Now that's a trick.

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Visitors visited, and helped.  The water heater is down the steps.  There is a sump pump down there, if I'm not yet sure it works.  I've been pushing too hard just to open the path.  Which I did, or... well enough.  As well, I did task them to remove the air conditioner.  I... had been putting it up and taking it down, solo, for years.  But, then, one year, I just didn't have the strength.  So, it sat, in the sill.  Now I can open and close that window for various reasons.

Grateful.  Not much I could offer but thanks.  I did offer what services I may provide.  But what, even, does God want with a dead dog?  Men?  Less so.  Still, the offer stands.  And... I will do what I may.  As any day, or task, or opportunity may be done.  In it's time.  Amen.

Blood sugar is high, but then I have been doing what it takes to do what it takes, today.  Which means poor diet.  Still, the weekly average, if it has gone up, is still 122.  And, I think I will get that back in check very quickly, if a bit cautiously.  However?  BP?  It is 117/68, with a pulse of 79?  That is my first test, after my first full week, for sure, without missing a dose or a time/slot dose even!  After being off it, almost certainly, for two to four days.  I'll take that, and gladly.  Come to think of it, when bp comes into trim, for a bit, no matter what else, blood sugar usually goes up.  It's... just a Doom thing?  Or is that typical for others?  It is standard for me.

Chores were started.  Ducks got fed and watered.  Now to check the rabbits.  Had to take a bit of a break.  I've been working hard at working hard, if to do so very little, these last few days.  I think I broke a ball.  Meh.  I've had worse.  I'll get the rabbit hoppers in just a few.  Need to sit, rest, get air.

Oh, but cuppa.  A cup of tea, that is.  Darjeeling, brewed at 175, for two minutes.  And boy is it good.  No bitters.  Smooth, hints of... many things.  No matter what they say, open your mind when sipping it.  It becomes like looking at clouds.  What you see, or in this case taste, is almost a fiction, but not quite.  Almost a hint of almond, or flowers of some sort.  Even a dalliance of honey, even oak?  Maybe.  There is something nice in there, but identifying it, before it is gone, is... a bit of a trick.  One I enjoy playing, trying.

So very tired.  I may sleep a very long time, when I can finish chores, then settle down, then fall.  So tired, exhausted, but not yet sleepy.  Ugh.

It looks like I wrote the wrong thing somewhere.  Google tried to force me to give them personal data.  Nope.  Then they unlogged me from my accounts, forcing me to sign back in (to one of them, the other autoinitiated?).  China's credit scoring scheme, through the eyes of goog, oppressing Americans, in America.  You better believe it.  Funny thing, they don't monkeys anymore than I do.  Probably less.  What do you think planned parenthood is about?  It's about monkeys, well, and poor, stupid, drug addled women of all stripes.  Anyway, I've really done it!  Ha!  Too bad, so sad.  At least China knows how to deal with them, of all stripes.  And does.  Boo hoo, goog.  Hope the truth hurts.  *wink*

Anyway... so be it.  I've got real things to consider and manage.  Cheers.  And... later, or more likely good night.

More done.

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A grouping of boxes broken down.  A bunch, most, of the boxes brought up from the basement.  Some clearing of the floor.  It wasn't terrible, or such.  Merely lines from when I attempted to do drip lines in the garden.  They had been drained, and put up, rolled by the various sections, and taped with black/electrical tape in rolls.  Then put down there.

Not sure if they have been scattered by thieves, looking for else, if the cats were down goofing.  They had been stacked well and nicely, at one time.  In any case, they have been stored a bit more neatly, again.  Though getting them into better order, in time, would be nice.

Bit by bit, I am doing what is possible.  So slow.  So tired.  So be it.  I'll keep at it, until time is gone.  Little bits of this and that, but... it's what I can do, when I can do it.

It is warming up out there, if not terribly.  It seems to be in the mid 80s?  Just a guess.  I don't feel like actually going to check.  It has warmed to 79, at 41% humidity, in the front room here.  Though it is five to ten degrees cooler in the rest of the house, and cooler in the rest of even this room... a bit anyway.  It's just near the machine where it is so warm.  Though it really doesn't feel all that warm, or hot anyway.

If not mentioned, the electric kettle isn't working out.  Still, if I am quick, or will wait a few minutes until it is ready, I can get various temps of water.  First, earlier, for coffee.  But, too, green tea is on the list, and is being sampled.  Green?  It may, or may not, be.  Darjeeling, of a seeming mixed sort.  It is advertised at both, if I... have my doubts.  But it doesn't have the 'punch in the gut' that most black teas I have tried have.  So, I am guessing, it might be a blend of darjeeling black and green?

