{"id":35007,"date":"2026-08-30T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35007"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:57:08","slug":"august-30th-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35007","title":{"rendered":"August 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;I don&#8217;t know how to act&#8230;got up at 5:10 today to a small thunderstorm that is supposed to last until noon or so I&#8217;m sitting here trying to figure out what the hell to do with not being able to get out on the bike&#8230;and it looks like I won&#8217;t be able to until noon or so and I think that will make this the elusive one ride day my legs have been needing for the entire summer&#8230;I wonder if I need to skip the bagel to make sure I don&#8217;t have too many calories today? Not sure yet but it sure is weird to not be out on the bike in the dark&#8230;oh, well&#8230;so that gives me the weirdest of mornings&#8230;don&#8217;t know what to do so I think I&#8217;ll just drink coffee and watch MotoGP in the background&#8230;for some reason both thumbs hurt today and I think it&#8217;s probably from trying to get the damn oil filter off&#8230;now that I know there is enough room around the filter to get a strap wrench on it, I&#8217;ll think about buying one but that doesn&#8217;t have to happen for a year since I won&#8217;t change the oil again for 18 months or so&#8230;and if the socket comes this morning, I may change the trans oil out today to take advantage of the rain keeping me off the bike&#8230;I really need to get cleaning since I want to have this place clean before I head to Italy and do need to start getting the packing started..still have stuff from the UK trip in my suitcase that needs to come out and I need to clean it before I start packing&#8230;and I have to remember to pack some compression socks for sitting on the plane for 7 hours across the Atlantic&#8230;it has finally hit me that I&#8217;m going to Europe in a couple of weeks and that is going to be so cool&#8230;and we are taking trains between the cities we&#8217;re visiting and I just love how nice the trains are outside of the US&#8230;okay, need more coffee and to figure out how to just sit here&#8230;that&#8217;s going to be hard..more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I don&#8217;t know how to act&#8230;got up at 5:10 today to a small thunderstorm that is supposed to last until noon or so I&#8217;m sitting here trying to figure out what the hell to do with not being able to get out on the bike&#8230;and it looks like I won&#8217;t be able to until noon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 30th<\/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-35007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35008,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35007\/revisions\/35008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}