Ouch, wouch, and three other words like those.

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No, no pain.  No grump.  Nothing terribly wrong.  It is merely that nothing is right.  Imagine driving at night and having your headlights dim to a third their standard brightness, the interior lights go off altogether, while needing to get somewhere in a timely manner.  At least the drive isn't through a pass with steep cliffs.  So, life moves ahead at a snail's pace.  What needs to be done is food, a bit o' caffeine, and feeding cats.  All else is mostly beyond reach.  Well, there may be something that can be done tomorrow evening.  Barring that?  Oh, a shower was taken.  Heavenly!

Medicine continues.  The medicine dispenser was reloaded on time, without missing a beat, this time, for the first time since restarting medicine.  Blood pressure has not been checked in the last three or four (or more?) days?  Why push it, it doesn't come down quickly, until it drops precipitously.  It is frustrating to watch for that.  As the world warms up though, and with medicine back in the gullet, life has a chance of picking up again.  One of the things that will be created, should that happen, and before fall sets in, is that a daylamp station will be developed.  That might hold the winter collapse at bay, or at least make it less devastating, or at least delay the onset.  But that can't be created in the middle of the winter outage.  Nothing gets done when that sets in.

Plots go on.  The plan to make it back continues.  Oh, feeble perhaps, but that is what is available.  Some creatures where simply not given the option of quitting.  Some creatures just can't seem to die.  Then again, there were times, in real life, when life was on the brink.  All it would have taken was a simple pause, a little release of effort, and the thing would have been done.  Surrender wasn't ever an option then, and it has become no more of an option since.  It may appear that surrender has been rendered.  If you believe that you believe incorrectly.  Moving at the speed of turtle, or even being pulled in the opposite direction intended, the direction will not change.  Onward and upward!