Rough morning?

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My nap took twelve, nearly thirteen, hours last night.  I may have awaken in the night, and maybe once at some point in the morning, but until about 8:00 I didn't truly stir.  I woke to a seeming wall of pain so getting up was difficult.  I tried to angle my waking approach vector this way, then that, then shifting a bit after that, trying to find a way through to wakefulness that might be somewhat less painful.  I don't think I truly figured anything out that way, but when I finally stirred at a quarter to 9:00, waking was a bit easier.  The pain wasn't as bad as it was initially.  Still rather cranky though, I took extra aspirin with my medicine this morning.  At least it isn't an actual migraine today as it was yesterday.  At least I know I can do things right through a migraine.  Some people really can't.  Vision can get a little fuzzy/funky, but yesterday wasn't the worst of migraines either.

I remembered, first thing, about the groceries.  I brought them in, took them to the basement or wherever, feeding the cats after the first trip.  "But poppo, what about our bellies?", they yammered while bringing in the first packet.  My duty is to them, I accepted that, so, yeah.  With happy kitties out from under feet I carted, sorted, and stored a goodly lot of food.  I replaced what I had used, then some, plus bought groceries for up here.  My main worry, going forward, is meats.  We can't count on refrigeration, let alone a freezer.  It will have to be canned, dried, freeze dried, or something else.  I tried freeze dried meats, beef cuts.  It was somewhere between shoe leather and tree bark, and twice as indigestible.  I don't know how their hamburger is and am reluctant to give it a try, but I will eventually, if more for long term storage.  Canned meats are only good for, say, a year for sure, two or even three years as a serious(ly risky) maybe.

If it comes to the point where I have everything I want truly stocked, save meats, it may come time to consider chickens and goats.  Beef would be my favored, but breeding, handling, feed, and what is produced from what is fed favors the goat far too seriously.  The land I own could sustain up to six, even eight goats, while only allowing for one smallish cow and calf.  And while that one cow would outproduce any single goat on milk, and that one calf would outproduce any single meat kid, the numbers just aren't the same and the kid would be meat ready in months, not a year.  As for chickens?  I am not sure how that would split out, though I would want a breed that would produce good eggs and good meat, rather than a specialist species either way.  But how many one would need to produce both is a whole other notion.  I doubt if more than two chickens a week would be wanted, as things stand.  And even that might be a bit much.  Still, that would be over 50 food chicks.  Which... I simply don't know how many hens would be needed to produce that many feeders, on top of eggs.  I'll... get right on figuring that.

I have decided to simply hold my money for this and next month.  The chronograph will simply have to wait until my mother returns home.  At least I have a good idea of when she will be arriving and leaving.  It is time to begin planning a small vacation.  Just a few days in the mountains.  With it being August though, to be honest, I am not sure even the mountains will offer much refuge from the heat.  I asked my friend where it might be cooler to visit, and being sage in all things Utah, he suggested... Alaska?  Hehehe!  We needed the chuckle anyway.  I am still thinking Park City, though I will be digging around in the next few days.  I want my mom to have a few days off (uhrm, and myself).  If I don't plan it she won't go, preferring to stay right here at home.  And, maybe rightly.  I'm... thinking.  If I thought I could figure something out, even a few day trips, perhaps that might be enough.  But with the blazing heat of August, even those are suspect.  But just staying at the house she will continue to work.  Bah!  Blasted woman!

That extra aspirin has helped.  I've taken my medicine save the potassium, which I will do shortly.  I did notice something else.  I thought I was taking my full dose of medicine, but I had been missing something.  Losartan had been increased to 50 mg, I had been taking 25.  Now they are raising it to 100 mg I believe.  So, until that arrives, I have bumped the dose to 50 mg, as in intermediate step.  The problem was I still had 25 mg tabs, I had been using them two at a time, to use them up.  You know me, I hate to waste... becoming waste not, want not type of guy, finally, or at least finding my way back to that in a functional manner?  Something.  Anyway, when I started medicines back up I simply took one of what was in the bottle, forgetting my old level. I should put a note of what I am taking, the dosage too, right in the sack of medicines. I am back to using up the 25 mg tabs, by two... I will use those up first, then have to use the 50 mg two at a time when I start taking 100 mg.  Hehe  Slow but sure?

Have a good day.