Yes, well, awake, finally.

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I slept hard, and well, when I could sleep.  It was after 03:30, but how much later I am not sure.  Possibly right then, maybe as late as 05:30.  My... memory... went black after that time.  Seeing that time was the last memory, and not much of a memory for an hour before it.  I was already shutting down.  Still, it... was as good as I could do.  I don't have much ability to navigate currently.  See what I did there? 

I pulled one nostril plug... or it fell out... sometime between when I went to bed and before 09:30.  More like 05:30?  The lesser bleeder.  When I realized it was gone, either way, it was dry so I didn't have to bother more with it.  The second one... I woke at 09:30 and pulled that one.  I had everything set up for a major bleed and splatter if necessary.  It, two, was dry.  So... all good, for now, with the nose bleeds.

I feel like hell though.  I want to take aspirin, but that just isn't going to happen.  As bad as the nose bleed was, I won't tempt even thinner blood, thinning blood on top of whatever else was wrong.  So I will just have to suffer.  I hadn't planned on working much today, though, anyway.  So suffering is... sufficient.  The hands, of all things, are finally feeling better.  Oh, a bit rough, swollen, with some joint pain.  But what I would expect from holding heavier tools, shifting larger beams, and shoveling shit for an hour or two... at my age.  But they aren't back to numb swollen balls of nothing, or the next step of pure agony as adrenalin and else wears off.

Trash, today.  Recycling?  And dishes.  Well, and a shower first.  I think I can.  Tomorrow is when I will start back in on the cages.  I believe I am going to cut the heights to two feet... interior heights.  That should still allow a second story.  It will also give me just a bit more breathing room on the wood stocks.  Yea, truth is, I am quite worried about having enough wood to actually finish two cages.  Even with this, and using some of the found wood.  It is going to be very tight.  Very tight.

The second story won't be going in immediately.  I will be arranging, with smaller otherwise useless remnants, to put in brackets, attached to the caging, upon with plywood may be placed.  And, if there are remnants of that for partials, I will add some.  But I don't think there will be enough for all of the levels in even two cages.  Though, the smaller cages will not receive two levels.  A couple of batch pads.  Less to clean, am I right, fellas?

First to wake.  I'll feed the girls shortly... oh, and let the ducks out.  Actually?  Negative on the ducks.  It's dark out, cloudy, overcast.  And with the troubles of late...  The muscovys can get out, and probably back in, without use of the door.  Not much I can do about that.  I can put fresh water in, though.  And fill their feed.  But... that's that, otherwise.  I'm leaving them in, on cloudy days, from now on.  And... probably on weekends too.  Later.