{"id":35105,"date":"2026-09-13T17:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35105"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:59:25","slug":"didnt-do-a-damn-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35105","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t do a damn thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;after working my butt off yesterday getting my clothes washed and packing started, today I didn&#8217;t do a damn thing but the two bike rides this morning&#8230;I&#8217;m already close to having everything ready to put in the suitcase and I still have 4 days to do that and get the house ready for me to be gone 16 days&#8230;and that means mowing the lawn Wed and going to the library to get books for the 7 hour plane ride to Italy&#8230;I did buy a bunch of stuff yesterday that was supposed to be here today but it almost 6pm and nothing yet&#8230;and I really wanted to get the bike lights so I could charge them and install them so I could use them in the dark tomorrow&#8230;oh, well&#8230;have heard a little glitch in one of the pedals on the bike so I bought a new set on sale&#8230;and new riding gloves to replace the old holey ones I&#8217;ve been using all summer after I discovered the length of the newer ones was crimping the nerves in my wrists and causing a lot of pain&#8230;so tomorrow I get back to getting ready to go with putting the garbage out and cleaning the fridge of things that will spoil in 16 days&#8230;so I&#8217;ll be eating out of the freezer with lots of potatoes to use up the bag in the kitchen&#8230;and I have two pork chops to use so that will get me to Wed&#8230;but I won&#8217;t resort to fast food since I haven&#8217;t eaten any since I moved out here 5 years ago&#8230;so this will be interesting&#8230;okay&#8230;time to read until tv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after working my butt off yesterday getting my clothes washed and packing started, today I didn&#8217;t do a damn thing but the two bike rides this morning&#8230;I&#8217;m already close to having everything ready to put in the suitcase and I still have 4 days to do that and get the house ready for me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Didn&#8217;t do a damn thing&#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-35105","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\/35105","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=35105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35106,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105\/revisions\/35106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}