{"id":35382,"date":"2026-10-21T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35382"},"modified":"2026-10-21T18:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:31:37","slug":"didnt-do-a-darn-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35382","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t do a darn thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;this was one of those days that I need sometimes where I didn&#8217;t do a darn thing but ride the bike..okay, I did go out and put a 2nd coat of the protectant on the car top which, with the cleaning, has made it look almost new and very black&#8230;pretty cool&#8230;I did read the new &#8220;Reacher&#8221; book I got at the sale but didn&#8217;t finish that so I&#8217;ll have more to read tomorrow&#8230;and I&#8217;ve pushed the kitchen cleaning back to tomorrow and I&#8217;ll do the living room at he same time&#8230;still no need to cook with 3 more days of leftovers to go but I will be cooking some of the chicken from aldis this weekend and really want to make the creamy garlic chicken with fettucini and I have all of the ingredients for it so I just might&#8230;need to find a place to stack the rest of my haul of books so I can vacuum tomorrow but I&#8217;m not sure where that will be&#8230;I need to keep them segregated until I try each one to sort out the ones I&#8217;ve already read&#8230;so tomorrow won&#8217;t be a lazy day like today and I&#8217;ll be able to report getting something done&#8230;I hope&#8230;oh, here&#8217;s a weird thing&#8230;checked on the bank balance this morning since today is deposit day for SS for me and I have the same amount as before I left for Italy and that surprised the heck out of me after spending a bunch of cash on the trip&#8230;I think I still have credit card debt that needs to be paid but I expected my balance to be down by 2 grand at least&#8230;but I&#8217;ll take being even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this was one of those days that I need sometimes where I didn&#8217;t do a darn thing but ride the bike..okay, I did go out and put a 2nd coat of the protectant on the car top which, with the cleaning, has made it look almost new and very black&#8230;pretty cool&#8230;I did read the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Didn&#8217;t do a darn 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-35382","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\/35382","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=35382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35385,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382\/revisions\/35385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}