In spite of the grinding start, the runtime isn't too bad.

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Every four to six hours, roughly when I feed the girls, I dose.  It does seem to keep most of it at bay for the moment.  I had been trying to stick to eating very small bits of this or that but my body, last time I tried that, pretty much just shoved me aside, shoveled it in like it knew what it was doing, then looked at me funny when I went to grab another little snack bit to add to it for my own gratification.  Stupid body.  So far, though, so good, with that. 

These times make me more nervous about stroke.  A massive heart attack, while not pretty or painless, is quite often quite lethal.  A stroke though?  Yeah, you could die of it too.  Though I think you would die of thirst first.  And you would half know it.  No, stroke bugs me.  That is part of the reason for dosing with aspirin too.  They say aspirin can... mitigate the affects of a stroke if taken right away.  At the doses I am needing to take to allay much of the pain I would already be dosed.  Hmm, doesn't it also help with a heart attack?  Though I think you are supposed to put it under the tongue or some such in that situation?  Something.  I just... hear things.  My dad (foster dad, and his was from arterial blockages unlike mine, so... not genetic or family or such) had a really bad heart so I heard a great deal about stuff then, and sort of had my... antennae up when new things came out about the topic.  His heart eventually gave out and killed him.  He lived for several weeks after, beyond the doctor's understanding.  I know he was waiting for me, but I was not allowed to see him.

I finally got what is to be the perfect run up and going in my game.  What I have found though, is even with foreknowledge of most things in the game (some things are random events so cannot be planned as they are more likely not to be experienced in three whole playings than to be found), is that... it still doesn't matter to some small degree.  In otherwords, if you optimize one area, thing, field, experience, it often comes at the cost of some other area, thing, field, experience, or even several other things are affected.  There is too much to truly plan for an honest optimization, though you can do a great deal more toward your various goals with the experience garnered from playing through a time or three before.

I am using... cheats.  Not literally cheats, bugs in the game that allow... early advancement.  Just pretend I had parents that could and did arrange things a bit, or... serious natural talent?  Something.  Still, the bugs I exploit don't honestly make the game easier, just easier to set up the way I want to play.  Actually the big one makes the game more difficult as it seems enemies advance and get more powerful relative to both the player and his allies.  So that when random events or even static "pops" occur, I have to hustle to make sure my peeps don't eat dirt.  Still, I enjoy doing it.  In part to order things all at once, ie leveling choices.  But I also like, a bit, "sticking it to the man" (the game makers).  So much in games is scripted, a series of jumping through hoops.  Sometimes it is nice to just get the damned treat NOW!  hehe

Well, back to goofing.  Later, maybe.