Weird wake.

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I snapped awake.  Right around 18:40~48?  Something like that.  The phone range almost immediately.  Dinner.  I had just checked the phone to see if I had missed a call, but I hadn't.  I went to bed around 11:00.  That is one the the longest sleeps I have had in a few days, if not by choice.  Things just work out that way sometimes.  I really like eights hours of sleep.  As I have mentioned, four to six is optimal, or used to be.  While it kept me grumpy, I worked better and harder.  Even without my conditions, this lead to a eventual crash.  With the condition, the crash just comes faster.  Back in the day I just lived through the crash.  Now I... just literally crash.  I don't think I've skinned it too close yet, so that a crash is imminent, but I am working on it.  It is actually a lot harder to get to the crash point these days, but I do give it some serious effort from time to time.

Tomorrow or Thursday I am hoping to get to town.  Well, that is the plan.  Tonight I am going to make some inroads into restoring the cave a bit.  Little bits were done yesterday.  Small things, but they add up.  Few that I had actually planned, just... as I noticed something small enough, I simply did it.  Tonight I hope to hit some of the big and maybe a few small, but what had been on the list.

While I suggested I wasn't going to buy anything, something has been on my mind.  Lighting and to a degree heat.  If electricity goes out, I don't really have anything to put to use immediately.  I have been looking and thinking about this for some time, but in a distracted, unfocused, manner.  Actually, that isn't my usual method even in illness.  I am not sure why my reviews of the data were so irregular.  Was it fear of fire in the home?  No, though there is that.  I have lived with oil lamps before, for months at a time.  My fear is more a respect than something that will cause me to freeze.  Was it that I couldn't decide?  No, that usually draws me to a much more focused approach.  Perhaps it is that I didn't intellectually see the need or utility quite as keenly as I felt it.  If that was the case, that lifted, for whatever reason.  Perhaps the realization that the lamps can provide heat as well as light?  The thing is, after a bunch of research and consideration, last night I did buy a few oil lamps.  Two very small ones, and a larger one.  Along with that, paraffin oil was purchased.  Just enough, really, to try these items.  Hmm, then again, I don't know how long a gallon of this stuff will last.  I will probably also try other fuels.  As winter type weather is closing in, I don't want to go another winter without something beside flashlights.  I do amazingly well in the cold, especially in a shelter out of the wind.  And yet, I would like a little more than hunkering in if electricity goes out.  A small purchase, mind you.  Very small.  The pickled pork hock meat rings were more expensive.  Yes, yes, I do like my doggie treats.

I do some of my rounds right away, when I wake.  A few things just made me laugh.  I'm not a Star Wars fan.  Heck, I don't think I even watched the first one until... the 90's.  They just didn't appeal to me.  More, I sort of avoid what people are going on about.  Still do.  When I look for videos, if I see a specific band, singer, or idea too often, especially if they wrap it in too many different "faces", I avoid it like the plague.  I go looking for things that are more obviously less common, not promoted, old, rare, and unusual.  This is becoming exceedingly difficult on YouTube.  They only want you to find the junk they or their sponsor are selling.  Avoid like the plague, for the most part.  Still, this was, mostly, right on top.  I doubt if they meant it to be, YouTube has become a seller... not of products alone, but of ideas.  And this first video is not an idea they endorse.  It mocks their government sanctioned, corporate enforced (through crony capitalist ties to the government) idealism.  It's not all that funny, it's the realization of what is being mocked and some other things that is funny.  Still...

Oh, and, with Christmas coming up, I thought I'd offer the typical voter, according to some (who seem to be correct given the way some things have worked out) something to help out with their typical life.  Too busy to, you know, look things up, not worried about the little details?  This is perfect for those who elect to let others do their thinking, and with much the same results.

And this I had dug up just the other day.  It shows my level of mirth. 

A bit o' coffee, some wake time... hmm, but first I will reset the rinse soak for the last of the dishes so that in an hour or two I can finish those off and take a shower to kick off my 'day' correctly.  Later.