{"id":21851,"date":"2026-09-20T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21851"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:17:00","slug":"journal-of-the-week-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21851","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9\/20\/2026 Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose this is a refresher course on driving: Today I was confronted with a situation which became my fault. At a 4-way intersection with only two stop signs, by the Crossroads church (when we were leaving after the 9am service), I had always assumed that after stopping at the sign, before turning left, I <strong>must always yield to opposing traffic going straight or turning right<\/strong>. But it turns out that this is <strong>only true if we both arrived at our opposing stop signs simultaneously. Otherwise, it's first come first go<\/strong>. So no wonder the opposing car honked at me after blinking at me and then gave up and passed me going straight from opposing side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop sign is the only road sign with eight-sided octagon shape. Otherwise, look for white stop lines, if my own stop sign says \"2-way\" or \"cross traffic does not stop\" underneath it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After arriving home, I did a quick 1\/5 water change for the reef tank. 1.028 salinity. Motivated to do a disciplined weekly water change after my trip to Aquashella (the guy told me he doesn't dose his tank, just consistent water change, and his corals looked real happy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/20\/2026 Sunday I suppose this is a refresher course on driving: Today I was confronted with a situation which became my fault. At a 4-way intersection with only two stop signs, by the Crossroads church (when we were leaving after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21851\">Continue reading <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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21856,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions\/21856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}