Now THAT was some sleep.

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Doing good, taking medicine, picking back up.  I took pictures last night.  I think enough that I will be able to put up a few pictures.  Some didn't come out well at all, others were very good.  I will look through them again.  I may take a few more pictures of the trees with lights.  Those are the ones that are questionable.  They are really tricky.  Yeah, perhaps a bit more research on Christmas light photography, specifically.  The whole scene I was able to do, but just those not so much.  And I installed the new software on the laptop, then transferred the pictures easily enough.  I will have to learn more about the software.  Perhaps I can figure it out well enough to use the pictures I have.

I went to bed at a reasonable hour, given my current sleep cycle.  My cycle isn't perfectly round, shall we say.  But it is rather consistent, mostly.  It was foggy, and I assume overcast as well.  It was a pretty, but dark, day when I went to bed.  I ended up sleeping until about an hour ago.  I slept hard, a bit too hard.  It won't throw me.  It was simply a bit painful to wake.  That will pass quickly, is already going.  I suspect sleeping in the day, in such dark, was the culprit.  I overslept a bit.  I had hoped to be to town early in the afternoon.  My friend called twice.  I will call him back and check, shortly.

All good though.  I need to buy fresh onions, for menudo.  You really need onion on top, and cheese.  I have the cheese, but will need to grate that as well.  I may keep freshly grated cheese pretty much on standby, as I begin learning the fine art of the omelet, and begin trying to keep myself in more regular vittles.  As well as onion, and perhaps fresh garlic.  These three things work with much of what I enjoy, whether Mexican, Standard American, or European variant food.  To figure out how to add a few vegetables would be nice as well.  Spinach, kale, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, as well as fruit once in a while.  I need to increase my consumption while holding calories down, bumping how often I eat while decreasing portions.  It's a tricky thing, but I am beginning to get past feast and starve mode... or... at least the possibility is becoming a possibility itself.

If I take care of food a little better, I may be able to begin exercising a bit.  I know it will always be... variable.  But if I can make these things a more reasonable part of my day, I will improve.  It will be slow, stumbling, up, and down.  It is, though, finally... maybe... within my grasp.  Some dead don't stay dead.  All dead are not equal.  I have suggested that I do have some minor jealousy for those who see death once.  And yet, I can't deny some fancy, humor, and pride, in having lasted through my atomic winters.  Life can be such a gritty thing.  And it can be a joyous gift, a fabulous gift, even in the dark if you know there is light and can believe without seeing. 

Well, I best make that call.  Perhaps to town, and then some cleaning tonight.  Back to getting the cave sorted back out.  I never did steam vac the living room.  That is my next goal, after sweeping and mopping the kitchen and bathroom.  I'll tinker with things over the weekend, might even get to them, unless rest is needed.  If so, I will have things ready, and the little distractions tended, by early next week.  The vacuum and then steam vacuum will be used next week, probably by Wednesday at the latest, on Sunday at the earliest... assuming something doesn't throw everything off a bit.  Good day.