While I am still here I still have to do regular things.

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I really wasn't feeling up to tackling trash and recycling.  I am not sure if recycling is tonight.  Even so, it is out along with the trash.  I also did some work in the kitchen.  I am finally able to see some of the table top!  Oh hush, it wasn't that bad.  Just dry things, like egg cartons, ziplocs that weren't used or returned, plastic shopping bags, medical kit, and such.  A few more sessions in there and I might get enough cleared, and any cleaning needed, to consider sharpening knives.

I couldn't do some of the things I wanted.  Trash and recycling took what little wind I had.  But those two things weren't all.  I mixed another, and the last, batch of orange juice.  I am pretty much better, from the cold, I am simply not recovered.  As well, I mixed and redid the kefir.  I am amazed, for as long as that stuff just sat, that it didn't go bad.  And, yes, my sniffer is good enough to know.  I have never tried it with whole whipping cream.  Tonight, since I had some that will be timing out in a few days, I put that in... filling one quart and half filling another quart, then adding milk to make that more of an half and half.  Then I filled an half gallon jar with enough to get that going.  The kefir drink and grains all smell fresh.  I did cycle through three half gallon mixes to help revivify, which seems to have worked.  I thought I could have started on actual kefir the last time.  I didn't out of an abundance of caution.

The half gallon of kefir won't be sampled tomorrow though.  I want to give it time to set up a bit.  I thought about just adding much of the kefir grains back in, then letting it double steep.  Lots of options.  But between running out of steam on that project, and being curious as things stood, I just let it go as was.  I'll give it, perhaps, three days in the fridge, while double steeping the half gallon that is currently producing kefir.  The quarts?  Dunno, I'll just play those by ear.  On the good side, I think I could take packets of kefir grain with me, using it on the road when I gain access to a few quarts of milk, or such.  Now to practice with sprouts, again, and how to do that in a canteen or something.  Just vitamin C, and some other green foods, possibly produceable in winter, when and where all other such items are gone.  And, if truly starving... some of those green things might lure a deer close enough to eat.  Cicadas, deer... rain or not, green bits, thick milk... food, baby, it's what it takes.

I did write an email to an old friend.  He says he is bored, or not happy with life.  Perhaps a trip, to dump a bum to his fate in the Great White North would cheer him.  It may be the last chance he has to visit with me.  Ought do it just for that, if a friend he ever was.  Not my choice.  Maybe the lad has gotten too old for adventures himself.  If I hear nothing soon, I will know.  Most likely next spring, the the spring after.  Though I might be cutting loose here when required and figuring my way closer to there sooner.

I just took a few Tylenol.  I'll probably have another ogre sized sip of orange juice.  I think, other than that, I am done.  Good night.