{"id":2368,"date":"2026-07-03T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:23:10","slug":"odd-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2026\/07\/03\/odd-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odd because of the holiday, and the heat. It&#8217;s forecast to be in the low 100s F (38-40C) here around DC, and combing that and (for Federal workers) the observed holiday today, my boss told us all to telework yesterday. Meant I had to do some cleaning of my desk at home to relocate stuff that had accumulated on it. I am my parents&#8217; child &#8211; if there&#8217;s a surface, stuff gets put on it, at least in my office; I&#8217;m better about the rest of the house because the husband won&#8217;t put up with out there. Yesterday was also odd because the local power company reached into our thermostat and set the temperature up 4 degrees, as they do from time to time to avoid brownouts, and in exchange for slightly better electricity rates. Normally those will go for 2-3 hours, typically 4pm to 6pm, but yesterday it ran from sometime in the afternoon all the way to 10pm. And they never sent a notice that they were doing it, even after the fact. Annoying,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We laid low yesterday, but braved the heat today. Out to an Uno&#8217;s Pizzeria for a treat, hit Target for some toiletries (and a clay garden gnome on clearance for the back yard), Barnes &amp; Noble to pick up the third book in a trilogy I&#8217;ve really enjoyed (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/202325471-rebel-blade\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/202325471-rebel-blade\">Rebel Blade<\/a> by Davinia Evans). Hit a theater on the way home to see the new Minions movie, which was cute. It was more an opportunity to do something outside that house that wasn&#8217;t impossibly hot than anything else. Remembered to put some internal window covers on the sunroof of our Mini so it wouldn&#8217;t get quite so hot inside the car. Also remembered to put bags over the (black) front seats where they&#8217;d get sunlight while parked so we didn&#8217;t fry our legs when we got back. Makes me ever so glad we bought a townhouse with a garage &#8211; that always makes the initial temperature setting easier when taking off from home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a potluck on Sunday with the neighbors but haven&#8217;t decided what we want to make yet. Looking forward to meeting more folks in person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odd because of the holiday, and the heat. It&#8217;s forecast to be in the low 100s F (38-40C) here around DC, and combing that and (for Federal workers) the observed holiday today, my boss told us all to telework yesterday. Meant I had to do some cleaning of my desk at home to relocate stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29,60,106,75,13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-home","category-movies","category-reading","category-shopping","category-stuff","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}