Down late up early.

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I am trying to fight rolling my day back into night, at least as fast as it is happening.  It took a long time to get around to staying awake until 17:00.  Then I had it to that, and stably, for about a week.  Now the body is not being able to sleep until 23:00(ish).  I'm not sure if it is extra sun or what.  I'll be attempting to do a few tricks in order to sleep earlier.  With the weather being cool for the next week, perhaps even snow coming, along with a hard frost, perhaps I can keep to days for a bit longer.

I kicked the girls out, and they will stay out for a while.  They have been fighting and fussing and even bothering me lately.  I'm not sure what they are doing.  I have a sore that... I think they are bothering.  I can't swear to it, but I think so.  Perhaps that is how they operated, on themselves and each other.  Perhaps they push these things in order to help heal, or kill off, the wounded in their ranks?  Healing can be an issue as is, so out they go.

Dishes, laundry, the kitchen, and the bedroom...  Some bills to pay...  If I can get outside, and it isn't snowing, I could begin working on the gutters and moving that pile of branches.  I might look for sources regarding...  Gah...  Got distracted, then lost my train of thought.  Oh well.

Oh, but something else?  While I can't afford more than books, for now, regarding electronics, there is another way.  While examining reviews of various books involving electronics, somewhere in there I gathered that there are simulators, perhaps even for smartphones.  Though perhaps only for smartphones?  Anyway, I went looking.  I found two free ones, and a chip pin dataset.  Not that chips are first on my list, and yet... while I learn, it would be good to have something I can do a more in-depth review regarding.  And it was free.  I might still have a manual on chips, if it would be dated from the 90's... perhaps older.  Still, some things never change... until they are replaced.  I might have a few other resources along those lines, though I wouldn't swear to it.

The thing is, with two different circuit simulators, and others out there if these aren't up to snuff... a pay one perhaps... I can at least get an idea of what the labs are about.  Some suggest they don't need breadboards, components, and even soldering setups so long as they have the simulators.  I know, first hand, the folly of that.  Even if you understand a circuit, on paper (or simulation), back and forth, up and down?  Until you have wired it, you really don't know it.  It can get really messy in there.  I would say it is the difference between knowing that the basketball goes in the net and fitting it then, around opponents, beyond gravity, and all else.  So, while the simulator will help me keep up, it will be no substitute.  However, on some projects or labs... if I don't want to spend the money are parts (if that happens to be an issue), or there isn't something new in there other than mechanical practicum, and/or I don't want or need the project for my own use or interest, the simulation would make for a fine skip.

Now I have to figure out how these work.  While I found them before, for some reason my smartphone was refusing to download.  A few days ago, it just ignored my request.  Odd.  So I spent specific time last night.  The downloads kept timing out.  Are the data services overloaded, is something going on locally?  At some point in the day, then on through the night, my g4 dies, then g3 follows, to no data service.  I'll be dumping this before long anyway, so it doesn't really matter, still...  Oh... I wonder if these programs, and ebooks, still work on "dead" smartphones?  I'll find out, if no one knows or says between now and then.

Later.