Morning seems more normal today.

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I am still tired, but I probably will be every morning I wake up for the rest of my life.  It isn't as if that hasn't always been true, it is the depth of it that is different from anything I had known.  Still, this morning isn't as bad as it has been for a long time now.  Pills and food were taken, weight and blood pressure first, potassium was the morning drink.  I didn't get to bed until 12:30, which wasn't too bad.  I set the alarm for 9:30 but didn't rise until about 10:30.  The alarm was still sounding when I finally crawled out of bed.  That, too, isn't too bad.

I don't have a lot on my list for today.  The final push to finish the tool area, normal care and tending of home and person, then picking up the meat later today.  Tomorrow requires an early rise.  I am thinking I need to be awake by 5:30 in order to wake, shower, and drive to my appointment at 7:00, in order to be there on time plus a few minutes.  As well, I will be shopping for drywall repair kit.  Further, since tomorrow is effectively payday, I might do a bit of grocery shopping as well.  I had to break into my wet cat food reserves in the basement.  I need to replace what I took plus get four more boxes, for a total of six boxes.  I will simply move the new into storage replacing it with what I bought, to cycle even that food.  I mean to do that every other large purchase of cat foot, as a rule of thumb.  I don't need heavy, or many, groceries beside cat food.  Milk, tortillas, bread, perhaps a few other minor things on the side.

I didn't end up figuring out how to get to something minor in my game, or what to do at a certain juncture.  I have spent several hours tinkering, in game, but I just can't suss out the solution.  I am well and truly stuck.  Although, the way the first installment of this game worked, some things cannot be had the first time through.  Special tools or skills might be required to get to some areas... which to me is more of an annoyance as I despise chewing cud twice (or anything else). It is most irritating if a treasure or way is plainly visible directly or in the map, with no way easily visible to it, but nothing suggesting there is a block.  It does give me something to do.  At some point though, either you simply set it aside and move on, or dig for a solution by someone else.  I rarely simply set something aside unless I can see that, say a swing hook is the way to the area or object while I have no tool or skill to employ such a mechanism, is involved.

A little sore in the hips this morning.  I've had worse, and I have been sore for a while, off and on.  But it is stiff enough a discomfort that I might take a smaller group of aspirin or such.  And getting to wakefulness is a bear this morning, on top of it.  Oh, whatever.  Today is my rest and complain day, I suppose.  Saturday I am hoping to begin repairing the drywall.  Depending on how long the cure takes (add salt for a fast set, but will it crack?), I hope to start early and end by day's end.  I might well be sore, even using a step stool or ladder, as all the work no matter what else is overhead, something non-native to all but fruit pickers among the children of God.  You know, if we had just put the forbidden fruit down, backed up, and gone for a nap...  :p

Something I discovered last night while rooting through trivia and such, was that salt truly has proven not to be the problem.  Too much is not truly an issue, save when there is also too little potassium.  I doubt if most doctors know that, they just follow some stupid guide book that is incomplete, or don't bother to investigate the rest of the story.  The few who might know that don't share the fact, possibly for professionally social reasons (they don't want to be ostracized for being right, true, whatever).  Which... I am satisfied with, since I am taking a heavy packet of potassium and am taking a lower dose of the water pill (thus cutting salt retention and potassium loss while adding potassium to boot).  Ugh.  Now I have a better understanding of the heart, potassium, and sodium interactions.  Really, was it too hard to just say that?  Half truths make liars out of everyone who employs them, which then makes me not believe another word out of their mouths until I find out if there is even a grain of truth to it.  

Have a good day.