Up, almost by accident, on time.

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I set the alarm for 7:00.  Didn't hear it, don't remember turning it off.  When I woke, that alarm read 8:42, so I jumped and ran.  Looking for my phone, looking to see if someone was here, trying to figure out clothes and grooming, all in the same moment.  Too much.  Then I heard the phone ring, but couldn't find it.  Followed the sound and... got close enough as it quit ringing.  Cargo pocket...  Yeah.  I tried to call back, but the doorbell rang.  Ah... pants... now... where were those?  Gotcha.  Just one of those mornings.

The basic shade structure is together for the raft.  I will need to drill some holes for tie-ins, to the boat.  I may use pvc glue for some of it.  Finally I need to fit a tarp.  I just can't handle direct sun well.  A hat only does a bit of good, sun block only so much, all efforts are weakened by heat, and some wash off.  I did mention raft, right?  I may get back out and do just a bit more later.  The structure together, while not an absolute two-man job... it sure helped having someone else to hold up this brace while I added an attachment bar, or vice versa.  More so with focus being weak.

I've been doing laundry, and have more dishes soaking.  I'll get trash out, or that is the plan.  That will be it.  The heat out there, already, is starting to oppress.  I'll probably, if I do more work outside, do it later... if coolness returns to any degree.  The rest can go on in spits and spurts.

I realized, as I was falling asleep, that I had eaten yesterday.  The last of the pressure-cooked beef roast.  It was earlier in the day, before noon, perhaps just around 8:00 to 10:00?  Something.  So I had eaten.  Today I have neither eaten nor had anything to drink, tea or water.  Wanted a true fasting, plus, blood sugar level check... 326.  Yeah, my fasting is often higher than non-fasting.  I will be checking my blood sugar at, say, 16:00, then maybe 20:00.  I'm looking for trigger points, points where there might be a real drop in the numbers.  For now tea will continue.  If that seems to be a problem, it may, for a while, go.  Or maybe I'll try a different sugar replacement more heavily, or...  Dunno.

Fasting, today, too.  How long?  Don't know.  If I get a really good drop I may allow something.  It depends on how I feel.  One of the notions I read was of partial fasting... eating less than, say, 500 calories...  Using that partial fasting as a means of breaking into open, or true, fasting... or if necessary keeping that as a slower but surer means of reaching my goal.  I simply don't know about all out fasting.  If you have ever starved because of no will of your own, physical and environmental failure, you... get a little gun shy about the process.  Hurts.  A lot.  And, I always wondered, what if I got lost in starvation?  I have been close before.  Nearly a month of not eating.  Then binging when I finally got access to food.  That, too, is dangerous.  The gut and intestines, and possibly other organs, have shut down.  Slamming them into gear with a feat... things can break.

Still, today, until at least 16:00, no food.  Tea, water, nothing else.  I'm pretty shaky, though it may be more from the heat and no water... should keep water with me when tinkering out there actually.  Or it might just be from the work.  I have been down a good long time this time.  I'll move a bit more carefully, and put some fluid in.  That might care for it.  Later.