{"id":34704,"date":"2026-07-15T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34704"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:10:49","slug":"had-a-steak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34704","title":{"rendered":"Had a steak&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;got through the dentist appointment with no problems and now all I have to do is the gas company next week and I can have some time to relax&#8230;my new coffee table is supposed to be here today but it&#8217;s coming on UPS that I don&#8217;t understand after buying it from amazon&#8230;I did fire up the grill right after I got back and grilled the 11 dollar steak I bought and it came out good for what I could taste of it&#8230;will I buy another one? Nope, not worth it when I can get 5 pounds of chicken for the same price at aldis&#8230;still damn hot here but I&#8217;m surviving with the fan all the way up to 3 of 5 and I still have the box fan in reserve&#8230;I wonder if I should have a cocktail to celebrate you know what tonight? Probably but it&#8217;s just not as much fun as it used to be&#8230;I did start a book by Jeffrey Deaver who invented the Colton Shaw character for the tv show &#8220;Tracker&#8221; and it&#8217;s not bad&#8230;I even have another one that actually has Colter Shaw as the main character and I am curious how close he will be to the tv show&#8230;only ate the one meal today of the steak and 3 spoonfuls of potato salad and I still feel full 3 hours later so I think I&#8217;ll have some artichoke\/jalapeno dip with crackers later for dinner&#8230;didn&#8217;t even have a bagel this morning so I guess I have calories to give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;got through the dentist appointment with no problems and now all I have to do is the gas company next week and I can have some time to relax&#8230;my new coffee table is supposed to be here today but it&#8217;s coming on UPS that I don&#8217;t understand after buying it from amazon&#8230;I did fire up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Had a steak&#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-34704","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\/34704","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=34704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34705,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34704\/revisions\/34705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}