I love it when it works.

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I started in on the water softener.  I got about half way down and ran into a problem.  Good time to quit?  Of course.  I just didn't quit.  I got tough.  I have a digging bar breaker, but that was too long.  It said it weighed 16 pounds, but it sure seemed heavier.  I can move 100 pounds, even with one hand/arm.  So I wasn't sure the weight was right.  Yes, it is.  Crazy how heavy that is... it's a steel spear, really, with a chipper on one end.  Crazy.  Anyway, I do have three other breaker bars/hammers.  I just grabbed a shorter one and dug in.  It wasn't too bad, just that a bowl could not scoop through.  Hammer and pull, deeper and deeper, bit by bit.

I dug down to about a bag left in, then made sure that was all loose, then set the device to run.  I checked it a bit ago, it seems to be doing well.  It takes a long time, perhaps two or three hours, to run through a cycle.  It is brining, at the moment.  I don't know what the next step is.  I'll keep checking it.  Then I'll let it go, with low salt, for several days before adding more salt.  I think my problem is this was made for a larger water demand.  Sometimes I use less than two gallons a day.  This thing was made for, thirty to eight gallons?  Yeah, well, yeah.  From now on, unless I have visitors or some woman sneaks up on me, you know how they are, I'll only keep two or three bags in, and check it more often.  Yeah.

I did run the dishes a hot soak, if I hadn't mentioned.  It is cooling down enough to give it a simple wash again, then run a hot rinse.  I also am in the process of washing the toilet.  I might get a night little resettling of the kitchen and bathroom, back to the high point, plus more sweeping and mopping.  Then hit boxes.  I don't know if I can get the cart together, or if so whether I can get it into operation.  But I think I will be happy with the efforts today when all is said and done.

Technically it is nearing dinner, or past.  But I am... able to wait.  Hunger seems to be lessening, as was the plan with keto and intermittent fasting.  Hunger, once you push carbs out or way down, simply fades.  Mealtime becomes very navigable, negotiable, or even skippable.  I may put dinner off until, well, dinner!  Or, if I am busy, and still doing well, I may simply skip a meal today.  I hate having to waste time eating, if I both enjoy the process and would like some energy.  The thing is, if I eat I need to eat large, or I will just tease myself into a great problem.  I do have half a meatzza, and perhaps other courses.  I could put out a container of bean soup.  I am simply trying to create a meal menu that won't take up too much prep and cooking time, cost too many dishes, or etc.  I think I can, but, as mentioned, it has to be enough.  Missing is a very bad thing.  With the other work I am trying to do, this can become clumsy.

I did call my mother.  She sounds well.  Baking banana, zucchini, and... two loves involving those and/or something else, in some combo.  Yeah.  Plus she canned pickles, bread and butter and dill(?) (I know not these things, 'xactly... have to have some things womansplained, if... what?).  And she has tomatoes in the ready for mostly salsa, though possibly spaghetti sauce.  Hmm, 16 quarts of each pickle?  Who knows how much salsa.  She's a mad woman in there, if it is well received.  Well... I DID get a pint of pickled jalapenos.  Does... that count?  :P

I finally slogged through to the part where Barnabus was cursed, bitten, and risen.  Ugh, what a...  Still, it's what they had.  What I am watching seems to be a special.  It is already into two hours, not sure how much longer that runs.  I am hoping the actual series is better, if I think it won't be, at all.  Oh well, ask and you shall receive has the limits of the wisdom of the request?  Oh, it's fine.  A bit of television history, initiated at a beginning.  Archaic, but aren't we all?

Oh, another movie I watched, if enjoyed a bit, was Hardcore Henry.  If you are a fps gamer, you might enjoy.  If you have a mild ability to chuckle at the absurd, can handle a British accent, and aren't going to be too upset by slightly adult themes and images, you might enjoy.  If not just leave it.  I enjoyed it, to a degree.  Very superficial, and for me extremely predictable (yes, I knew the ending right as he fell off the (first) bridge).  I just knew.  Of course, I do believe they are playing with monsters, and will live to know who is the real monster and why that wasn't a good idea.  Do not make a super soldier and expect to contain it, of any sort.  Too late, but, yeah.  They are even going into... territory beyond flesh.  They really are.  Plus mixing and matching, as they are said to have done in the old days.  God did say He wouldn't flood the world, He did NOT say He wouldn't do an near extinction event again.  And those things are notoriously difficult to control or kill.  Oh yeah.  *wink*

Well... on to a show.  Might be a good time to get some soup thawing, and check other food sources.  Hmm, could begin boiling eggs, that would be a good add.  And, enough of them, and cooking for a while would be eased.  I'm... working on things.  Balance, kung fu, feng shui, juggling, and else... if in my own ways.  Not bad for a dead guy.  Later.