{"id":9179,"date":"2022-09-03T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=9179"},"modified":"2022-09-03T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T04:59:23","slug":"sat-sept-3-2022-plugging-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/09\/03\/sat-sept-3-2022-plugging-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. Sept. 3, 2022 &#8211; plugging away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and humid, but less so than Houston.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was mostly in the high 80s low 90s yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Lots of humidity, but overcast kept it comfortable most of the day.\u00a0 Unless one happened to be engaged in physical labor, then it was miserable soaked to the skin sweaty hot.<\/p>\n<p>Like it was for me.\u00a0\u00a0 Every stitch of clothing soaked completely with sweat.\u00a0\u00a0 Lost track of the gatoraid I drank, and used my cool vest 3 times.\u00a0\u00a0 The gas line is in the trench, enters the garage, runs to a manifold.\u00a0\u00a0 I started work on the supply side of the water plumbing too.\u00a0\u00a0 Discovered I need 4 specific pex fittings that I don&#8217;t have.\u00a0\u00a0 May head into town to see if Tractor Supply has them, if not, I&#8217;ll work the other end of the system.<\/p>\n<p>Family made it here safely.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Had dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Brand new gallon of costco milk was sour when opened.\u00a0 Seal was bad under the intact cap.\u00a0\u00a0 I might go into town for milk, and just stop by the hardware or TS store on the way.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not the only one with milk going off before its time lately.\u00a0\u00a0 One more thing failing amongst many.<\/p>\n<p>I REALLY am feeling pressure to have this place ready as a real refuge.\u00a0\u00a0 Politics are getting more divisive and the rhetoric is escalating.\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty sure the current president just declared war on more than half the population.\u00a0 Since he said last week that we&#8217;d need more than guns, and finally stumbled around to saying we&#8217;d need F-15s, that sounds a lot like he intends to use the Armed Forces against us.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wonder how that will work out?\u00a0\u00a0 Nice for the heads up though.<\/p>\n<p>You aren&#8217;t stacking enough.\u00a0\u00a0 Get busy.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and humid, but less so than Houston.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was mostly in the high 80s low 90s yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Lots of humidity, but overcast kept it comfortable most of the day.\u00a0 Unless one happened to be engaged in physical labor, then it was miserable soaked to the skin sweaty hot.<\/p>\n<p>Like it was for me.\u00a0\u00a0 Every stitch of clothing soaked completely with sweat.\u00a0\u00a0 Lost track of the gatoraid I drank, and used my cool vest 3 times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/09\/03\/sat-sept-3-2022-plugging-away\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. Sept. 3, 2022 &#8211; plugging away &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":[83,96,85,39,13,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse","category-march-to-war","category-personal","category-politics","category-surveillance-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179","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=9179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9180,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions\/9180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}