Today already?

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Hehe.  When you are sleeping as need be, regardless of what the sun is doing, the notion of today, tomorrow, morning, afternoon... all go away.  There is only various notions of the past, now, and various levels of consideration of the future.  Near, medium, distant, futures, for example.  More, when time isn't progressing as I think many suggest time progresses for them, even those notions are a bit odd.  While not immortal of flesh, I can see, through these oddities or maladies of my flesh or nature, a very small beginning of the understanding of true immortality.  That doesn't work in this world, which is within a notion of time.  If you were merely born to immortality, you would have gone mad.  All who are have gone through that, many remain insane.  Beside all the other reason for a soul to be sent through flesh, life, suffering, joy, and death, this is no small part of that.  In computer/console games, this is the training area.  Just... thinking.

Anyway, yes, regardless of all else, for me, it is already "today".  I went to bed at about 13:00, plus some change.  I woke for supper, if I can't say when that was.  Delicious, by the way.  Often when I wake for dinner I can't eat, or much.  In part because I can't taste, and what of flavors I can taste seem to be the ones I don't like.  Not tonight.  I blindly consumed with relish.  It wasn't just hunger either.  I went right back to bed.  I wondered how long it would take me to fall back to sleep with a full... zzz.  Next thing I knew, it was "today".  Today started at about 23:30, give or take some change.

I am working on another post.  Another dream.  Not sure I will post it.  If you want it, I might send it via email.  I merely ask that you not pass it on.  I have my reasons.  My dreams seem to be... hmm...  Just, I don't... always see the need to post everything.  Nor do I have a want to do so.  Oh, and I'll pass on the double dream post of passions from a while back, if you want that.  Email me or go without.  I don't care.  I'll just copy, paste, send... adding no comment.  Feedback is fine.  I'm not touchy about any of it, just... not feeling like sharing with potential strangers, antagonists, or children.

I haven't finished the other post.  Dang but the dreams have been involved lately.  Or more, I am writing more detail really, as there is more involved.  I'll do that later.  I decided to write a daily-daily journal entry, then figure out what to start on today.  Someone kindly remembered an old post with knots in it.  Some of those might work, some not so much.  The last knot, the backhand hitch, might serve some things.  But not all.  The others... not for rigging the structure to the raft.  I don't think.  I'll... look them over, with that specifically in mind, before finally deciding.  I remind, I am just, sort of, in the waking process.  Coffee!  I need coffee.

I do hope to cook several batches of grains, only two thirds to completion, then dehydrate those.  While I am cooking that, I need to complete more of the kitchen, finish the last of the dishes, and make space for the vacuum sealer.  While it may well take a day to dry the grains, I want the sealer ready immediately.  And I would like to practice just a bit, perhaps setting up a couple of smaller bags from the roll(s).  I haven't looked at what came with it, but I think an 8" bag roll for sure, maybe an 11", and some various sized premade sample bags.  I just want to make sure it works.  Why cook, even partially, then dehydrate grains, you ask?  Fair question.  First, doing so shortens the cooking time.  On the trail, if no fires can be used, all fuel is humped in.  Besides being a bit risky (in my mind), it is a limited consumable.  Figuring out how to conserve it is vital.  So, precooking, partially, cuts the cook time down by a lot.  Further, pack size is always an issue, as is weight.  Water is a large part of weight and volume.  Remove those, and you shrink both weight and volume hugely.  Precooking, again, helps here.  It opens the dry food to moisture, allow more of what is already in it to escape, collapsing the volume and weight more than it already was.  Fair question, that's my understanding.

If I get the kitchen in pretty good shape, dishes done, and food ready for dehydration as quickly as I am hoping, I then want to hit the kayak.  Hopefully to have that, pretty much, put together before it starts heating up.  Yesterday ended up being a rather cool day, despite the sun.  It looks like it only got into the 80's.  Hiking sounds good, but not while I'm digging in as I am.  It's not reasonable.  However, if the weather holds, and I get these chunks of things done, and can hold on a bit, I might truly be able to begin keeping that window open for opportunity.  I may have to drop other minor things I am doing, or planning.  I may pay a price.  I might... this, that, the other thing.  But... if I can keep up, and get these other (to me) big issues solved, I might yet end up out and on my way, and maybe even in the heat.

So, that's the deal.  Hmm... I'll go get the first load of grain going, then hit and reset the dishes.  Oh, but first set the coffee so that when I finish the first bits of work, I can have breakfast.  A couple eggs, a bit of the hash, and some coffee.  It's not sexy food, but it darn well works.  Those eggs are tripling my efforts at becoming stronger.  Gotta feed muscle.  Grains might be helping too, but are good for me, I can tell, whatever else.  Get em' going, neph-boy... moonlights burning.  Kee-yah!  :p