Awake, still.

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Not a problem, I expected to be still going. It seems as I lose water and my blood pressure begins to drop, I get a surge. So far it is rather tame. I am hoping the surge will come up just a bit more. If it goes too high too fast I can always use it to cram-clean my house and my vest weight is waiting if needed as well. My home sort of needs a bit of work again, so I am actually hoping for at least a brief spurt. Nothing of particular great need, just lots of little things could be done or finished. If I can make it a full day today, I will. Being cooler, now, inside, life is smoother. So I simply don't mind being up.

I forgot to mention, duct tape works on moles. I had stopped using the tape for a day or so, and I did forget occasional for half a day to a day every fifth day of use or so. I decided to put the tape back on yesterday. When I took it off to shower last evening, what looked like blister over what had been the moles were open, the centers of the blister pockets opened and where removed by the tape. I hadn't even seen blisters when I put the tape on earlier that day and I had looked over the areas. In any case, when I saw that there was an opening, I again got out my trusty knife (the one that sliced my finger ever so well, I have used it every four or five days to probe the moles) and used the (very sharp, though not necessary for this project at all) point to extricate what looked to be the dead moles (virus cells, possibly mixed with some of my cells). They simple popped out. Into the trash, right away, as you simply cannot trust viruses! So, yes indeed, after about two weeks (give or take, and only mostly daily use), duct tape will indeed kill warts dead! Now I know.

Now to keep working the ears with oil. I lost track on that, in part due to my inability to figure out how to get water at a specific temperature (as close to my body temperature as possible). Though I think the wax is coming out in bits and pieces, there still are plugs in there. I did figure out what would work for obtaining just the right temperature of water... a cheese thermometer. However, while looking around at cheese thermometers, I started seeing that most people switched from the old style to digital, the very ones they used for cooking everything else. So I decided to give my digital a look. It does seem to have a reading that is low enough, and the alarm seems to work at that temp. So, I am all set (assuming I have a clean pot in which to boil water... working on it). :p

I am hoping for a call sometime today about the bike. I don't know if the guy is really busy and has to fit my bike in in the next few days or if he can get right to it. In any case, that is part of the reason I am trying to stay awake, along with that odd notion of living a functional 9:00 to 5:00 day (for no particular reason, at this point, but there may be a future in it). Still, there it is. I ought to see if my camera is working. The only problem with it might be that it needs new batteries (which I have). Rather than trying to transfer it to this old computer using a card reader I still haven't found, I will merely take the card into Walmart and have them create a CD (not dvd format, I suspect this loaner is very low-tech/archaic). Yes, I will put up some pictures, perhaps one with me on it. The camera has a timer and a base set for a tripod, which I also have (somewhere, unless it has been stolen too). It is a lousy camera, but will work for these purposes, mostly.

There is something else I have been thinking about with the bike. I am pretty sure, in time, that I will want a vehicle rack for the bike. They make one that installs in the hatch area, but I don't really like that. For starters, you have to remove the front tire. That is with normal bikes. Mine is a 29" bike, so it might not even work with that type of setup. Removing the front tire, too boot, would mean I would have to reset the disc brakes every time I transported the bike that way, potentially. The rear tire? No way, just for the record. So a hitch mounting kit would be perfect, probably a two bike hitch, just for expandability. Further I am considering a trailer for hauling gear or even leaves using the bike (think going to the "lake" for water, with, say, two to four five gallon containers and back. Six miles is a long way to walk and you would be lucky to lug two five gallon containers. I am not sure how difficult bike trailers are to make, though I think with a pipe bending kit, welding kit, a little ingenuity, and some spare parts, it might not be all that difficult. Making it strong enough to hold enough weight to be useful, balanced enough that little of the weight is placed on the bike, and light enough to manage? Those are other things altogether. More expensive, perhaps, in the end, if you get a decent welding gig (pipe benders for up to soft steel were rather inexpensive last time I checked and I would probably be using aluminum). But all those skills and tools would come in handy. Welding is on my list of things to learn, this would make a perfect project while I learn? Maybe. Back burner stuff, but... It's on my mind. Hmm, though welding aluminum is quite a trick, if I heard right. Anyway... Thinking...

Well, on to something. Have a great day.