Late to bed, late to wake.

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Only, recently, I am sleeping more like eleven to thirteen hours.  Just... the cold, the dark, the damp.  It's just getting to me.  All good, I'll struggle against it.  Failing that, I'll snuggle in.  I'll keep trying, to do what is right, good, clean, proper.  But, failing that, I'll do as best as possible.  So it is, finding myself awake at 13:30.  I don't even think bedtime was all that late?  23:00, 23:30?  So very tired.

I did wake, a few times.  I think at 08:30?  With some reasonable notion of getting up.  Then, here I am... in time more than place.  Oh, and I couldn't ever be sure when, or where, I was, when waking.  I don't think I was ever in Egypt, but I certainly remembered being there.  Though in times which were... different.

The old world was... pretty much the same.  Dry, dusty, in the old world.  Travel was long and dangerous... even for the rich and powerful.  Keeping an army bound, and close, was almost as dangerous as not having one.  Such... strange... thoughts, dreams, remembrances.  Oh, and if women think it sucks now, they have now idea of how it used to be.  Princess or queen, wife to the nobility, royalty, or merely wealthy... could be abused horribly, then when finished, sold into slavery.  Angry about a guy holding the door?  Or not holding the door?  You... have no clue.  If I think it's coming back around.  One thing to know?  If they truly cut energy, make it too expensive?  Slavery, hard, public, owned, slavery will return.  Those are the only two options... free and easy energy sources, or slavery.  Rome didn't do slavery because it was fun... it is a damned dangerous pursuit.  They did it because they had no option.  Funny though, it's dems and their types who want a return to slavery, they just don't put it in so many words.  But destroying cheap and easy energy is the way back to slavery.  I knew they never changed their ways.

Blood sugar is high, 161 fasting.  Well, and general high carb days, two or three in a row.  Ugh.  I think it was the storebought kefir.  A right, homemade, kefir, has carbs in the 1 to 4 carb range.  I'll bet that storebought is truly much higher.  They don't let it ripen, and then add stoppers to make sure it doesn't.  My bad.  I did start real kefir last night.  But from very old stock.  Not sure it will work.  Will, probably, run it through two or three times in an attempt to clarify.  If that doesn't work, I'll reorder starter.  Actually, I may reorder any way.  Compare, contrast.

My fear of using old stock, even if it partially revivifies, is that it won't have everything it originally had.  When I get it started, I want to keep it going from now on.  Had a good long run with it, though.  I really did.  I am just hoping it really does show as low carb.  Blood sugar will show it.  As would ketosis.  I wonder if I still have the keto pee sticks.  Though, if deeper into keto, it stops being a good tester, as kentones become taken up by the body, being used, so they don't show up in the pee.  Or... so it is suggested.  Still, I'd like to take a look.

Another shower, then maybe... something something?  Oh, chores.  Best get to those immediately.  Cats have been fed.  Will do their litter before long.  It really does last, pretty much indefinitely, as long as you take the bad bits out quickly.  Thrice a day, usually.  Sometimes twice, but at least as often I clear four times a day.  The only losses are due to clumping and poo stickerage.

Dreamed a cat died, last night.  He was a) a he, and b) looked nothing like Sam, but I knew I was dreaming of Sam dying.  And I cried and cried, even into waking flesh.  Who says you have to be gone to be missed!  Oh, on to a breakfast.  Chia, regular.  I know, I would have thought I would bore of it.  But, no.  I need to get back to eggs.  I have some, need to see if they are still good.  Would be super with bacon.  And, I have bread, I can toast, that is low enough carbs, and mostly fiber... as if that really matters, at least for me.  But, low enough total carbs, which seems required for me as net doesn't work.  A piece of that, twice a week, is fine.

I need to do shopping, but don't have money until payday.  Just a few meats, salad, deli meat, cream cheese, and... not too much.  On to my day.