I made it just a bit longer into the day.

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It was noon twenty when I finally crawled off to bed.  It wasn't sheer willpower, it was absolute procrastination.  I... just... forgot I was going to bed.  So, I didn't... until I did.

It is about 73 outdoors.  Given that it is a quarter to eight p.m., twenty hundred elsewise, that is a fairly nice temp.  Humidity upstairs is 42%, down here it is 50%.  It is 79, here, near the computer,  It is 77~78 everywhere else.  It must have gotten somewhat warm out there?  Don't know.

I have the house opened, am watering the ducks, and contemplating what else can be done.  A shower would be good, very good.  I purchased deet repellent, which does a great job but is a greasy product.  Gotta shower every other day, even then becoming a bit of a greaseball.  Doing my best.  This stuff works well enough that I ordered another one.  I'll keep a spare or two on hand.  Though I think they really fail quickly, become inert, or worse?  Keeping them in a dry cool place might help?

Ah, okay.  A quick lookup and... deet lasts three years, unless otherwise labeled.  I can get two, for backup, then buy another as one gets used.  Though, putting a date purchased tag on it will help.  Who knows how long these have been in storage already, so maybe just keep them for two years?  Then again, I will probably go through one of these bottles, maybe breaking into a second one, in a long spring, summer, fall period.  So, I doubt if I will have to worry.  Only, if they are forgotten, and sit there for too long... yeah.

Oh, I read that 30% deet does as good as 100%.  According to their testing.  I don't... trust their testing, but may try my own testing.  Is deet bad for you?  So far, no serious implications have been leveled or sorted.  But I don't trust scientists at this point.  You have the doomslingers and those who suggest bathing in secondary nuclear cooling water is fine, good for the teeth too.  Can't believe either of them.  Both some sort of shills, both as likely to kill you as not.  Use your own best judgments, and mine suggests the least possible for functional effectiveness, as needed, is best.  Amen.  So... I'll try 30%, if I don't like that, I'll try 50%, then 70%.  If ~100% is required, so be it.

What surprises me is?  If covid was really so dangerous, you would think they would be truly cracking down on mosquitoes.  More than they already were.  I... don't see that.  Hell, they aren't even testing mosquitoes as a possible vector.  The whole thing is a fraud.  They still check mosquitoes for the West Nile virus, and some others, but not this?  The world-ending pandemic?  Cheers.

Ah, one last thing.  I think I saw what killed the chick.  A huge tom cat.  Yea.  I... almost suspected before.  When I was finding beheaded songbirds?  I almost wondered if a tom got to them, but was chased off by the ducks?  They would do that.  I am almost sure, because it was daylight when the duckling was killed.  It wouldn't have been a skunk or raccoon, most probably not.

On to... something else.  Looking around, taking mental notes, trying to wake.  Good day, evening, and night for those going on to bed.