Awake.

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Oh, that waking thing, that can be crazy.  You think it's one time, or another, and a cycle or two of the snooze bar plus some dreaming, and I was thinking it was after 3:00.  No fuss, just... *sigh*  I do try, and I have been pushing it, and I am pushing it on this specific thing.  I couldn't get everything packed and stowed before hitting it.  My mind had turned to mush and while my body was still good, save for a cranky back (but I've always had that! *grins* ), my body knew that I didn't have the whip of will or a very good means of guiding it anyway, so it slipped out the back and went "fishing". 

I did get the bulk of what I am taking in.  Water jugs were filled and loaded, tent and such went in, table, hibachi, all of the big stuff.  What I have left is the little irritating stuff, like toiletries, food, and such.  Oh, and I found a pan I had set aside.  Oh my.  Yeah, well, while I was cleaning out the soda cooler I went ahead and set the pan to soak.  Oh yuck was that a nasty one.  But stainless is good for it, same with cast, if you... urhm... goof.  I really have been pushing it.  Not just for me, but for any man, if only for a few days.

I went to hop on the machine and was told XP was dead unless I do something.  Doubting there would be a fix, but needing some wake-up time with coffee anyway, I pressed "do it now, on the phone".  Okay.  That ended up being a LOT less of a problem then I had anticipated.  I thought I would be fighting for my 'allowance' to use their software.  Nope, just had to enter eight sets of six numbers, then they spit out a new set of same for me to put in.  Easy enough.  Though my phone, right in the middle of it, decided, for some stupid reason, to ask me, while I needed to use the numerical keypad, if I wanted to add this number to my contacts!  I didn't know how to get that off, and by the time I figured that out, the system had booted me over to a talker (live contact).  I had to do it all over again, by voice, but that went fine.  Other than stumbles from being mostly still asleep, I am now, again, allowed to use "my" computer.  Gah!

So... of course... I wanted to do a post, check email, and see if any points east have been nuked yet.  Don't laugh, and it isn't just foreigners.  This admin is almost stupid enough to go to war with Russia and China rather than use right diplomacy and other tools, and certainly has no interest in allowing the loss of control in a city.  Burning San Diego as an example is not below them, nothing is.  It's... in their thought processes.  A wire loose, a need for control and power they don't legitimately have or even have the wealth of wisdom in order to possess.  Hate, they do, for their base iniquities. 

Cheery lot when I wake.  Ah, but it... gets much better.  When fully awake, I see more, more deeply, and more surely.  Cheers!  :P

Oh, right... the trip though.  Food needs to be packed, and soda et. al.  Toiletries and a few such odds and ends.  I have it pretty much set up, the final cooler is clean, the other is all set, though I need to get some gloves for the readjustment of dry ice and putting food in that.  I put the whole thing in the freezer, after... a few adjustments in there.  Hmm... yeah...  Oh, I best give the girls a meal, my last, and more a gift than a feeding...  Oh, and a shower.  Too much.  Overload.  I'm hoping to have that all done and loaded, an hour after I start, but... urhm... first I have to wake, and then...  That's pretty tight time.  Gah!

Have a good week.