.  I did some cleanup before my wife got home, and I spent a couple of hours doing photos, measurements, and weight of stuff for ebay.<\/p>\n<p>I also took the opportunity to concentrate on the puppy and help him succeed with his housebreaking&#8230; and had some good success.  He is yipping when he wants to go out and pee.   He gives a deeper bark when he wants out to poop.  And I have started to figure out his timing.  We didn&#8217;t have any accidents in the house today.  First day!  I caught him squatting after breakfast and shouted &#8220;no&#8221; and &#8220;outside&#8221; while throwing the door open, and out he went.  Hooray!  It helps that he&#8217;s very motivated by treats.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s that.  Little progress on some fronts, but good progress on another.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll either continue with projects here at home, or get out and do some more work at my secondary.  Maybe both.  It will depend on how I feel.  I don&#8217;t like being hostage to my body, I&#8217;m not used to letting it dictate to me, but I&#8217;m finding it more and more often of late.  It&#8217;s trite, but I&#8217;m not in the shape I used to be in.  I really need to spend the time and effort to try and get some of that back.<\/p>\n<p>I think I also need to work a bit on getting rid of &#8216;monkey  brain.&#8217;  I think that&#8217;s what one of my teachers called it.  It&#8217;s when you jump from thing to thing, easily distracted.   It keeps you from doing what you really need and want to do.  Doing things because you can rather than should.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta work on myself as well as the stacks.<\/p>\n<p>Stackin&#8217; won&#8217;t hurt though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hot and humid.  Rainy later.  Just like yesterday.  Yes, that is what yesterday was like.  Sunny and hot, but then rain later.  A downpour actually, in the late afternoon.  There was about one inch of water in the buckets.<\/p>\n<p>I had another day of low productivity.  I felt better, but still had some lightheadedness so I wasn&#8217;t eager to work on hard stuff, plus it was hot as Hades outside.  I did some cleanup before my wife got home,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2021\/07\/19\/mon-july-19-2021-do-it-for-a-good-purpose-not-just-for-the-sake-of-doing-it\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. July 19, 2021 &#8211; do it for a good purpose, not just for the sake of doing it &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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,81,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-ebay","category-wuflu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742","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=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}