Really good cycles.

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I can't be sure when I went to bed.  It was actually much earlier in the evening than usual, I believe.  After 20:00, though how close to 21:00 I just can't be sure.  And, no, I didn't get out yesterday.  I had a tough time staying awake.  I don't feel worn, or tired, more like a sense of weight on me.  I got out three times this week, I suppose that just caught up with me.  I will see if the main post office is open on Saturdays, but I think they ended that a few years ago.  I have simply never had a reason to be sure until now.  Then again, even if it was open, I can't be sure I would be able to get there.

Sleep was good.  Some mornings I wake up slightly cranky.  I don't think I have pillow setup, or familiarity, down yet.  Usually it passes.  I often have that cranky body morning feel, this is just worse than it used to be.  Thankfully, I am usually not awake solidly enough to suffer much, I just notice it.  By the time I am more fully awake the pain is gone.  Gearing the mind and body to being awake is quite a trick.  I think back to when there were phone operators, who pulled this cord, and plugged it there, and so on.  Only there are banks of operators in there trying to establish, or re-establish, connections where they are supposed to go.  Nothing new.  I won't even say the operators are slower.  While there might be a lot more connections to make than when I was younger, the process has always been a bit painful and slow for me.  Not a morning guy.  I have always thought noon should be morning, and that should be pushing things.


I am enjoying the cool of fall.  I suppose it has actually gotten cold hereabouts, from time to time, we missed a good deal of that cold spell that hit the rest of the nation to our east.  We did get some spill, but not the brunt or depth.  I actually think the weather has been, for my conscious mind, optimal.  A jacket when I go out, but it can be open my body adjusts.  That might be what is helping.  I just can't be sure. I am enjoying the weather.  Lots of snow, if that comes, will blunt that a bit.  If I am looking forward to some snow.  I am still hoping to break out the snow shoes and traipse around my backyard, then maybe find other places to go.  Long walk, short path to cliff, you say?  Don't tempt me.  :p  Oh, I'll probably get there.  It's my sort of luck.  I'm still not sure if my luck is a bug or feature, mind you.  I've seen and done things you honestly can't.  Not even I survived all of it, I just didn't stay dead.  The snow shoes are just to get me ready to camp up and out there.  Perhaps even become a mountain man for a week or more at a time.  For me, the stuff of dreams.

Today?  Well, I don't know!  The connections haven't been made that far.  Hmm...  I'll check about the post office, just in case.  I'll cook another corned beef, adding cabbage and carrots.  I love splitting out the cabbage, as I get the hearts to munch on.  I have enough potatoes still.  Oh, and those red "new" potatoes are really good in it.  I think I do like those much better.  My mom, on this as other food things, was right.  I just rarely bought those types, rarely=never.  But this time remembered, and since I was buying them specifically for this meal, I did buy them.  I would also like to tinker on a few things, including the little heater I bought for the garage.  I don't know if any of it will get done.  Any job I go to do usually takes longer to just set up, then find tools, then arrange, than it does to do.  The jobs are often five to thirty minutes.  The set up can take an hour or two.  Bleh.  Focus, potentially being an issue, is the key.  Focus?  Both?  Never mind.  A punch line to a stupid joke.  Ah, but one more line connected.  I think it was the wrong connection though.

Oh, and another shower.  I've been loving those.  Almost daily.  I've been working on my feet and other rough patches with the pumice stone.  Hmm... if I make it to town, I will search for one or two types of lotion/salve.  Even with that foot stuff, my hands are really doing much better.  Thankfully, as I wasn't looking forward to trying to find another soap.  I like peppermint and liquid, and a relatively pure soap.

Later.