Lots of research.

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Looking for specific items on the interwebz is not always as easy as one might think. (-China, always -China) If it looks too good, it really probably isn't what it says or you think. Cheap? Sure, refurbished without being refurbished or stolen. Even when you are dealing with legite sellers, they are absolutely some of the most dishonest people you can know. And quality has dropped hugely. We are now buying disposable junk that really, quite often, can't be fixed, not reasonably. Most of it you wouldn't want to fix. Mad? Who, me? Fuck yeah. Tired too.

In any case, I found some things I need but couldn't get this machine to go through the check-out process. I also started looking around at 18v cordless drills (and sets). Lord help me, but... I saw an excellent DeWalt 5-piece set. Along with two extra batteries, it was right under $500. I Do HAVE the money. I just can't do it this month. Bills coming up, keeping some money in savings and the various checking accounts, and all kinds of things could be coming down. If I can get to the roof in another month, when I find out what the other costs are, I might consider it then if I have been a good boy and socked away a bit more. Three steps forward, one step back, that is how it is going to go now that I am back in some kind of reasonable shape to make my will good. I would like to have just enough in savings for any last minute critical buys should I see the end of sunrises as we know them. Or, so the story goes. We will see. But I have been doing darn good, even when I am in a down time. I never fall too far and always catch up and get ahead when the getting is good. For two or three months now, the trajectory has been skyward or at least mid-morning sunward, and in the right direction to boot. I have been spending on wool socks (a ton) and new underwear and clothes over the last six months. Size has changed and I want to have extra and new. You have no idea how valuable wool socks will be. And they last forever. Hmm, maybe I should put my off-sized clothing in storage? Come to think of it, yes.

Oh, the only physical pains that remain after falling off medicine for a few days baffle me. Imagine you had wings attached to your back, and the area they would most likely be. Now imagine if they had been chopped or burned off (the two sensations can be quite similar, if you don't know. Trust me.) Most of the pain has faded now, it feels more like the areas have scabbed and I feel some of the pain of loss and some of the itchy burning from the healing process. Scratching is ill advised and doesn't help anyway. Don't ask me what would cause such pains, I only know what I feel.

Well, time to get to bed. I have spent hours pouring over tons of material, tinkering with the design program, tinkering in general, and I am tired. But I like that I am 'going somewhere' again. Good night, sweet mortalings. Don't let the succubus or incubus bite. Sure, demons are straight... Californians aren't. Bah! hahahaha