{"id":442,"date":"2008-03-28T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-03-28T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T23:55:03","slug":"an-everything-0-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"An Everything-0-Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>43\u00a0 bar falls 30.27 0mph SSW dewpoint 12 Spring<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last Quarter Moon of Winds<\/p>\n<p>Had a great time with the two Weber (Japanese special exhibit) tours.\u00a0 Grace Googin was there for the first one and I had about 15 on the other tour.\u00a0 Folks seemed to be into it and thanked me a lot after we were done.\u00a0 This is the first tour in a long time where knowledge accumulated over time has begun to break through in the tours.\u00a0 I know, for example, the linkage between Chan Buddhism from China and Zen in Japan.\u00a0 Not like an expert of course, but certainly at a level that helps folks on the tours gain a deeper appreciation for both.<\/p>\n<p>After the tour I drove over to Interior Gardens where I picked up an everything-o-meter that will make the hydroponic part of the work so easy it will almost grow by itself.\u00a0 Well, not quite.\u00a0 It measures electrical conductance, ph and temperature, all three important data points for the reservoir of nutrient solution.\u00a0 Also picked up 100 more pellets for starting seedlings and three\u00a0bottoms for the other flats.\u00a0 We&#8217;re in day three of the sprouting process.\u00a0 Sometime in the next week we should see some shoots.\u00a0 Fun.<\/p>\n<p>The woman at Interior Gardens I remembered because she had injured her leg in a running accident.\u00a0 That was about ten months ago.\u00a0 During\u00a0surgery the orthopedist discovered that her cartilage had pulled a divot of bone out of the knee.\u00a0 This made it difficult of reconnect everything and she&#8217;s still not fixed.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a runner, too.\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, well.\u00a0 If they can&#8217;t fix it, I&#8217;ll get into biking!&#8221;\u00a0 She has a cryogenic device she puts on it at night that takes the pain right away.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home I was, unfortunately, really hungry&#8211;back to back tours with no food in the middle&#8211;so I (you might want to cover your eyes for this part.) stopped at McDonald&#8217;s and got a McFish, which, also unfortunately, I like.\u00a0 By the time\u00a0I got home I was sleepy, no nap, and feeling guilty.\u00a0 Guilt won and I just finished 40 minutes of aerobic workout on the treadmill.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>43\u00a0 bar falls 30.27 0mph SSW dewpoint 12 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last Quarter Moon of Winds Had a great time with the two Weber (Japanese special exhibit) tours.\u00a0 Grace Googin was there for the first one and I had about 15 on the other tour.\u00a0 Folks seemed to be into it and thanked me a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Everything-0-Meter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,87,9],"tags":[4337,369,4367,329,118],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-garden","category-great-work","tag-art","tag-exercise","tag-hydroponics","tag-japan","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}