{"id":34269,"date":"2026-05-20T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34269"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:06:24","slug":"another-busy-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34269","title":{"rendered":"Another busy day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;have had another busy day today with getting the first ride in when it was still almost dark, then doing the grocery run and stopping at 4 stores, putting gas in the car&#8230;yikes! and then getting the second ride in after I got home&#8230;it was still pretty chilly when I did the run but I put the top down anyway and my car is starting to be so much fun having such a nice car to fool around in now that I have the clutch sorted&#8230;and I almost have the tires balanced but I&#8217;ll have to go back to Chuck and get the other two balanced to get it completely fixed&#8230;have felt just worn out again today and I think it&#8217;s from getting up at 4:31 this morning&#8230;my last remaining brother gets up at that time every day but damn, I don&#8217;t know he deals with running out of steam later in the day&#8230;I do have Tom to thank for clueing me in on how to trim my ratchet belt so it&#8217;s not 6 inches too long&#8230;took about a minute and I took off 3 1\/2 inches and it fits much better now&#8230;I even used my kitchen scissors to cut it like he did and they cut through the leather like nothing&#8230;so now I don&#8217;t have to thread the extra 6 inches through the belt loops&#8230;I did get some brush killer at menards this morning and I&#8217;m going to dose the trash trees in my fence to get rid of them&#8230;not cheap at 17 bucks but getting ride of that trash is worth the money&#8230;I did get deals at DD today and may have gone a little overboard with buying 4, 4 cheese self rising pizzas when I still have one in the freezer&#8230;but for 1.29 each? I&#8217;m making that one tomorrow and then I&#8217;ll have to find room to fit the other 4 that are now sitting on top of my ice cube trays&#8230;okay time to read a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have had another busy day today with getting the first ride in when it was still almost dark, then doing the grocery run and stopping at 4 stores, putting gas in the car&#8230;yikes! and then getting the second ride in after I got home&#8230;it was still pretty chilly when I did the run but I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another busy day&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-34269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34271,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34269\/revisions\/34271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}