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Bearly awake, and I mean that. I stayed awake until 14:00, and won't complain on that part if I had hoped for a bit more. The thing is my sleep time is reducing and there is little I can do to alter that. Six hours of sleep is fine if you run a simple day. But when you are, and have been, pushing the edges of sleep for a while, both sleeping less and being awake longer, some days are made for being a bit on the grumpy side. Actually worse. I feel grumpy when I am called to wakefulness but groggy of mind. When I wake full fit of mind and ready, but still tired, that creates sharp edges and a poor social disposition. It is days like these, when with a woman, I seek a lock for my tongue. Women so love to play with fire then resent the burn. Ah well, there is selective memory to soothe the guilt. *chuckles*
I need to get going, but my body's push to change my up times seems to be taking a toll. Oh, I'll get to it, and am slowly doing bits and pieces, I just can't focus and stay on track. No physical complaints. I do note that it has been three days since last I took medication. Don't ask, I don't know. I actually thought I had been taking medication and stats. Nope. BP didn't jump too much, not so far. And, oddly, blood sugar is the lowest it has been since starting this new medication. Huh? Don't ask me. Other than, as I said, I question diabetic medications, actually I question the whole diagnosis and-or their understanding of it. I am taking insulin, so I'm not on the light stuff, or a minor pill. Not that my diabetes, to my mind, is that bad. It's just that one of the oral medications doesn't work right, one is contraindicated by my heart failure let alone the advanced part, and the last was damaging my liver or kidney functions. Yeah. It's a last option given all the givens. Hmm, I'll have to figure out how to set that up in the coolers. I know it can't be frozen. Putting it in with the... 'non-hedonist libations' is probably the trick. *chuckles*
It looks like everything I ordered is on the way. Most of it should be here very soon. The last thing I need to buy are steaks, prep those and some hamburgers, get those sorted and stored and frozen tight. The next time I am in town I might look for some dry ice with which to experiment. Hmm, and figure out what to put in the coolers so as to avoid having the dry ice destroy the coolers themselves. I am thinking of buying a cheap styrofoam cooler and tearing that down to be used as insulation. I need to experiment with bags of ice, dry ice, and combinations of those. A bag of ice on the bottom, water tighted frozen meat layered with dry ice above that for one, then another with just ice, and possibly a third with dry ice over ice just for the sake of ice (to add to drinks). Yeah, I know, but... cold is the one thing that is a true luxury in that kind of heat, and water of course. All theory until I get off my ass, mind you.
Well, later.
"Women so love to play with fire then resent the burn."
ReplyDeleteHA! Isn't this SO the truth!
How about dry ice wrapped in paper set atop everything that needs freezing? That way it need not interact with anything and will just sublimate at its usual pace.
ReplyDeleteAs to dry ice? It sublimates at about ten pounds per 24 hours, minimally. So, seven days would be 70 pounds of dry ice, but then add three to four days of travel and... ugh. That's pushing it for the volume available, I think. And at about $6 per ten pound, and wanting some for several coolers. Well? Simply I don't know enough to say, exactly. Another part of the volume problem is that I need styrofoam or something else to protect the sides (at least) of the cooler. Though even if packed on top my guess is that the bottom would need protection. Freeze safely! Cracks would degrade the preservative qualities of the case and require money to replace.
ReplyDeleteFor packing, yeah, I had planned on that if I didn't type the thought correctly. Or, it came to me after a bit more looking. I would still like to layer the dry ice with the frozen meats, both to make it so I don't have to remove all the dry ice at once and... just because it's what I think would be best.
Another volume problem will be the shrinking nature of the stuff. What to use to fill the voids. This is where ice might come in handy, but under it all. A small bag, later in the week? Dunno. That would be a lot of paper or whatever else to bring to fill in the increasing volume of sublimation space otherwise.
As for cracking a window... we will know, being aware of the situation, what to do. I suppose it is only damn fools who have no clue what they are dealing with that run into serious problems. Choke out and never know why. Spooky though.
Yeah, as to women. *grins* And yet... they are not alone in this! Heck, in my experience I consider them abecedarian, I a sophist, on this particular topic. Even if they are the ones who flame the brightest, it is I who sets the blaze and enjoys the toasting. Yum! Personally, I like that game.
ReplyDelete*sizzles as I remember*
There is this option: if you eat the steaks early in the week, and then pre-grill the hamburgers, keeping the cooked meat on plain ice until reheating them for consumption, you could get by on just enough dry ice to get there and last the first few days.
ReplyDeleteOn that note I was curious, have you seen anywhere what they charge for wet ice and for how large a bag?
Hmm, a thought. The idea of warming precooked burgers though... That never really works. Eating the steaks up front is no problem though!
ReplyDeleteAs to ice. It is $3 per bag, 7# of chipped/crushed or 10# of block (I'm not sure if cubes or solid block)(all give or take just a little bit, perhaps) - and, six bags for $15. Not bad, really. I expected it to be ridiculously spendy. Good to see they aren't being pirates. Google Microsoft, but I repeat. Ha!
I tried one of the cans of chili I bought at Costco.
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...meh.
Back to the drawing board. Oh it'd keep body and soul together, but I was hoping for better.
Actually at $3 per bag it is about double what I could pay locally. Better hit my bank for a wad of $1 bills then...
ReplyDeleteKept well wrapped against moisture and in the bottom of the wet ice pile, I can't imagine a pack of burgers will thaw out much over a week, let alone go bad that soon.
ReplyDeleteWith you determined to go this path, I may have to reconsider and add a few ribeyes to my stash as well. I can actually live on one ribeye and very little else per day. A handful of almonds maybe, a couple cups of coffee and that's all I need.
By the way, you have a hell of a memory. As I wake from decades of sleep, I realize when a topic comes up you can find a more recent, or even long time back, iteration of the notion. Careful how you count, you might find things in the shadows. Yes, I am waking in ways I had forgotten were possible. I will rarely see everything again, unless that is called for... again. But I am beginning to see much. Then again, even in my dreamscapes, I have suspected much.
ReplyDeleteEven sleeping, dragons see much.