A bit cranky.

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Just of body.  I slept well, but I don't think I moved enough.  Sleeping is somewhere between an art, a trick, and a science.  The pillow, or head rest, has to be just right.  The temperature needs to be stable.  I need to move some, but not too much.  I have gotten used to waking frequently, but it would be better not to wake.  Then again, I have always waken through the night, even when I didn't get out of bed.  Periods where I was mostly awake.  Sounds from quite some distance can sometimes wake me, the cats, local domestic animals, wild animals and birds... a barn owl I think, from time to time, and perhaps a hawk of some sort.  Sometimes their calls, sometimes just their movements.  If anything is off, or if I sleep too much or too little, my body can be cranky.

Hmm, I think it was too little movement, perhaps too deep of a sleep, and... maybe my pillow being a bit off?  It is strange to think of how many things have to be just right, that we, or just me?, needs to attend while I am also supposed to be sleeping.  Some think it is all natural.  I suspect, for the healthy, it might be... or it might be closer to that.  But for folk such as myself, we don't have the natural overhead of energy reserves.  If we burn off what we have, we end up sort of on our own or s.o.l. and just having to suffer or fuss enough consciously to get it right.  No worries, just an understanding.

Ah, the fellas, after while clearing other driveways, hit mine a second time and... it really helped.  I couldn't go back over it.  I was finished when I was done.  But that slushy underlayer was annoying.  I noted, sometime, that they had hit it again.  Fantastic.  I may still get some salt out there and on things again.  Especially with the main of the slush and slush material gone.  It ended up being sunny, at least for the part of the morning I was awake to see.  That and salt, and maybe a bit of more warmth, and she'll stay in tipper shape.

I realize that while I can do some work in the cool, or in the home with access to cool, fans, and such, I will always have to struggle greatly with work in higher temps.  That is simply outside of my parameters, almost ever.  If I do it, from time to time, it generally takes me down hard.  Too hard to keep going.  Spring is okay, fall and winter are good usually, but summer is out.  I may see about some things next summer.

Oh, the second from the last sudoku, I did get to 5 seconds again.  It's been a while.  I hadn't been playing as regularly, what with how much work I have been doing since fall, and maybe a bit of the last of summer?  I am trying to do it more regularly, again.  At least while I am resting.  I still want to hit 3 seconds.  It is only slightly more impossible than 5 seconds and will give me a grin from ear to ear.  I think I can, possible, too.

I am working on increasing my gab following, just for kicks.  I am up to... nearly 4k.  I'd like to hit 20k.  Yeah, I may be going away, it's not really my thing.  But there is no reason not to go away from something will on top.  As I suggested, I'd like to stick with it through Trump's first 100 days, which won't start for nearly a month.  I'd like to get better news sources, and news checks, than what I can get elsewhere.  Plus, increasing the numbers is... something mindless to do while resting.

Work?  Yes, tonight.  Gathering more dishes, a shower, setting up the dishes, some laundry, and a bit of picking up just to get back to where I was when all this started.  Oh, and perhaps leveling at least the dryer, and maybe beginning that on the range.  I HATE having the stove be slightly off kilter.  If I can't do it myself, or if I get stuck, I may see about help soon.  I'll probably still be taking it, mostly, easy this week too.  Then, if I can get caught up with the house, and take care of the appliances while maintaining snow removal, I'll take the weekend down hard, then start tearing into my main bedroom next week.  I really think I can kick that out in a week, max... save for maybe steam vacuuming that cold room and the carpet drying...  Well, I suppose I could use the electric heat in there for a few days.  Still, drying carpets is always what seems to take the longest.

It's a beautiful thing, to have the home coming together... mechanically, functionally, materially, and in cleanliness.  I may make one more shot at the plumbing under the sink... which will require new p-trap parts.  I think that is the problem.  Though I did find another part that is a problem and will be adjusting the bolts, and perhaps seeing what sort of glue might work.  The rubber gasket is leaking, for whatever reason.  Might not be tight enough, and might not even be able to be tightened?  I'll... figure it out.  If my efforts fail, though, if not this month as I have costs accumulating, I may call a plumber next month... for that, the faucet install, and a general round of advice and/or quotes on other work.  Hmm... I'd like to try to change out the washers for the shower and tub handles before he arrives.  That way, if I mess that up, I'll... see if he'll give me a learning for a job.

Later.