Down early, and hard.

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It wasn't too much past that last post, at 19:00... not 17:00(?), when I went down.  Oh, I knew it was 19:00, if I wrote 17:00, but the mind and body... if I made that mistake... weren't fully cooperating at that point.  Not only did I do some things, but that is the longest I  have been awake in... weeks?  It was a double shot of the stuff of life.  Anyway, it was shortly thereafter, an half hour or less, most likely less and a lot less, that I was in bed and sleeping.  I remember my head hitting the pillow, and wondering how long it would...

The next thing I remember, it was 04:52, or :47, or :57.  I had waken to void a few times, but no recall of time.  I doubt if I even bothered looking.  I probably only looked that time because while doing, I got a charlie horse and had to stretch, stand, and walk it out.  Still, not time to wake.  I think I turned the fan off, and went back to bed.  The fan helps to sleep, and stay asleep, but it makes waking much more difficult.

Around 06:00 I started to begin waking, finally getting out of bed at about 06:30, give or take smaller change... ten minutes or less... probably.  Close enough.  I tore my bed down, adding in the clean blankets, while taking a few other blankets down to be washed, and actually already starting those as I wake.  I have one more blanket... bedspread really, to wash.  Then I'll be set for winter.

Today?  First... to wake.  I have a few grumps from yesterday.  Very slight lower back, leg cramps if I am not careful, and a serious weariness of flesh.  Not exhaustion, or tiredness, but literally a bit burned out.  No major problems.  But a few serious ones?  Something.  The hope is to do spots of domestic chores, mixed with spots of working on the cages, and resting when required.

I got the base removed from out in the outbuilding.  Plus wires trimmed where needed, and a few other things.  Plus, everything is back to the garage, where it can be hinges can be insalled.  I would really like to make a top and side and bottom and side hinged, but hinges are in too short of supply, and I need those for the tops.  I'm not absolutely sure they will fit, anyway.  Ugh...  One way or another, I will sort them out.  The goal is to be able to remove the bottom cage so as to scoop poop easier.  The method is immaterial.  Still, engineering on the fly is... questionable, at best.  Yet finding the method of the wheel... which has surely been done and documented before, would take more time than just figure it out.  Ach.

That is the plan.  If I can get an hour or two, just on cages, even four days a week, I may well have it done even this week.  Though, definitely, by the... hmm... she said Saturday the 4th.... either Friday the 4th or Saturday the 5th...  I'll... clarify...  Anyway...  I will be done by then, for sure.  Even if I have to do a few minor or even major rebuilds.

I... do have chisels... if need be, I can score and remove wood for better hinge fitting, if thickness is a problem.  Oh... just... thinking.  I have been wanting to chisel something out... just not on a clock?  Yeah, maybe.  Anyway... later.  I best get to waking.  Then a shower and breakfast.  Then digesting that.  Then on to work, by... sometime before... or after, thank you Loretta... lunch.  :p  Later.