A quick shower and... I don't know.

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I'm at it, early, and well.  A little spike in the heat first thing does help, or can.  I still have clean clothes picked out from my last attempt at getting out.  Yes, a fine day out of the cave should be in store.  A bit of grocery shopping and .22 bullets if I can find them, and lots of them.  Each pay day, save today, if I can get two 400-500 bullet packs I will, until I have four thousand?  If I want to shoot, I buy a pack that day, just adding to my lot and making sure I don't spend down my bullet larder.  I swear I had 6k.  And while I shoot 100-200 per outing...  While that adds up, it...  Hmm, going to have to watch that all much more carefully.

The sky is still cloudy so no shooting today.  We are nearing freezing, but not for the year, not here, not yet.  I suspect I best look to what is out there and take what is available though.  Still, the only peppers that I saw were jalapeno... useless to me, little better than bell peppers as a flavor additive, or at least these.  There might be some others though.  Not enough to make a sauce, but not bad for adding in to other things perhaps.  Diced and added to beans and burger, or put in with spaghetti sauce.  Hmm, yeah, something.

The plan is for noon, high noon.  No shooting, just some goofing and getting out of our perspective caves.  He says the heart doctor he saw believes he is a fine candidate for the valve surgery.  Right through the sternum is the plan.  The problem is the doctor won't treat him unless he quits smoking.  That is nearly impossible for some people, that doctor knows it.  I told my friend to get a different doctor.  That surgeon is an idiot, and would see him die for his own pet peeve, as it is nothing more.  My friend has gone through some intense surgeries, including a two part amputation of his leg.  Half his foot first, then the rest of the leg to the knee some years later.  He can handle surgery, quitting smoking won't help that much, if at all.  Damned prick surgeon.

My friend is thinking about quitting, and that would be fine if he wants to and can.  The two shouldn't be conflated.  I did suggest he not go with the 12.5mg patches most clinics try to put out, it simply isn't enough to help quit.  Go with the 21 mg.  Can't smoke with either though, I told him.  As for cost, I suggested that a month of patches is about equal to a carton of cigarettes, so if he isn't smoking, the cost is not higher, and probably lower since he smokes slightly more than a carton a month.  He has another friend who is also thinking about quitting smoking.  That would help, since the guy is right there and a current smoking partner.  It's a tough row, that first few months, but it would be good.  I have quit tobacco before.  I just got around a smoker too soon.  Actually several times.  I wouldn't try to quit now, even with that no longer being a problem.  My brother quit and his teeth are falling out.  We kill off the good, and bad, bacteria when we chew.  That doesn't come back, or fast enough, or something.  They never tell the whole truth.  I think, last I heard, my brother said he lost three teeth, and the rest are... troubled.  I just won't do that.  I'll support my friend, if that is his wish, and advise him.  Either way.  Still, he needs to go to another surgeon.  I see they are implementing Zerocare one Zero doctor and surgeon at a time already.

Yeah, on to a shower.  Later.