Cooler.

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Better cooling, so far.  Still not exactly cool.  Probably about as good as it will get.  It is in the mid 70's in this the front room.  Lower 70's everywhere else.  Fans going, cooler outside... 64 if I just read right, and with a strong breeze to wind from time to time.  Something moving, in the air.  Dust, or... something.  Rather odd.  Ash?  Who knows.

Something about kefir, is that while it is variable, there comes a point where a particular glass jar becomes too potent.  I can drink straight, hard, kefir, almost to the undrinkable stage.  But there really is a point when it becomes far too sour, or strong, or... something.  I had two jars, which hadn't been cleaned in... a month?  Three?  Yeah.  The rest are rather fresh.  I hated wasting, but there is nothing else I can do with it.

I don't strain the kefir.  I just let it grow.  Drink the jar, and eat some of the grains, down to about a sixth to a quarter from empty, then fill it to the three quarters mark with milk, and then let the ferment until it is done.  THEN, put fill it to top it off with more milk, and give it about two days in the refrigerator as it cycles through the other jars to it's turn to be consumed again.

The process continues on through.  I had, I think, six jars in the rotation, until these two were pulled, dumped, and will be cleaned and restarted soon.  To get more kefir grains, I don't save the old, bitter.  I just don't drink the next jar or two down as far as usual, and pull some of that out.  It seems to work well.  But, no, the old kefir just... once it reaches a certain point, I haven't found a way to make it sweet again.  Perhaps washing it... rinsing it... in water, then setting it fresh milk on the counter, then doing that a few times?  I just haven't had luck, and this other way works perfectly well.

I need to eat.  So, I best get to cooking!  I am hoping to cook and eat quickly, then get on to bed earlier.  I have the upstairs open too, and one fan going there.  Might get another fan for up there.  It is a bit warm, for being shut today, but the cool seems to be entering much quicker up there than even down here.

And, yes, I did go out and check on the critters.  Oddly, they are a lot less jumpy... no pun intended... in the dark than in the day.  Odd creatures.  Or, maybe, they are just getting used to me.  The mouse is still in the house, in the tub.  Not happy about it, not one bit.  I need to get one or two of those set up outside.  Though with water in them.  I found another mouse in the food.  Seeing signs.  Yes, I... want to get rid of mice.  The trap downstairs catches a new... or old... one every few weeks.  I try to remember to go down and check, often.  So far, no dead mice found.

Anyway... food and more cooling, gaming.  It's about all I can do.

One last thing.  I did start, finally, the new medicine.  A different type of heart medicine.  Oh, I was in trepidation, boys and girls.  I have had the worst experience with medication.  I have tried everything they could think, or much of it, for years.  Even what I am on is crushing me.  But... it works.  So, it was with great fear that I started.

One day tells me nothing.  But, nothing too terribly bad had happened, yet.  I may be of little faith, but even Christ showed rather than argued.  And, whether it was the medicine, or the heat of late, is too soon to tell, but an half hour to hour after taking the medicine, blood pressure had come down to 144/97, if pulse is 91.  But, that may or may not be what is doing anything.  And that pulse is simply ugly.

Later, or good night.