{"id":9794,"date":"2023-04-03T05:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2023-04-03T02:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:26:03","slug":"mon-apr-3-2023-thats-a-pretty-nice-country-you-have-there-shame-if-something-happened-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2023\/04\/03\/mon-apr-3-2023-thats-a-pretty-nice-country-you-have-there-shame-if-something-happened-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Apr. 3, 2023 &#8211;  That&#8217;s a pretty nice country you have there, shame if something happened to it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and damp.\u00a0 Overcast, with chance of sun.\u00a0 Which describes yesterday, and maybe today.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day messing around.\u00a0\u00a0 Had to stay close to home to retrieve D2 from her backpacking trip, so that limited what I could do.\u00a0 It also interrupted any long tasks.\u00a0\u00a0 The upshot was&#8230; did some small things around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Spent a few hours working on a coffee maker from the goodwill outlet.\u00a0\u00a0 It was worth it as it was a very expensive coffee maker.\u00a0\u00a0 Even just for parts it&#8217;s worth several hundred bucks.\u00a0\u00a0 Often times, they just need to be cleaner or need an inexpensive part.\u00a0\u00a0 This one needs the pump replaced.\u00a0\u00a0 If I was keeping it, I&#8217;d do it as the part is only $50.\u00a0\u00a0 But I intended to sell it, and between the pump and a couple of missing trays,\u00a0 getting it back in order would eat\u00a0 most of the profit.\u00a0\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll sell it for parts, and list the troubleshooting I&#8217;ve done so far.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a couple more in storage to do too.<\/p>\n<p>I did some more sorting, some cleaning, and other small tasks, and that finished my day.<\/p>\n<p>Today I will be doing more of the same unless I can get to my storage unit and pull out stuff to drop off with my auctioneer.\u00a0 That is high on the list but dependent on good weather.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The sense of urgency is coming back, or maybe it&#8217;s a sense of being overwhelmed.\u00a0 The government has gone mad.\u00a0\u00a0 Our institutions are pushing crazy stuff that no one wants, outside of a tiny minority, who are VISIBLY far outside the norm.\u00a0 The inmates are truly running the asylum, and I want out before the free lobotomies get distributed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m stacking, and moving stacks to somewhere safer.\u00a0\u00a0 Think hard about doing the same.\u00a0\u00a0 Think hard about the reality of living in a world where the woman of the year has testes and a penis, no ovaries or womb, and a whole industry exists to convince kids to let doctors mutilate them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Crazy years?\u00a0 Oh yeah.\u00a0\u00a0 Stack it deep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and damp.\u00a0 Overcast, with chance of sun.\u00a0 Which describes yesterday, and maybe today.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day messing around.\u00a0\u00a0 Had to stay close to home to retrieve D2 from her backpacking trip, so that limited what I could do.\u00a0 It also interrupted any long tasks.\u00a0\u00a0 The upshot was&#8230; did some small things around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Spent a few hours working on a coffee maker from the goodwill outlet.\u00a0\u00a0 It was worth it as it was a very expensive coffee maker.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2023\/04\/03\/mon-apr-3-2023-thats-a-pretty-nice-country-you-have-there-shame-if-something-happened-to-it\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. 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