Hiking today?

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Very maybe.  I just woke.  Temps look good.  I didn't finish resetting my pack but I don't really care.  I will add a bit more food if I go.  When I get to the trailhead, or maybe just in to town, I'll call my mom, leave a message if she doesn't answer.  Just so someone knows.  If she doesn't hear from me by Friday, I'll have her have a local check.  If that fails, then they can send someone out.  I will have enough supplies, and cover, for a good solid week.  If I realize I am not getting anywhere, I'll begin looking for an easy to spot place and setting up camp... staying put.  Someplace easy to see from above and below.  I don't expect it, highly doubt it.  With enough food and having be dropped in nowhere before, I've done pretty well.  The world, as I have suggested, if you listen closely, will tell you where you are and where to go to get roughly where you are going.  Not great for geo-caching, mind you, but better than most devices in the hands of most people.

It seems youtube had devolved.  It started that, just on my blog, I couldn't get the vids to enlarge without crashing, but I could see them.  Other blogs and youtube were just fine.  Then other blogs became problematic, I couldn't enlarge there, either.  But I could at youtube.  Then I couldn't watch them on my blog at all.  Then I couldn't watch them on other people's blogs.  And now I can't watch them on youtube.  I have reloaded flash several times, emptied caches, checked my browser for updates... nothing is working.  Looks like until whoever is causing the problem, or possibly whatever updates are failing to work well with others, music videos are done.  I'm not a true tech.  I can do a few things, check a few things, but there are limits.  I am pretty much at the limit. 

If I get out, or not, I plan on a bit of shopping before heading home.  I probably need to slow up on the kefir, but it is pretty good.  I often over-consume something new.  Homemade really is much better than storebought.  Why?  Perhaps they treat it with stuff to keep it in a specific state.  Perhaps they pasteurize it.  Maybe they add stuff that isn't the real stuff as filler or just because or because the states require it, or...  I don't know.  Homemade is simply better.  I still like milk though too.  The only way for me to have milk, though, is to slow down on the kefir.  I'll have to use willpower to make it just eight ounces, twice a day.  Yeah, I can.  If I can quit tobacco, and watch people smoke in the movies, I can cut the kefir. 

Yes, I'm probably into the third, nearing fourth, week of quitting.  I am keeping with the 21mg patches for now.  I have changed the patch late, gone two days with the same patch (I sometimes get that way with medicine, even food, some sort of... resistance grump), and even went a day without the patch for the same reason as the last.  I'm still a bit off my game.  It is more noticeable at times.  Slower at sudoku, for example.  A bit of a depressed memory.  A bit of extra lethargy.  Not horribly so, just a 20% trim of the recent expected norms.  I'll be good to go in a couple of months.

Oh, and... if it all works, I may stop in at the ranger station and talk them up.  I would like to hear what they have to say, any advice, warnings, and maybe hear if there is anything they need or would appreciate out there.  You never know.  I best get a cup of coffee, then maybe a bite to eat as I wake and get ready.  Later.