Things I do at night.

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My days and nights have become unhappily mixed up. At least they are not twirling as well. By that, I mean my sleeping and waking hours are rather static. I go to sleep somewhere around 6:00 to 8:00 and wake somewhere between 13:00 and 14:30. It has pretty much been so since I got here, if I did initially overcome it to do finalizing business. And, as can be seen, I am not sleeping too much. If anything, I might be sleeping a little shy of what I need. Naps help with that, either those or simply resting before or after my sleep cycle. If I could just adjust that a bit I would be really happy. I am working on it. But the temperature really does dictate things, and that I cannot control well yet.

On to the main of the post. Since I cannot sleep at night, and often I cannot rest either, I try to do more than the minor Windows XP games, though they have their place as time eaters. I have been reviewing data regarding bows, black powder rifles, arrows, fishing, and such. These matters are rather more involved than one might think. Though too, at some point, one must just go do. With the natural limitation of money, time, and access, sometimes in combination, sometimes just the one thing or the other, I want to be sure about which project to tackle first, and that I have it covered as much as possible before doing. Fly fishing would probably be the least expensive, even with a fly tying kit, the fishing gear, some starter flies, and waders. Then would be a black powder rifle and kit, though it would be close between those two, price wise, while black powder shooting would take less time to learn well as much of my shooting skills and reloading knowledge (even as limited as that is at this point) would walk right in and fit right in with only a few differences to cover. Then bow hunting kit would be the most expensive, and to learn right it would be between fishing and black powder regarding their perspective learning curves. Actually, I think with waders, it would end up being black powder, fishing, then bow in expense from low to the high of archery. At least, that is how it looks to me, now.

So, I sit and study. I read here, look there, and try new search parameters for various topics within any of those fields. I stick with one of those areas at a time, and for hours until I have had enough. Utah's DNR has some information, as do many other online sources. I have a few offline sources as well. Some go so far, then ask for your credit card. Many, perhaps even most, are free. Sometimes I look into areas which might be a little off the track, as well. Tying flies is normal, but getting into lures is different and not really related to fly fishing, but I look. I often bookmark sites, even ones which might be a little obscure. Like a squirrel, hiding away my knowledge bundles, if too sometimes I have to sniff around should I wish to find them.

I had a cluster of subjects from Iowa, on the poison computer. Some of those I simply will not continue pursuing. Some, like photography, I need to get back to collecting. Many of those old sites were local, however, so I would have had to work with that anyway. Perhaps by Christmas, maybe Easter, I will have something going with that. I suspect I can, until I get my own place, simply have the pictures developed elsewhere and then scan them. I could always scan the color pictures to black and white to get you used to it. Ha! Technology! Retro when you want it.

I really need to get some laundry washed, finish cleaning, and return some stuff. Some of it I can do tonight, some of it must wait. Even the stuff I can do tonight might wait until tomorrow. Then again, I have been letting a number of things slide that I really should not. Nothing time sensitive, but some of the things are important none the less. On the good side, I have not just been sitting around either. If much of it has been fun stuff, I do not mind wearing myself out doing almost anything! It is so much better then sitting in a chair, in front of a computer, gathering dust and becoming older with nothing to show for it. So, I will get my butt in gear, do some things out of the apartment first and perhaps take a short drive, do a few tasks here when I get back, then see if I am still able to go fishing in the morning (and then try to stay up the day to reset my internal clock).

Oddly, this morning, in spite of the thermostats saying it is 76 F (my apartments extreme low but what I usually consider rather warm), I am cold, or at least rather cool. Weird.

Well, I have to go! Good night.