Out, at least.

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Just going along for a ride, really.  But it was a nice outing.  It got hot, but... it's... hot out there.  So go figure.  Lunch on the town.  A rather rare thing these days.  I was worried about blood sugar, they didn't have leaf for a keto sandwich, so I went with bread.  Blood sugar was 130 when I got home, though I wasn't sure if it was going up or down.  A few hours after returning, and blood sugar is 96.  I won't mess with it either way.

I was getting a heat headache.  Aspirin, for the first time in... well... a month?  I stayed up, really, to try to get that to ease before trying to nap.  I was too grumpy of body, not mood, to attempt sleep with a headache.  It has eased.  It should be nicely cool up there.  I am so ready for a bit of sleep.  I haven't been sleeping but, say, four to five hours a night for a week or three?  It's the sun, and heat.  Tolerance doesn't mean it has no affect.

I have everything for the clothes line, save one extra hole dug.  Still, tomorrow, I may get the ducks' hutch cleaned and refreshed.  New hay.  They are doing well enough out there.  I would like to begin assessing my wood stocks for a tractor/hutch for the muscovys.  Large enough for several more hens, with nesting boxes.  I ought to check how many are really needed, what is optimal.  I'd like to end up with six to eight hens, and two drakes, of that sort.

Perhaps, next year, four more hens and another drake, of the indian runner sort.  And, very possibly, two or three turkeys.  Who knows, I may eventually actually get to goats and try my hand at meat chickens, or a mix of meat/egg chickens.  And a dog.  Heck... maybe a wife!  Next thing you know, I'll be healthy enough to have to live another fifty and change.

Ah, and I did get the contact information for the woman who sold the ducks and rabbits.  I'll reconnect, just to have a conversation back in the cue.  And to let her know it'll be next month, when I get the rabbits.  I am sure hoping for the stimulus.  Yea, I know.  I also know they are bailing billionaires out.  There isn't a way to spend, save, or pay off debt out of this.  Event horizon is the only solution left.

Why won't it be like the Wiemar Republic?  Because it is the whole world.  Like it or not, as bad as America is financially, economically, and well before the "pandemic", the rest of the world is worse.  And some countries are still hiding the true death tolls and such.  And they certainly aren't back up to near full, or even half, production.  First they force everyone out of work, to near starvation.  Then they try to force them to work in crowded conditions... a population seemingly much more susceptible to the disease, if crowding and lack of hygiene from excess work load and other factors, and ignorance lead to some of that.  Work a slave half to death, in cramped crowded harsh conditions, even a simple flu will take them down in groves.

Anyway.  No.  When the markets fall, America will, again, be poised to spring back.  Some places will be absolutely devastated, especially with all the food disruptions beyond China virus.  Locusts in Africa and Asia, droughts there, floods there... including China.  This won't be nice.  The drowning can't save the drowning.  I do wonder if governments will finally crack down on the thieves of the real economy, and hang them publicly and in such numbers that it won't be done again in the lifetime of childrens' great grand children.  Then again, a lot of current politicians would have to hang right beside them.  We'll see.  It would be a start.  That and a global economic jubilee... release every debt... if make taking new loans all but impossible, and fee not interest based.  And... put back on a jubilee system.  

Well, ya'll have a good day.  And maybe night.  I'm going down like a felled tree.  Ka-Boom!  Later or much later.