A nap in the heat.

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I can't remember how far into the afternoon I made it today after returning, 15:00 to 17:00 is my guess.  Exhaustion, however, from trying to change my schedule, and the trip, finally brought me to ground.  *lights out*  I set the ac to run while I tried to get a nap in.  It simply didn't matter.  The fire of midday, until cooling begins, is felt through the home, over the ac and fan, and something inside of me responds to it.  While I was, with all the help, able to sleep a bit, I was roasting the whole time.  I don't know if it is biological or... something else.  Some questions make me nervous so I don't look all that closely.

The Burning

the glow of the day

torched, tortured, sweating, red

fervid life uncoils

Yeah, you know I'm a story teller, possibly a bit of a mystic (if, and fairly, not by choice), and some other things.  There is a general air of truth to things I write, or that bother and haunt me.  A grain.  I paint my stories with broad strokes, and imbue them with the emotional feel as much as the real.  A child pouting over not getting candy, if pictured rightly in words, could lend the notion that the world was ending, mind you.  Still, there are things in there, real things, like nuggets hidden by the chocolate.  A good surprise if you like nuggets, a distasteful thing if your heart was set on pure chocolate. 

The point is, though, that I did get some rest.  I woke ready to let rest, cut, and serve though too.  The nice thing is I woke just in time for the world to begin cooling, so I won't suffer doubly.  And rested, I should enjoy a bit of the evening.  Probably as much as I would want.  I know at Burning Man, I intend to attempt the same thing, sleeping through the heat.  Of course, no ac there, just a temperature differential, which might mean going out in the heat for a bit first in order that the temp difference means something, 80-100 is only cool when compared to 90-110.  But it is a difference.

I need to get going on some things but I am still getting bogged down, this time with changing my day around.  Tomorrow I have to be back in town in the afternoon, and hopefully deal with some business.  I'm not going to push things tonight.  Saturday, if things are going well, then I might start back up in the bathroom.  With the ac to counter the hot work, or step out into when needed at least, that should work well enough.  Just a bit more to do, I hope.  I sure like the new torch.  It is much hotter, but the speed increase more than makes up for that.  If you like to sweat and take your time, stick with propane.  If you want it done fast and prefer less overall heat, go with mapp gas.  I didn't compare prices, since I already had propane, not sure if it is that much more when you just start out.  I'm sure I can use the propane for something?

Just rambling as I cool and wake.  Later.