Fighting for sleep.

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Getting to bed was a bear, then staying asleep became a trick all on it's own.  Then, of course, waking up became nearly a fool's errand.  *grin*  Yeah, it gives me something to go for.  And I did all three.  A slight headache but that's fine.  I'm almost out of other pain.  Never mind.  Just know that I'm, mostly, chuckling about it all.  When I did sleep, I slept well.  Won't knock it altogether.

As to what I will be doing today?  I've got my list.  But first I have to wake.  Not sure what I will actually get done, if anything, but the intent is there.  I have my orders splayed in front of me.  All my tools are at the ready.  Hmm, I will be firing the grill before too long as well.  I'll be experimenting with grilling potatoes today, while I am at it.  Keeps the heat of cooking outdoors as well.  It's cool in here, for now, but that won't last so I want to enjoy the cool as long as it does last.  Sure hoping for a cooler summer this year.  Last year was all hot, and dry, all summer.  No reprieves worth mentioning.  Oh, I think it got down to 85 a day or two if it then made up for it with even more days above what was already above average as an average.

I dreamed of having a shop and all the tools and equipment I could even imagine, plus all the supplies, motors, valves, and such that I could want.  I tinkered up a storm, a one man Santa's shop.  Building off-roaders, a couple of various trailers including one that I could switch out the platform as a flatbed, box, or camper trailer.  Welding, bolting, mechanical, motor, electrical... wood, metal, engineered, solid.  In at 6:00 out at 20:00, only a few lost tools, bits, and foul words per week.  Welding hots can loose the tongue faster than almost anything else.  Especially when you thought you were well covered.  *@%#$#*  (In layman's terms)

I'm hoping to get that faucet tested then back in, then on to the bathroom.  After those, I have to straighten the cave!  I'm an ogre, but even I have standards.  And I am well outside those lines.  Toss, and break down, and sort, and arrange.  I will probably need a week just to get some order back to my dwelling.  But, when I am through with valves and plumbing, and on to cleaning, I will be able to relax and get into town.  I told my friend I would get him down to Ogden, I believe, for a birthday dinner.  Late is that hour.  But crippled is crippled, and focused on a job through it is just what it is.

The next bigger tool on my list is a good wet/dry shop vac.  Not sure if they are all junk, or if they make decent ones yet.  Sometimes, because QC is nearly gone, it behooves one to go bottom dollar cheap and just replace them when they die.  Spending more doesn't always mean better, and middling is just more money for the same as cheap.  I'll... ask around, look at reviews, and such.  Beside keeping the shop clean, and other household and automobile uses, I can hook it up to my sander, router, and bench grinder, and there are some other tools it will eventually work with, such as a table saw and miter saw.  Yeah, ambitious.  But... you should see what I have and where I started.  I've come a third of the way, and starting from, essentially, nothing. 

You can have what you wish.  You just can't have it all today.  Nor, perhaps, would you want it.  Overload, in many ways.  Get a tool, as you need it.  Learn it.  Then, as your collection expands your capacity, fill that capacity with the next line of tools, learn those and fill those needs, on to the next set, and so on.  The first, simpler, tools were had in about two years.  It's not a perfect set, but it is a start.  I've pushed, slowly, into the next set of tools, filling out the first set more fully as well, and doubling down on some pieces.  The next set will be very slow, due to expense, electrical demand and the need to fix that, and size.  As I mentioned, a welder, table saw, maybe a router table that just uses my hand router, miter saw of some sort, and maybe even a planer.  Who knows.  But that is where I am going.  And... getting there, a tool, a bit of work, and this and that, at a time.  Ugh.  I don't have a tool I haven't used at least a half dozen times, and don't have projects in mind to use for in the future.  Who knows, I might even learn to measure twice, cut once and integrate lefty loosey, righty tighty.  No promises, but those are on the list.  :)

Well, I ought to get back to waking and then figure out if today is a do day or a mostly sit day.  I was thinking though...  You know...  I might be a bit grumpy about off days.  Well, no "might be" about it.  But...  I am sleeping and waking on a pretty regular basis.  I am keeping days and nights fairly straight, if that will probably always go out of alignment once in a while, it looks like I sleep on a pretty regular basis.  It is my awake time that, more than not, shifts.  Not sure I can do much about that, quite yet.  Yes, life has improved.  I even remember into the bad times, and can carry ideas forward from in there.  Life is much better.  I'm almost becoming human, adult, whatever.  May never quite reach full health, but every step closer is... just that.

Good day.