No sleep, no problem?

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I could not get to sleep, again, until early morning. When I am not being plagued by one thing, it seems another replaces it. Ha! Still, I was able to wake this morning and relatively early. I woke at 9:00 and almost made it out of bed. Then my Mom called and thanked me for the card and the money. I think I heard a bit of the remnants of tears. The mixer I bought her several years ago had quit working (she works the devil out of all her gear!). So, she is going to buy a new one with the money and probably have enough left for a nice lunch. I offered to send her my fancy one, so she could keep the money, but she likes things simple. She is in the middle of canning and the processor just died so the money came at just the right time. Oh, and I was right, she had not read the back of the card. I will lay odds at 100 to 1 that she read the front, read the inside, saw the money, and that was it because she started to cry. I seem to do that to women, both the good and bad type of tears. *sheepish grins*

After her call at about 9:51 I decided to really get up. I will figure out how to sleep, again, I am sure. I have a few things I wish to accomplish today. I would like to find out where to post my apartment and then start on that, I will get to the police station some time today, and I may go grocery shopping and shooting. It is supposed to reach 100 F today, so how much of that extra gets done, or when, is anybodies guess. I might suggest it depends on the dew point, but then again, 100 F is 100 F and dew point will only affect that to some degree. No pun intended, mostly.

I keep checking for medicine and keep not finding it. I also keep hoping for the seltzer water device. I received the CO2 cartridges for them yesterday and I received an email saying the devices were sent even before the cartridges. That is my birthday gift to self. Carbonated water, that is the ticket. I have wanted one of these for many years. Since I am losing weight, though starting to want more fluids and thus drinking stuff I should not, I thought it would be a nice incentive to get back on track. Stupid little things can mean a big difference.

I did buy those headsets too, as I said I would last night, as well as a few other things. A rubber mallet to help disassemble the Ruger pistol completely, a mouse pad as the table does not work so well, and some punches to further disassemble some of my guns should I want to do so. The punches cost more than the mallet, surprisingly. That should be it, except for food, until the first. Well, that and my internet bill. It will be rather high with start-up, set up, and the wireless plan. I may end up taking the a/c back. Simply put, I have finally acclimated to the heat.

I really have done well getting used to things here. I now find 76 F to be comfortable, even cool at times depending on dew point. And when it drops to 70 F or 72 F, I feel like winter has returned. I only hope I do not lose my taste for the real cold! My need to drink all of the time has diminished as well. I still drink plenty, but nothing like the first month. I bet I was drinking more like 2 gallons of water, and another gallon or two of other, per day. Now it is about a gallon of water and a half a gallon of other. I also do not need moisturizer as much anymore. I still use it a few times a week, but more as precaution and general care than as a necessity. And I can handle doing whatever in the outside heat, for the most part. On hot days, like today, if I am active then I do need a lot more inactive time and perhaps a nap.

Reading the bible has been quite good. I am remembering this material well. And, I know, there are tricks to it (like understanding nuance versus seeming contradictory passages) and learning about what they meant altogether in some passages. I am not delving in this time, I am simply refreshing my memory. I will begin finding sources for study as I go. I have a few but need much more.

With the headsets, I went to MIT's internet available course videos. While I could not sleep, I decided to begin studying the course on the physics class I have left to take. I will begin looking at other courses in my line-up and begin doing two or three courses per day. It beats playing stupid games, it gets me used to being focused for several hours, and it covers material I will be seeing soon enough. Either that, or I will do that and add some of my study material. The headset is ten times better than the speakers on this machine, but the sound from the MIT class I am looking at is quite low. I really have to focus to hear, as if sitting in the back, or nearly in the back, of a big class. Even turning every sound producing device in the cave off only helps just a bit. Focus, Cricket. :P

I am off. I will tinker a bit, then figure out what to do and when. A shower, a shave, and a bit of tidying up are on the list before all else. And tinkering before that. Priorities, people, priorities.

Have a great day! (or at least avoid shooting yourself, or someone else, in the foot) Does anyone have fresh tomatoes? I have a hankering for a blt. I might have to see where the local farmers market is and pay them a visit whenever it is that they deign to sell. Oh, and sweet corn! Oh, oh, oh!