I best get to it!

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Okay, alright, I think I am awake.  I simply have to take a bath, get dressed, and make it to town.  Thankfully I don't have a 17:00 deadline, if I still want to be in and out by then.  My list will go with me, for sure.  I may set that by the back door to make sure it goes.  It isn't huge, but long enough that something would be forgotten.  If you knew where everything was, and didn't have to hunt and peck for every single thing, that would add to going without a list.  But when every single thing is a long-shot hunt and peck, as with this list, forgetting something is guaranteed.

I am a bit rough, of course.  I have been pushing.  I have more pushing to do yet.  I am truly trying to push through so that I can take a day or two off right before my mother arrives.  Just a breather, in prep for a longer length but probably lesser magnitude push.  I don't know if I will get to it.  I don't know if I have enough time.  It depends on when the toilet arrives, how much I can get done today and on each day after, and a number of other factors I simply can't control.  One water heater in today, two of them out of the cave, and the second placed into position though...  If I can do that today I have an extremely good chance at the rest.

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Just not moving fast.  The shower is finally out of the way, here at almost 17:00.  I did check, the store I hope to visit is open until 22:00.  And yet, I wanted to be in, out, home, and working by now.  I've got what I've got though.  I should be happy that I am actually getting to it.  Really.  A day, week, month can go by so fast with nary a blip.  Hmm, yes... a trip in, something to eat, but I can't stop for a visit.  The goal is to have the one hot water heater going before I sleep, maybe in time to get a hot shower before I sleep.

I am telling you what, be happy about your world.  Living just without hot water for a bit and I begin to see "why not" to primitive living.  Now, mind you, my condition doesn't help.  But too, this is just hot water.  Imagine having to cut wood for heat and cooking, to have to produce all your own food, and then to try and make a living over and above that?  Ah, and without transportation as we know it.  Imagine if you had to ride a horse or bicycle to town.  That 23 mile journey just took on a whole new dimension.  While it is free, technically.  No gas needed.  It also takes half a day and a lot of energy.

I have learned some things though.  Keeping a basin of water just for washing hands is good.  Plus I can still use the toilet, I just have to add the water.  That would never change.  I have learned to heat a teapot full of water too.  It all seems simple, but if you don't have experience you have to figure it all out.  I am not the greatest at using little water to wash though.  I will have to learn at Burning Man.  We simply won't have all that much water and there will be no easy, cheap, reasonable way to replenish it.  Then again, if I wash every other day I can double my use.  As is it is taking a gallon and an half to wash my hair and body, plus a pure rinse.  As for streams, those would be too cold even yet.  Life on the native would be a tough walk.  That is for sure.  At least I found out that a cold shower won't kill me.  *grins*  It will kill some with a weak heart, best believe it.

Ah, best get going...  Just... ugh...  Later.