Definitely a late rise.

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My cycle is slowly shifting again.  It was a bit after 11:00, I think, when I finally woke.  I didn't go to bed until well after 3:00, so it makes sense.  Why the drift?  Dunno.  Just happens.  Not sure it is just illness.  I think anyone, left to their own devices, without demand put on them, would drift in their schedule.  Now, illness makes it so that putting demand on me isn't possible, but there are other things that might do such.

I sometimes question the modern life.  Time requirements are a very strange thing.  They haven't been a part of man's life, to some degree, for most of our history.  There were seasons of work... seeding and harvesting, moving livestock from grazing area to grazing area... and better times for hunting or gathering specific foods.  Though daylight was pretty much the limits.  Even with fire, taking a torch out was to leave people and go into an unknown for little purpose... only ever a risk taken for a reward known, and rarely.

Men didn't even have time pieces until in the hundreds of years ago. And I think those became a curse, binding men to a new sort of slavery.  And with lights to make the night useful, navigable, natural sleep was intruded upon as well.  Dawn to dusk, at the most, should be a mans effort and life.  Sleep outside of those boundaries, unencumbered sleep not subject to all sorts of noises.  Even here, a bit in the boonies, never an hour passes without a vehicle hurtling by at speeds unheard of until last century.  Yeah, even 40 mph is fast, and much noise is created to attain such speed... in historical comparisons.

Progress?  Really?  It might be the reality so that more can be born and live.  Certainly to make that as sustainable as it has been for centuries now.  I think they got to such levels many times.  But without continuous advances in many technologies, forms of government that could be tolerated by the people, and religions that were just or attempted that, all civilizations fell.  Before machines, slavery was required, a system that could never be just and was always one major war for slave acquisition away from collapse.  We are blessed, if all blessings come with the potential for curses.  Poisoning our world, machines still not being able to do enough, and yet people failing for the extra... and Elites who think they no longer need us at all.  Enemies of new sorts all around.

No, not a post offering hopelessness.  Just a comparison of the problems from the past with those we have today.  Never has life been easy.  Never has it been without great toils and tribulations, dangers hidden around every corner.  Elites have always hungered for the lash, power, dominion, and cruelty.  The masses always able to stampede if not outright revolt.  The costs and duties of life, top to bottom and between has always been dear.

Anyway...  I have things to do.  Dishes, laundry, a shower.  Maybe some cleaning.  Who knows what will happen.  I feel rested, mostly, and nearly ready to dig in.  I have been doing small bits and pieces.  I am hoping to do more, and maybe a lot more, sooner or later.  Good day.