{"id":35086,"date":"2026-09-10T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35086"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:32:22","slug":"a-damn-busy-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35086","title":{"rendered":"A damn busy day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;I have been able to get caught up all day and I didn&#8217;t even get any time to read&#8230;but a lot of that is my fault so I guess I shouldn&#8217;t bitch too much&#8230;the day started with the first ride3 where I got almost to the beach and the front tire started to fail with a huge bulge in it thumping away through the handlebars&#8230;so turned around and rode back and that took me out of being able to get two rides in before the grocery run&#8230;got back here and luckily I bought a couple of tires months back to change onto the front&#8230;then I did the grocery run and forgot my 12 bucks in coupons so I had to come home to get them and go back to Meijers&#8230;after that I did the run to aldis where I didn&#8217;t get any cream cheese because I don&#8217;t like the plain stuff&#8230;so it looks like just toasted bagels with butter until the trip&#8230;after DD I wended my way through town and all of the construction to go to the city offices to pay the water bill and taxes&#8230;and the check for the taxes fell out of the bill so I had to come back here to get it and then back to the offices to pay it&#8230;then I got on the bike for the 2nd ride a little after 11 and didn&#8217;t get back here til almost 12:15 and then I had maintenance to do on the bike that took about a half hour and discovered a crack in the seat tube in the frame so it looks like I&#8217;ll have to get the black bike working and that means a complete rebuild since I&#8217;ve been stealing parts off it for years to keep the grey one going&#8230;after that, I did more packing and didn&#8217;t get that done til almost 4pm&#8230;oh, Meijers sent me a coupon for 7 bucks for bounty paper towel so I had to use that along with ones for free stuff&#8230;so yeah, it&#8217;s been a damn busy day and I am just worn out&#8230;I do like the new tire and will put the 2nd one on the rear so they match&#8230;probably not until I get back from Italy, though&#8230;yay&#8230;I get a half hour to read&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have been able to get caught up all day and I didn&#8217;t even get any time to read&#8230;but a lot of that is my fault so I guess I shouldn&#8217;t bitch too much&#8230;the day started with the first ride3 where I got almost to the beach and the front tire started to fail with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A damn 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-35086","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\/35086","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=35086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35087,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086\/revisions\/35087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}