So much for hunger.

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Oh, sure, I was terribly hungry.  Hungry beyond hunger.  For many things.  It seems hunger is not enough, at this point, to get me going.  Well, quickly.  It is still there, working, under the hood, like an idling engine.  I went to bed rather early.  Legs, of some sort, simply gave out.  Down I went.

I had too many things between home and town, the snow on the driveway being the last and ultimately too high a hurdle.  Another shower shortly.  Time to air dry as I plot an attack on that.  And, then, at some point, I will be hitting the drive with whatever it takes.  I hope it hasn't been an ice sheet.  I'll know in a few hours.  If it is still fluff, mostly, I will be golden.  After that, a break.  Probably a longer one.  Whatever is needed.  Then a trip to town.  Gasoline, groceries, and a meal with my friend if I am able.  I best hit the sidewalk, too, and with salt if that is called for. 

I am sleeping and waking in pretty good lots.  The cycles are pretty solid, reasonable, right.  Which is fine, in one sense.  For maintenance, it is perfect.  For kicking the cycle over to days, it isn't quite as good.  I don't have the energy, always, to do and to kick my sleep cycle over, or maintain it.  Not alone.  Odd how having someone around helps.  Actually, not just anyone.  A roommate or parent doesn't quite work.  A woman type does.  Even when I wasn't on medicine.  I haven't figured that out yet.  It wasn't a strain.  Oh, once in a while, my sleep would alter.  But it would right itself within days.

Something I would like to find is a source of clear kerosene.  As I am looking over preps, and gearing up a bit on that, I have been considering a heater.  Further, kerosene can be used in oil lamps and for other things.  It lasts well, as does actual lamp oil.  It is far less expensive, lamp oil costing four or more times as much and lasting no longer.  A slight smell, at least at certain points, is the difference.  I do have a heater that will, mostly, work for emergencies.  But it is a bit trickier to work with.  The fuel bottle has to be outside, and there might be more co, or co2, build up with it.  Great for general garage use, not so good for home heating.  No, not for long term.  The stock of fuel to maintain these things for extended periods would be... untenable.  Still, 20 or 40 gallons of kerosene, and five gallons of lamp oil, wouldn't be unreasonable.  Though, even with that, it would be best to use that, turning over stocks, perhaps adding to stocks of use requires it, would be wise.

Every prep has to start out small, often incorrectly, then mushroom by use and understanding.  Those who buy every possible tool, equipment, consumable, and such, but never implements those, will find that they have spent far too much on a very thin line of backups.  When they have an emergency, they may simply not have enough to do enough with what they have.  A huge quantity of beginning gear, but not enough of the daily daily.  It isn't an activity, prepping that is.  It is a lifestyle.  One that is difficult to enter, with the ease of just going to the store we have today.  The old wisdom, in the winter, of showering first in cold water, then cleaning with warm water, as with prepping, has been lost. 

How deeply to go, how deeply some of us even can go, is a whole other issue.  I think, as I work and explore.  Oh, why tools when I use few and may not be able to use all?  Because someone else can use them.  And, you might be surprised how many tools I can, and have, used.  Further, need provides some capacity that might not currently exist.  I've been hungry enough to know what one can do to eat.  I've gone beyond hunger, for hunger, even outside of life, and back.  Don't worry about me.  I'll... make it, or not.

My clock suggest that is just a smidgen past 5:00.  A shower, then, now.  A bit of time to dry.  Then to dress and be ready when the energy wave returns.  I sure hope sweeping will get the job done.  Later.