Awake and started.

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While making coffee for the morning, I gathered the few dishes needing washed and set those and the pot used for eggs, to soak.  I suppose I could just rinse the egg pot out, I just... want to be sure.  I looked over the kitchen while I was doing all that, and think I can get it knocked out in pretty short order.  I had breakfast, then went back to waking up.  Yeah, it just takes a while.  I was a little surprised I got the dishes going.  It's not just an energy thing, it's also that until I wake up, seeing what needs to be, or even could be, done is... well... often that just isn't present in me.  Sure, I could see a charging bull and deal with it, but the little shit just doesn't configure in my bean, usually.

Of course, I review blogs, check a few out of the way news sources that have a better chance of hitting what is important, or close enough that I can draw a line to what is really happening, though just as often, with any news source, I keep an eye out for what is being emitted.  It's often the black holes in the news that tell more than anything.  They do, indeed, set out to deceive.  Politicians, corp, and newsmen are in the same game, self-enrichment as the base, with deception used as a means of cover.  I did run across a story that I found interesting.

It is suggested, from a major study, that hand grip strength is the best tell for longevity.  A solid hand grip, and your time is predictably longer.  It is more of a predictor than blood pressure readings, or... anything else.  Further, it isn't just heart failure related.  A strong grip means you have a better shot at simply living.  Even when education, age, tobacco use, levels of activity, and some other things, are all covered, hand grip still is the best indicator of a future stroke or heart attack, or as I mentioned, other forms of death.

Okay, so how is it, that at my age, with my health condition, I still have an Olympic (by the charts for men) level of strength of hand grip?  Literally, not figuratively.  And that before I started to push these last months.  I can only guess what it is now... better.  I haven't worked hand strength, save for a short while.  I quickly became stronger then the tools I was using for that, the hand gyros, and never found anything to replace them.  Just toys, now.  Hmm... I ought to see what they have out there.  Thing is, you really have to go in stages, just as when you get stronger, you add weight.  Unfortunately, most such equipment is... limited as to how adjustable they are.  They really ought to make a simple gripper with replaceable springs.  Hmm... might be able to build just such a thing myself.  I'll bet there is some business around who can mill springs of various thicknesses, all the same length, to fit a couple of simply produced grippers.  I'll think on it.  A side thing, but you have no idea how much having a solid grip increases your ability to strength train.  Plus, I'm doing more and more... fabrication.  I decided to build my own stick anchor, for example.  Depending on how things go, I might even sneak in putting it together yet today.  I'm going with silicon instead of JB Weld to hold in a sharp bolt, if I may need to cut off the actual bolt head.  The rest of it should be good.  Oh, and when I screw into hold the dowels, I'll sort of use them more as spacers than on into the wood.  Silicon will help with that.  I'll be skipping the camera mount, for now.  I'll think about it in the future.

Well... I should get to the kitchen before the window of opportunity is gone.  Got a lot of things I want to do, a few things that would be nice to get done, and always more.  Always more.  Later.