Sputter... Cough.... *creak*

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Ugh.  Oh, never mind.  I think I am finally awake.  I went to bed at 4:00, woke for just a bit at 8:00 or so.  The sun seemed to be up so I opened the shades for the plants then saw my shadow.  Back into the cubbyhole.  I didn't wake until 15:00 or so.  Or, about a little bit ago.  Blood pressure was a little high, I see that I missed my last medicine group.  Whatever.  I've been doing pretty darned good with medicines for quite a while, and I have been taking my vitals daily for nearly two weeks.  Didn't feel like doing that this morning but did it anyway.  Ugh.

When I woke for the day the sun was gone.  It looks to have rained more on top of that.  I almost thought I heard lightening while sleeping.  Might have been dreaming though.  Sun!  I wish I had been able to stay awake this morning to get a little sun but it just wasn't there.  It's not so much a want thing, right at this moment, as it is a need.  My plants are plateauing too, until they get sun.  They do look good, they have simply stopped growing up and out.  I clipped some of them, though if I had known the sun was going to be gone I wouldn't have.  I won't clip any more until the sun shows.

Trash and recycling today.  And, if I can, getting the new sump pump working.  With water in the blind, and actually now that I think of it water pretty available from the hydrant in any case, I have less to fear in that regard.  If I can, I will get the whole water heater thing done today.  I can sure drag my feet.  See, with a woman here, while she could help when the water goes out, until things get set back up, she would also be pushing for hot water something fierce.  When on my own it just isn't as big of a deal.  Especially when the sun and gravity is keeping me down.  I've got to admit, little as I always liked it, a woman does help keep me active and on top.

I finally had to turn the heat back on a day ago or so.  The cold is back and doesn't help one iota.  Now, if they could transport a week of this to mid-July or early August, I would be thankful.  Just not, right, now.  Can't get a leg up with the sun down.  No matter how good that particular saddle looks.  Bleh.


I keep telling people that gold and silver are just... pawns.  No, I don't suggest getting out, or in, or changing your habits, just don't think gold or silver are more than a last hope should money fail.  Consider it a final hedge.  If you have food, seed, communication, manual tools and transport, housing, and other needs met, for a grid-down, then you put money in these things so as to have some actual wealth in a slide toward civil oblivion.  Don't buy into silver, gold, etc. thinking you are going to get rich.  Further, I would argue that those who think gold has become more valuable are missing a huge elephant in the room.  Gold, and to some extent silver, and others, now cost more... in dollars, yens, pounds, and such.  What you need to ask is, how much is the dollar, yen, pound, etc. worth compared to what they were worth?  If you suggest they have slid, you would be right.  Now, since all currency has slid in value, you don't see that... what you are paying now compared to what you paid then seems to be higher.  But when you value the coin to the bullion then on to other commodities (the ones that haven't been spiked, or made rare through government malfeasance such as grains because they are being grown of a particular type and to be burned as fuel, not eaten) you find that the value of gold, in real terms, is rather static.  If that doesn't make you sweat, I can't help you.  And, gold and silver will, have, and are... playthings for the super rich who try to... adjust the markets.  You aren't one of those.  Don't play that game.  I am saying if gold hits $5k an ounce, that dollar you are holding has simply become worth much less.  Ignore the wizard behind the curtain at your peril.

My excessive writing has been trying to... stay awake, keep my goals loaded, write notes.  Anything to avoid the pit I am swinging over.  I am hanging on, but just by a thread.  I slipped today, a bit.  A lot of a bit.  Sun!  It's coming... I hope.  Later.