Moving slowly.

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I am getting some things ready and keeping the plans on the table.  I will get to some of my plans.  How much is another thing altogether.  If I had been a little faster I would have tried to get an oil change and tire rotation today while in town.  As is I may be lucky to even check on those.  Then again, those take a bit.  I'm not sure they would have fit in there either.  Something for later this week or early next week.  With time ticking away though, better sooner than later.

This weekend I am hoping to get started on packing.  I don't know if I will actually store things.  I will probably want to wash the clothes I am taking shortly before going, for example.  But if I can have things sorted to where they are going, do a dry fit, perhaps have some of it actually packed, that will simply make life easier in those last days.  The goal is to have everything done so that the things I hadn't planned on won't be such a hassle.  There is always something more, something forgotten, something that comes up, always.

off medication = drowsy

The other thing is I have to start remembering my medication.  That has been slipping hugely lately.  I've been doing okay over it, but it simply isn't a good long term plan.  In the hustle and bustle with planning and doing, it is really easy to lose track.  Further, since my main work station isn't in one place while I am on the move, leaving my medications where I can easily see them has become tricky.  Still, it's something I will need to figure out.  On the trip I will not be taking all of my medications.  I will be taking two medicine sets though, my primary, a two week medicine cabinet, stored in an open easy to find location, such as in my cot organizer.  The other, week, set will be put in my storage pack, near the bottom so that it won't get lost in the shuffle.  I think both insulin vials will have to go in coolers, though I will put them in separate coolers for a bit of security.  The trick will be to keep them from freezing.  Ugh...  Lots of tricks, but I need to learn these things.  It will be easier, should I take up hiking, as though I won't have ice, I certainly won't be hiking in 100 degree heat, either.  While my first goal is physically more demanding, it is much more straight forward as to getting in and out.  Oh, I could still get lost.  It's just much less likely.

1st up - Wellsville Mountains

Hmm, this could be the beginning of many fine, if more local, adventures.  With the sewing machine now working, I can begin considering somethings I have had a mind to create, such as an elevated, shaded, bug netted, and even winterized, hammock.  Yeah, I have odd notions.  They require more work up front and perhaps on the trail, but they also open vistas and create forms of safety otherwise unknowable.  Simply put I don't care to share my skin or meat or even food with the wild or feral, two or four legged, varietal of critters.  As well, I can create custom gear for my size and methods.  BMan is just a bootcamp style kindling of my old flame with the wilderness.  Actually, while thinking on it, I finally looked up the trail heads.  Having lived here a while I know where to go to get to the trail heads, all I have to do is look for the exact numbers and such.  Yum!

I know someone who might wish to go with.  I just wish to go on my own, first, to get into shape so as to not be too much of a drag.  Or to see, honestly, if I can actually do the hike at all.  Lots of water will go with.  But the rest of my gear is in order.  I might even explore a bit when I get back.  Next year for sure.  Maybe.  I am improving, if my home, from the look of things, isn't... well... I am a bachelor.  As I get better, that becomes more pronounced?  Yeah, I think so.  No time for... that stuff.

Hmm, a bit more and the dishes should be ready to deal with, then a shower.  Slow, I say, slow...  But I have the time and little choice, so... there I go.