Flipped, flopped, but doing okay or soon.

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I've decided to crack open the painkillers and toss some back.  I hope that will help.  I'm awake, aware, just a bit cranky about the head, shoulders, upper back... bone, muscle, nerve... just off kilter.  The heat, to be sure.  Why I didn't realize I was baking while I was baking I don't get.  Usually I know it.  Sleep being off might be why.  A bit numb when you stay up to "midnight", or later, to get things done.  Still, really, not bad for having pressed two major limits all out of shape.

The lentils worked as a good ham and black bean filler.  A bit bland, this first run, but beans are almost always bland until the ham has had time to infuse them.  The black beans were pretty bland the first few meals.  Well, and beans... it doesn't hurt to cook them several times, over time.  I can't seem to ever cook them enough that first time.  The next meal, and those following... up to some limit... simply improve.  The nice thing about lentils is that you don't really need to soak them, though if you do, you don't have to dump the water... plus they do cook really quickly.  Now, like soup bones, they will thicken whatever... so make sure to add water enough, and then some if it's already a partial broth.  Ham and beans and lentils, oh my!  Oh, and if regular is your ticket, this is your ticket to ride.  First floor... going... down.

With it cooling to the mid 60's, so far, I have some things open and the fans doing their thing.  Almost getting too chill, but I'll take than when and where I can after today.  I was able to sleep today, in the heat, but I need to get that turned around if I can.  Today may have been a start.  I do what I can, if more often than not I don't do much.  I'm bleeding out more life, some days, and more often, than most people will ever know.  Such is why I screech, yowl, howl, and bay.  I have more left to burn off than the sun and moon have light.  Perhaps there is going to be a place in heaven.  If I make it.

Whatever.  Tomorrow I am hoping to do something... whenever I wake.  I don't ever care what it is.  Hopefully more than just one thing.  Say... dishes, and working on camping gear... organizing it?  Or laundry and either of those, or maybe getting my climbing gear together?  I don't know.  Something... real.  The game has played it part, kept me from going down, kept me awake, but didn't allow for much function.  I am ready to try to get back to functioning in the real world.  Later.