Not even close to perfect.

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The day is what it is.  Even so, I am not completely disheartened.  Given that I feel rough, remain a bit too tired, and all else, I did okay today.  Some of the dishes, enough to begin working on jerky.  The jerky process required the trays, then draining the marinade and slicing the meat, and finally stacking the trays.  I am comparing tray liners to bare trays this time.  Though... I am sure enough that the bare trays work better that I only tried a couple of trays with liners.  Besides, the tray liners tend to warp even at vegetable temps.  The dehydrator has a number of settings, from 90 F (for herbs and such) on through four or five different settings, to 160 F (for jerky).  Even at the 135 F for fruits/vegetables, the tray liners tend to curl a bit.  I suppose turning them more often might help.  Well, and I won't run them overnight anymore.  Just a safety concern.  If what I am working has had a good six or more hours of dehydrating in, when I shut it off for the night, it should be close enough to not have a great health concern.  Plus, it'll dry more through the night even without air or heat.

Yep, next month I'll probably purchase thirty pounds of beef, and let them slice it there again.  It'll take a bit.  I can only do about six, maybe seven, pounds of the meat at a time.  And it takes... a day and an half, maybe two, given that I'm not running it at night* anymore.  Well, and it needs a full day and night of marinading (imho).  So, even if I was keeping up on all of that, stepping it through precisely**, it would take three days per 6.5 pounds, times six full loads, which would mean eighteen days to run 30 pounds, give or take.

I've done a few other things, odds and ends.  Nothing fancy, not fast enough to really satisfy, and I'm not feeling the best.  All good though.  I haven't keeled over, or hit a dead stop, or gone into severe bouts of some sort of weird pain or other.  Look, dissatisfaction with pace does suck.  But I have had much worse, just a few weeks back.  I'll keep going.

Looks like my friend called today.  I didn't hear, and didn't notice, so...  I'll call him tomorrow.  I'm too busy trying to get things done, and was in the middle of things anyway, today.  No time to play.  It's a cool day.  Would have been super to get out.  But I can only do just so much, I need to get some of these things done... the meat had to come out of marinade today...  Crap.  Still, I'll... save the next cool day for him.  I'd like to get out and punch some paper too, anyway.

Later.

*Night means sleep cycle, not necessarily actually sundown... if that has been the norm lately. 

**not going to happen.  If it does, I'll get someone to buy me lotto tickets the next time that is high.