A nap, as it turns.

.

.

Very good.  I was hoping to wake.  Even if just to dawdle the rest of the day.  Though, perhaps, a bit of picking in the rocky soil, a review of the Japanese lessons I have had so far, perhaps some work on flash cards... or prep for that, a shower and maybe a shave, dishes set up, and laundry?  Well, yes, no.  Some of those things.  I will only be awake a few more hours.  I don't move that fast.

I am not sure I will wake enough to do anything.  BUT!  I kept it to a nap.  Small restraint.  I don't always have it in me to do so.  And, yes, I had to push to wake.  The timing was perfect too, right at two hours, which for me is what a nap is.  Trying to do less is asking for headaches and failure, and stumbling into other failures.  Longer, and it is best I just stay down for the night... if possible.  I live at the edge of extinction, both of flesh and will.  I had set the alarm for 21:00, but more as a psychological ploy.  I was pretty sure if I slept to then, I probably wouldn't wake.  It just isn't cool enough up there.

The temp is rather warm.  Outside, storm clouds have gathered, but it is staying 82!  It is dark out there, but that doesn't change anything.  Actually, the clouds, since they are unproductive, simply heat the place, even raising the humidity... or at least hold in the heat.  Bleh.  Though, I suppose the outside is cooler than this room, and this room is somewhat shut off from the rest of the house, so I might as well open the front door.

If I can, a shower, dishes, and Japanese.  That is sort of the goal.  I sometimes get lost, sidetracked, but if it ends up being other work, I am good.  If it is just getting lost on this infernal interweb, then not so much.  But... I have already beat some of the odds stacked against me.  As mentioned, while not optimal, I'm okay with whatever ends up being done, or not.

I seem to have lost my phone, unless it was taken again.  I've sent an email, as it might be in the truck or shop even.  No response.  I have looked on the ground outside, everywhere I could remember having been recently.  I checked in places it could have been set.  So far, nothing.  But, to be honest, it might be right in front of me.  I doubt it, but you never know.

Ahha!  The phone showed up.  It was in the work truck.  It must have slipped out.

Visitors, three as it turns out.  A tike and his grandpa, plus the son with the phone.  

Good thing.  The phone is required to do returns, and I have... six, seven?  Tomorrow or Monday, I suppose.  Sprinkling out there, but so very lightly.  It's more a strange feeling, a dot of cold somewhere, a few more, but no more.  If it would rain, I might well stand out in it.  But... it... I am surprised we are even getting this.

Ah, and volunteering is going forward.  A spot of cleaning, but in the evening.  It is simply too warm in the day for me to work.  I suppose very early, maybe.  But not after, say, 08:00.  When that sun breaches the mountains, and begins shining brutally, I'm pretty much done, inside or out, for any real work.

Anyway... I'll... get some things done, shortly.  When I finish waking.