Oh, well, I have been awake since...

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Since 04:00?  Maybe as late at 05:30?  Perhaps 06:45?  Sometime in there.  I wished to sleep longer.  I went down sometime between midnight and thirty after.  Couldn't sleep longer.  A bit tired and sore.  Haven't gotten to anything yet.  Have some things set up.  Waterers to be filled, if I need another bucket of water.  Cat water needs refreshed.  The chair is in there, to be cleaned.  Luggage is upstairs.

Well, and while doing chores, I did removed the bunny hatchery.  I'll refresh it, with fresh wood chips, and put it in when I see her starting to pull fur.  I emptied it, nothing but hay.  So she hasn't even been getting into it.  Though I did notice she munched on the hay.  Strange girl.

The critters all seemed in good health.  Some more thirsty or hungry than the others.  But all seeming to do well.  Even the smallest of the chicks are starting to be rather large, roly-poly as well, to be sure.  They truly remind me of some of the dinosaurs, at least as portrayed in various documentaries and fiction bits.  Considering the relish with which these eat mice, I have no doubt, with more size, I would be on their menu.  Still, they are quite a joy to watch.  Something about... the herd.  I almost wish I could join, even the one of the human sort.  It is not my way.

I am a herd of one, for what good it does me.  I... almost would change that.  But, there are no others like me.  Alone.  Singular.  Not... a blessing.  But, I think, it will make my tasks easier.  Though, even that has not been a complete grant.  He asked for more, and I relented.  At the cost of the pain of my soul, or what passes for it.  A hard thing, I suppose, to be done rightly, must hurt?  I remember when my mother would say, while paddling me, that this hurt her more than it hurt me.  At once, I did not believe.  Now, as much as I know she loves me, I know she was telling the truth.  So it is with even those who must be denied mercy.  Amen.

Well?  It's up to 77 out there, which isn't really all that warm, at this point.  Partly cloudy, hazy, a mix?  Darker.  It will, probably, warm.  I hope to do some things today.  As well, to go along tonight.  So strange that so little wears me so.  But it is good to be worn.  It is good to be tired.  I just wish it cost more to exhaust me.  Though, given my conditions, I am lucky to be able to get anything for exhaustion.

I'll... keep at it.  If all I can do is game, and ride, then that is what I will do.  If I can do more, I will.  Gladly.  I am trying to... figure out a way to more.  Every day, like a fox trying to escape the hounds and houndsmen of sloth.  While it appears as laziness, it is merely proximity to death.  So close, and yet so far!  Until, humility of the dying, for as much or little as that affords me.  So the game goes.

Good morning, day, afternoon for some of you.  Be well, work hard, don't die, or make sure you are with God should you fall.  Amen.

*wink*