Getting it.

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A load of laundry is going.  The dishes have been washed and are sitting in a rinse.  I'll finish them in an hour, just as the laundry will be ready to kick over.  Then maybe a shower, working out, and then maybe into town?  Not sure.  Well, at least I have gotten this far.  Beats the last... week, two now?

I do change my clothes often.  Daily, sometimes more though rarely.  I was a bit surprised to see how few clothes had piled up.  I have a medium load of darks, maybe a light load of wool socks and maybe one of synthetics.  What I consider falling down now just isn't like the good old days, apparently.  I can recall, just six months ago, having to do three or four loads of darks alone.  Then a load of each of those.  Don't remember how long it took to pile up like that... didn't seem all that long but it must have been.  Some things I can wear several days, pants... some things not so much.  Sometimes shirts, if no company is expected, but only twice.  Even the dishes... just a few.  Even in my fall I was doing them at least weekly.  Just seems odd.  Pleasing but odd.

Tomorrow, I mean hopefully after hitting the bench then grocery shopping, and then my sleep period, I still hope to hit the trail.  Just with the 30 pound pack and a canteen or two, or maybe the camelbak bladder if I can fit it into the pack.  I think even the small pack has a place for it.  It has it's own sheath, I just don't think it would be right to wear a pack over it.  That's just for a barebones dayhike or something.

While waking, and trying to digest dinner, I was reviewing camp food.  Dehydration really looks like the best plan for a longer hike.  Freeze dried or dehydrated, it's not the best of foods.  Freeze dried is just a bit pricey.  Dehydration at home seems to be the plan.  And there are plenty of videos.  I found one, in particular, very helpful.  It wasn't just a "do this".  It was both show and tell, and simple enough.  Plus it covered enough foods so that I could make some sense of things.  I would call it a beginners compendium.  There one before this video, I may go look at it too.

Lately, when I am not doing something... which for the last bit has been often, I have been digging for data on the topics that interest me, will serve me well, and trying to figure some things out.  I have even been looking at various other braid methods.  Doesn't hurt when the shower and teller isn't so hard on the eyes, mostly.  Still, it would be cool to get a couple other braids tested.  Simplicity is part of the rule, but effectiveness is also a goal.  With fine, almost baby, hair, control is complicated.  Could use goop, but that makes the hair dirty, very quickly, at least for me.  Then again, I can do a french braid in... three minutes?  And I can wash my hair braided.  At least once, maybe twice, but it gets pretty rough, useless to it's goal, after washing and sleeping on it even once.  Three minutes, though.  And, this skill might well translate into strengthening rope.  If I don't have heavy enough cordage, braiding what I have might just work.  I ought to check on that too, come to think of it.

Yeah, it looks like I might be at least trying to get back on the trail.  Finishing the dishes, working out, then a trip to town and the post office on the way back.  If I do that, even if I can't pull off "tomorrow", I'll be happy.  Pull them both off, I might just buy some beer and see about a Friday night special.  The type that is legal, and for me at least, at this time, relatively safe.  Uhmbeer.  Ogre term for beer, in case you didn't know.  I'll skip the whiskey, but might buy a bottle of that and some vodka, for future episodes... in a month or three.  I'm down to just a fifth or a case anymore.  And just once every few months, at least when I go large.  If I'm not in on it, though, can't catch the breeze, I am just as likely to have two beers and sleep it off.  Well... two of my beers.  :p

We'll see.