An hour, maybe a bit more.

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I wouldn't even call it a nap.  I don't think I slept.  Close.  Something got Sam's attention, probably a tom.  I thought I heard something, thinking back on it.  I wouldn't have remembered the noise otherwise.  And I just wasn't... I was too tense, or something.  Not for fear, just... taught.  I don't blame her, or Sassy for sneaking in and up.  When they sleep with me, I often, usually, am "gently" asleep.  Then again, even when they aren't in there, I don't sleep extremely sound... unless I have pushed things.  Or, sometimes, if I have well and truly over-extended.  Sort of like with iodine imbalance, the symptoms of too much and too little can mimic each other, for many of my problems.

Isn't that the way it is with many things?  Or at least some of the results.  Without a way of dealing with being too hot or cold, hungry, thirsty, and maybe some other opposites, the same results occur (for those things).  Getting grumpy, lethargy, but phases too.  Being too hungry can, at times, make me agitated but unfocused, or lethargic, depending at what stage in that.  I do wonder if I suffer from dehydration.  With the waterpill, and real need for it, though, I'm not sure there is much I can do about that.  It's a condition of the cure, in this case much better than the option... that of being perpetually bloated and, worse, unable to breath well.  Panting your way through life is a dog's way, not a man's, or ogre's.

I went in a bit after 1:00, got out of there a bit after 2:30, if I had to guess.  Not really energetic, actually falling down a bit, I just turned to research.  Tools, gadgets, questions.  One of the things I looked into was iodine imbalance, actually.  I'm not sure I am getting enough.  I don't eat packaged foods, and have been using kosher salt.  I may have to add in regular salt, and have been to a degree but just recently.  Kosher is more expensive, and doesn't really add anything when used for cooking.  It's great for crusting potatoes, if split after backing... or crusting a drink glass...  And it offers more taste per volume, to my notion.  But it's better as an addition while dining, just an empty... and worse an iodine depriver... cooking ingredient.  Just something I figured out and thought I'd pass on.

Why consider iodine?  If I end up somewhere outback, I need to consider some of these small health issues.  Yes, they might not kill you.  Or they might.  There are many conditions and diseases that are gone, now.  But they could pop back up in short order by leaving civilization, or though local, regional, national, or global problems.  While I am considering one, in truth I am considering them all.  So, I have started to think... to try to remember... some of the things which could be a problem, and looking for solutions.  Where I am going, I will BE the doctor.  Well, doctor, cook, surgeon, hunter, butcher, clean up crew, lumberjack, carpenter, perhaps electrician, mechanic, guard, and all else.  It is an impossible task, if I want to live like I do.  Which means one of two things.

Anyway, I may brush my teeth again, and try to hit it.  I feel like I could sleep.  I want to sleep.  That may just not be possible, yet.  Rough, ugly, until something sorts out.