Rest and sleep.

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I do need it and I am getting it.  I checked the doors, but it seems none of the packages have arrived.  Which, is, actually, a good thing.  I am not quit ready to hit it again but that wouldn't have mattered.  When the parts arrive, if I can shove on into it, I will.  Tomorrow, most likely.  There is nothing, really, for me to do between now and then.  Technically, if I was hopeful, I could install the faucet and just hope the cartridge is the only problem.  I don't trust, however.  I looked into that old valve, there simply shouldn't have been a problem.  The gaskets were all good, the only strange stuff in there was a black goo, but either that was just factory exterior sealant, or slightly possibly just stuff from the waterlines that collected on the inner sealant goo.  Oh, that might have... no, not the charcoal from r.o., that would have gone through the other faucet.  It's just an unusual substance to have been in the water, after a softener.  I suppose it could be sediment, silt, even as black as it was.  Though it was in places the water didn't seem to go, so...

Hmm, you know though... since the filter is easy to remove, and little work at this point as things are arranged... I could... tinker with the old cartridge a bit more.  While it "seems" to go together only one one... there may be variables in the reconstruction that are not plainly visible to the naked, novice, eye.  I would guess there might be two ways for the ceramic pieces to fit withing the housing, and up to three different ways for the cap of the housing to fit back onto the body.  Look, I'm a learner, not a master.  I was pushing beyond my physical ability a bit, which can limit more complicated thinking.  And... problem solving is exactly that.  One tries to solve the simple, then branches out from there.  Hmm...  I really do wonder.  When I wake, I will give it a bit of a go, perhaps.  I'll need something to mark the different variables so that I can easily track them.  Then I will have to explore what variables are actually available.  It's, really, just an algebra problem, a simple mechanical one.  Two variables and a number of different answers that could be manipulated for, depending on some things, I think.  I might even think on a mathematical problem while I am at it.  Oh... sure... it's simple enough, truly.  My math-fu is simply rustier than one might imagine.  And... when is the last time YOU created an algebra problem from a physical application?  Yeah, so hush.  :p

As odd as I am, in darker ways, I... have a humble nerd heart beating in there too.  It's sort of all I wanted.  It just isn't what I was better at, and the world is a demanding thing.  Your duty is your nature.  My nature was not contemplative.  Still isn't.  I'm just dead enough that the options have slimmed... for good or ill. 

Oh, best clean my pistols before going out shooting.  I'll have to find my actual kit.  I found, and developed one, enough to clean that .22 out a bit.  But that kit isn't what I need for my pistols.  I do believe they need a very serious cleaning.  Semi-autos get very nasty very fast.  I now, even, have a shop bench upon which to tinker more seriously, and without the fear of spilling the cleaning solutions and oils.  I have been cleaning thins the old way I had been taught.  I think I am going to look at how "they" say to do it right...  Look over how others clean their pistols, and see if there is anything new, or something I like better.  Well, and it is something I can do while waking, to get my brain engaged, before hitting algebra and real world variables.  Or... at least working on variables.  It takes more time to make a math problem for a simple set of solutions than it does to just do them, unless you are working on scale with many variables.  But that isn't the point... and you have to start, or restart, small, anyway.

Later.