A few other updates and ideas.

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While officially taking dedicated time to be solitary, mostly, and attempting to live more simply, I am trying to solve issues, some which haven't arisen yet.  Though I realize without tech, without electricity, running water, and a few other things, life simply won't work well.  But how did they used to do it?

They worked like slaves in sustenance efforts, devoting most of their time to scraping just enough to live, and starved when that wasn't possible.  Cannibalism was a later resolve.  And dying like flies was very common.  So far, in this event, so good.  But, here or there, three to ten days without food and you will see what I suggested about the FBI agent who tried to save the lamb.  Ripped to pieces.

Me?  I have gone weeks, even months, without food.  If often, then, I slept through it, at least the longer runs.  I do know that after a week or two the actual hunger goes, at least for me.  But something else, far more terrible, arrives... psychological hunger.  From that a slow approach towards madness.  None are immune, for beyond there be dragons.  Another form of... us.  Even if I am different, having flesh puts us all in the same boat on this and other issues.

Still, barring a complete collapse, there are options.  A few simple games... jacks (pick up) and marbles.  Silly, but fun, simple.  As well, I ordered a lot of popcorn.  No, not to eat while watching the world burn.  I don't have that luxury in any case, nor desire.  It is because popcorn is an easy way to add fats, for keto.  And salt... need more on keto.  As well, I ordered a small grouping of shelfstable fats, several jars of coconut fat and similar amounts of ghee.

Further, I have been using those foods and together.  I need a lot less of those fats than regular butter and they taste quite good.  I was hesitant about the coconut lard.  But it is quite good.  I went with raw, so yes it tastes of coconut.  But on the popcorn, with salt, that is lost in the background.  A few times a week, a big bowl of that serves as a meal.  Actually, no insulin spike, or nothing like what I feared.

I have had one failure... cheese powder.  It... isn't terrible.  It just isn't worth adding.  I have tried it in popcorn and a few other things.  I just don't taste cheese.  It is supposed to be cheddar.  It reminds me of edible yeast additive, but has none of the natural goodness that the yeast (in theory) provides.  Still, I will explore other ways to make it work, at least using it up.  Waste not, want not.

So, while sitting on my (if broken) thumbs, I haven't just quit.  It takes more than I have just to live, but I still attempt to do more than just survive.  I try to thrive.  And, in some ways, I do.  In very small ways, sometimes only by creating possibilities I can't actually realize.  Just knowing the possibilities have physical backing toward their fulfillment is... comforting.  Later.