To bed late, again.

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I just couldn't get to sleep.  Yea, things weigh on my mind.  It was near sunup when I was finally able to sleep.  I wasn't able to, as a final task, roll... find the alarm clock... and check the time.  I just couldn't do one more thing.  Sleep was good.  Still, things on my mind.  Big changes.  So be it.  I was just waiting for more evidence.  I guess you never know when or how that will appear.

It sure seems darker outside.  Clouds?  Smog?  Vapor?  Some mix?  It isn't cloudy, directly, or didn't seem so upon my initial inspections or in the parts of the sky I could see.  But it definitely isn't as clear as it might initially seem.  Though, isn't later summer often like that?  I... always thought so... or potentially... as summer comes to a close.  That was Iowa, but... it may be mildly universal?

I left the ducks in, yesterday, again.  But this time I didn't feed them.  I like doing that once a month, just to... help them.  Sounds strange, but fasting works for me.  I do it, probably, close to weekly, though definitely monthly, often split those... accidentally or on purpose.  I ask nothing I don't give.  They were quite happy to get out, and especially to eat.

I reset the pool for them, of course set up new food... having to open my last sack of feed to do so.  I brought their water out, emptied and washed those pans, and will set them fresh tonight.  I watched them enjoy their freedom and food as if it was a celebration.  Some mornings they do anyway, some days their morning rituals are more like going to work.  Muted, sober, affairs.

I changed what passwords, keys, and configurations I could last night.  I just hope I can remember them all.  I have a fairly easy system back to resets, if not.  Now that one machine can do all things, and two machines which can do most things, I have a solid means of resetting anything required on one system or another.  I still have some primary passwords to change.  Can't trust those haven't been compromised while "helping" me.

The internet isn't quite so boggy today.  I was having trouble getting to a site, then reloading or transferring to different pages.  Two thirds to a third of my update or transfer requests were being outright declined.  It would attempt to reload, but took a goodly while.  Surfing the interwebs was becoming a huge hassle.  I assume so many were using my internet that I was only given a small portion of it's potential.

If they keep getting back in, I may have to quit the internet for a bit.  I'm not paying for thieves to use my services.  I can easily do without.  I also need to turn this into a linux machine, add a passthrough system to see what ports are open, or some such, and shut everything outside down while tracking everything happening inside.  Until then, I will constantly be changing passwords until it is too much trouble to try to hack or break in.  Oh... and about breaking in?  Yea... that's... coming to a screeching halt too.  I have to set some things up, and reset a few things.  But... yea.

It's only 84° outside, last I looked.  All good.  It was 74° upstairs, because I had the door to the downstairs open for Sam.  It was 72° down here, in the main and front room, until I started in on the machine.  That all around 13:30.  An hour later it is warming up, inside.  I think that may be pretty close to all for outdoors.  Oh, the only thing I really need to hit is cat litter.  With the clumping, scooping every other, or third, day is good... what with three bigger tubs.  Today is the day.

Well, a shower, a meal, and else... but for the animals the scooping is all that remains.  Though I change the girls' water when I shower, so...  Fresh three days in a row.  Later.