Just right.

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Maybe a bit shy on sleep.  That is better than too much, more so in that I seem a bit more rested.  It will take several days like that to get fully back up to speed.  I really did need the ac still.  It's keeps it 62 in there, plus with the fan, adds air movement.  In just a nap, when the house temps remain stable, I can raise the temp in the room by much as five degrees, a nap being two hours or so.  Perhaps that is normal in a 110 square foot room... give or take?  I can't tell over the long run, because the house temps don't remain stable.  I had thought, by this time, as things cool, I could begin going without ac.  And, sometimes I can.  Just not when I am running this weird sort of fever I get from time to time?

Again, today, I am hoping to get work done.  I have the same things today that I had yesterday, plus a few more dishes.  Dishes, a shower, a meal window, then boxes?  That is the goal.  If I can still do minor work, I may continue doing little sorting tasks in the living room while watching the drama of Barnabus et. al.  Laundry and more of the kitchen tomorrow.  The kitchen is holding, fairly well, so far.  If I get the boxes out, put appliances on the roll cart, and then set up the large shelf and arrange that when it arrives, I will have Mise en Place.  It is far easier to maintain neatness and clarity from such a position.  Then to spread that to the rest of the cave.  What does that take?  If you have a large number of products, objects, tools, and all, you need places.  For everything there must be a place.  I had been... reluctant to purchase, which meant I had to shuffle spaces, or put items in spots that simply weren't intended to facilitate usage, crippling my applications.

It isn't just places to fit things.  I am also considering how I do things.  Processes.  For example, rather than a draining rack, which doesn't really fit anywhere when it is done, so takes up counter space, offering very weak usage, I am considering a grate, or two, for over the sink.  Just roll it when done and set it aside.  Though, really, I need to work under the sink, and in the kitchen, then have a plumber in to set the under-sink plumbing to rights and check a few other things.  Teach, I will ask.  I simply need the kitchen to be in order before requesting assistance.  Oh, and a faucet he will guarantee and work to make sure it works year over year.  If he won't guarantee it for at least three years, I can't afford him.  I'd like him to investigate a few other issues.  Though I think the drains are all related.  I have been keeping them clear, mostly.  But either I am doing something wrong or something needs adjusted to them, perhaps a bit of both.  And, just maybe, he can fit the tub drain with something, like a double strain trap, that can more surely catch debris and be cleaned out right there.  Dunno, hopeful, and as usual doubtful.

Why three faucets have failed I can't say.  I have one on a sink in the back room that has worked fine since I moved in.  It's just not the easiest location in which to do dishes.  It's also not really heated, making it a bit chill to be working there in the winter.  The tub and bathroom faucets, likewise, are not a problem.  The kitchen faucet though?  I wonder if it somehow comes off or out of something that is prone to producing sediment issues.  I simply don't understand.  Like I said, a guarantee that he will tend and or replace the thing for up to three years.  No more faucets with special or finicky systems, no replacement cartridges, nothing.  Just a faucet.  Maybe with a pull handle though, or very high head for cleaning pots.  Hmm, and have him figure out the water softener.  Bleh.  Bit by bit, but I have to get the kitchen in shape, than watch pennies until I can spring for a plumbing assault on various domestic problems.

First?  I have to wake up.  I do believe I will have, for the first in a long time, typical drip coffee.  I had been using an Italian stovetop espresso machine.  And while it is okay, I don't think it is anything really like a true espresso.  I tried various grinds, and found that, for my money, course ground was far superior (as with the french press).  I don't care what others believe.  I like what I like, I buy what I have, and I'll use it as I prefer.  What I find is that many "aficionados" just follow explicit instructions from the first snob they think knows it all, or knows better than them, and stop thinking.  I try very hard to figure my own life and tastes out, even taking recipes I like, stripping them, reducing them, rebuilding them, mixing them, and coming up with what fits my nutritional and taste needs and wants.  And I recommend the same for you.  Still, this time, just drip.  Plus, it's the best way to use the fine ground coffee, as I have found it works better in drip... again, to my tastes.  It's not an opinion thing.  My tastes may be finicky, but not THAT finicky.  Once I nail something, after enough sampling, it pretty much stays.  Objective to my tastes, which are rather stringent and static, if allowing for some exploration.

Oh, today?  Eggs, bacon, and...  I dunno.  Perhaps an alt-flour flatbread?  I'd sure like something.  And I have eggs, almond and coconut flour, and a few other things.  Enough to make something simple, like...

Or using this bread recipe, minus flax, apple cider vinegar, and changing sea to regular salt.  I don't think I am up to any of it today, but it is, in the long run, in the plans.  I may boil eggs, however, so as to have easy food on hand, again.  I keep forgetting about those.  If... what about boring do you not understand?  Too much of anything is just too much.

I think I am back, pretty much, on intermittent fasting.  Weakly, as with keto.  Next Monday I hope to gear back up to three day fasting.  Yeah, it's taking time.  When concentration is lost, it is difficult for even this.  While I can, or have starved, that is a very strange event that is deeper down than this.  It is easier, if there is food, to eat than not, if mental focus begins to falter.  Starvation occurs when there is no focus, or means of shopping or cleaning in order to make food.  I am far from there.

Later.