Serious pain.

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Pushing that far in I knew the extraction would be uncomfortable.  I am not at all surprised, after resting for days, to just now be hitting my stride in the extraction of pains.  Arms and chest and legs, like after the first week of football practice.  I had worse, I just can't remember those things.  Boot camp was actually worse, but not all physical.  It was the regimen, the hours, with the physical added in as a component and not the heaviest component by far, so there was no real recovery, in that, for me.

I have set up the bed so that it is warm enough, and more.  That should help with recovery.  Until last night, or the night before, I can't recall, I had been sleeping with just a cover sheet and two blankets.  I never was warm at night.  I think that was setting recovery back.  All I added was a heavy top cover-blanket but it worked.  Now I have to add and remove layers through the night, but I do get warm and stay warm.  I believe recovery will be quicker now.  And I should sleep more deeply.

I need to begin cooking again.  I have had this and that to get by eating.  It's getting long in the tooth or is simply gone now.  So, back to it.  I don't know if I said, but I won't be using my cast iron on the stovetop anymore.  I will use it in the oven.  The problem is oil seeps to the outside and bottom of the pan, making it almost impossible to cook cleanly.  Which is fine.  I have several good stainless and 'teflon' type pans for regular use.  To be honest I don't think they are as good as cast iron, much more difficult to cook with, harder to truly keep clean, but they aren't messy to the stove to cook with.  Thing is, if these pans get a scratch in them, you really have to change them out.  That is some seriously bad to eat stuff that scrapes off.  I can test out, more thoroughly, the high carbon pans though.  If they work like cast, as has been suggested, but don't bleed out oil, they might work better.

For right now, mostly, other than cooking as required, I am still down for the count.  Another day or two and I hope I can begin doing more.  I need to make some returns, get the washing machine going, and buy groceries... before everything closes down for Christmas.  Ugh.  I want to go back to bed but I am not sure I can.  A few more hours would get me in line to maybe work back to a regular day schedule.  Oh, and I need to go to the post office, which is doable even if I do nothing else as to getting out.  Later.