Up, chores done, and study started.

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I was up late.  I can't be sure when I went to bed, but I am pretty sure it was 23:36.  I set the alarm for 06:00, but didn't even hear it.  I must have turned it off in my sleep.  I did wake at 07:05, or so, and tore out of bed... but just to shut the cave down.  That is all the 06:00 alarm had been about.  It was already... or really still... pretty warm.  But it can get worse.

It only seems to have dropped to 65 or so, last night.  So indoors was 75 and 80, if I read right?  Or 70 and 75... memory on that part sucks.  Just that I thought it way too warm for that early.  At about 11:15 it was 86 out there.  It is partly cloudy, and humid (for here) again, at about 38%.  What amazes me is how humid some deserts get.  Arizona gets as humid as Iowa!  Some parts, right in the desert.  Insane.  For us, this is about as humid as it gets, save during very wet springs where I have seen it 55%, if usually for a less than a day, though sometimes for a day or three.  Not solid?  I don't think.  Anyway, this humidity really adds to the heat.

Anyway.  After shutting things down, I did study.  First on the slide rule.  I am improving.  If some things still don't make perfect sense.  The book is clear as mud, and the videos... in them... they often go a bit fast, and aren't clear which line they are using.  I need to get the slide rule down here, and watch closely.  Listening and following, slowly as needed, step by step.  Still, as mentioned, improving.

Something I didn't realize is, these tools were not cheap in their day.  A ten inch sized unit, like the one I have, or similar, cost the equivalent of $1,200 the year the first hand held scientific computer came out (calculator), which cost $3,600 (equivalent to today).  So... yeah.  Calculators not only buckled their own value, they destroyed slide rule value.  I'm telling you though, better relearn the slide rule.  Abacus learning wouldn't be bad either.  There are others.  I wonder how many fine, if somewhat limited tools have been lost to time?  Some remain, to a degree.  It might surprise you that some are still used in various parts of the world.

Then to chores.  I need to get grains and pellets for critters.  They sure eat a lot.  And, now as ducklings are getting bigger, they truly eat a lot of food.  Rabbit kits, when they get to the feeder size, will really be gulping it down.  Probably eating two to three times what their parents eat, per critter.  It's just how growing animals do.

I'll definitely have decisions to make, and quickly.  I may only breed a few of the bigger rabbits a year, mostly centering on the smaller rabbits.  Though, we will see.  Perhaps I am panicking over nothing.  Even so, the adult rabbits go through a goodly lot of feed as is.  I need more of each kind, today if possible.  Four of each lasts about two months, though the birds might be eating more, and faster, now.  The younglings all but bath in food!

As for today?  Another shower, and a shave, when I can.  Laundry, and dishes after.  I still haven't started dishes from some time ago, so I haven't, mostly, been cooking.  Reheating the soup, and sandwiches.  Well, and now, again, kefir.  That and water.  Some shopping would be good, too.  More fresh veggies for soup.  Those veggies get old fast!

Ugh...  Though, after my rest from what has been done, I think I'll study just a bit longer.  Japanese.  I am on the exceptional characters.  But these should be easier, as they are just other characters with a small addition of one sort or another.  I worked through half of the first section of them earlier.  A third?  Something like that.  But they are pushing these a lot faster, I suppose because of what I wrote.  Not sure I can do a full lesson in a day, as it is as doing two or three regular lessons in a day... pushing it, even if similar.

Later.