Anyway, I am steeping it at various temps.  I first tried it at 195.  Which may or may not work.  My problem was that I meant to give it five minutes to steep, but completely forgot to set the timer.  And, even that might be a bit long and a bit high.  Still, to be quite honest, it tastes rather good, though getting bitter toward the end.  I'd like to try it at, say, 175, for two minutes.  Being exact.  I am not looking for a fistful of bitter-sour-strong, but... the simple, humble, truest flavor I can find.  More than water, a lot less than coffee, some less than most teas.  Bright, flavorful, but mild, green, floral, simple.

I don't want that from everything I drink.  Only from that which natively produces such, with care.  My coffee?  I like a punch on the nose.  Black tea, even oolong, I want... a bit more, if not a coffee... save for some rare black teas which can rival a coffee in their own unique ways.  I want, simply, the best the product I am using can produce.  I will work with it.  So be it.

On to resting, again, before I can start the day going again.  Boxes have to be broken down before I can bring more up.  Those two things are the next goal.  Then checking on the ducks and rabbits.  And, maybe, a last load of wools, if there are enough, and some laundry upstairs... a basket, maybe two... to be sorted, folded, hung, or else.

What may be done, will be done.  Amen.

A difficult day.

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I keep waiting, even pushing for, but failing to find, opportunity.  Coffee... woke me.  A bit.  Blood sugar is doing weird things.  From 171, without food for probably pushing eighteen hours, then with a small dose of insulin and good, it dropped to 77.  I was feeling a crash, so I'm having something to eat, again.  I have eating, if small bites, twice since that high.  Three times now.  Still feeling a crash, may take something extra.

I have checked.  Other than glucose tabs, peppermint hard candies offer the same amount of carbs... five per round.  I am not sure if there is a reason to go with glucose tabs, but I must say, peppermint tabs are a hella lot cheaper.  I may do a quick study.  Though, too, what you find with the MIC (medical) is that they try to get you to buy expensive, and their "studies" are more wrong than right, down to a 5% "good" for their world class studies.  The rest being at best not reproduceable, at worst (the majority) outright fraudulent/wrong, and seemingly obviously and intended, even if they pass peer reviews.  Not... good.

Still, I'll look around, see what is suggested.  Is there a difference between various carbs offered?  Let me go dig...  Okay...  Nothing.  No indication of anything.  One is a heck of a lot more expensive is all.  Yeah... just... yeah.  No.  I had through they were better.  I don't think so.  

Anyway... It was 64, outside, last I checked... two hours ago?  Yep.  And it is 74 now.  Still rather cool for 11:34 in the morning, but I'll take it.  Closed up the last access, while getting a few of those peppermint rounds.  I love hard candy, though if I am using it, it means I didn't do something right.  Either those or $7~$9 per 50 "medical" candies.  Yea, no.  These are $15 per ~500, same carb count, same carbs.  Bleh.

Anyway.  Having trouble doing anything.  Coffee, food, tending blood sugar...  None of it is working.  I'm not crashing, now that I've dosed with carbs.  But I'm not getting going, either.  So frustrating.  Yes, I did get chores done, and cats fed... plus their litter managed.  I moved more laundry to the back room, and plan to get some upstairs... hopefully to be folded, sorted, hung... whichever works best for the piece.

Thing is, I'd like to... do more.  Open the area up.  I'm just too shot for sustained standing, let alone more.  Even light work is just not happening.  So much for digging, or picking then digging, raking, or loading branches.  Very, very, frustrating.  Anyway... I'll keep pushing.  Even if I don't get there, I will keep trying.  Good morning, day, and if I crash... night.

Prayers be with you.  If I fail, the intent is true.  And God is my witness.  He knows.  Amen.

Not fast.

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Last I checked, it was 48 out there!  It wouldn't surprise me if it has cooled even yet.  Either way, that is really cool for an early August night.  Humidity is down to 35%, at least downstairs.  Chill.  It is 75 here, in the front room.  With the front door closed but most windows open.  No fans going.

Very strange.

A shower, finally.  Took a while to wake, rouse, and do.  But... done.  One of my recent purchases was a water boiler... heater.  It may have to go back.  It has a temperature lock, but that doesn't work.  So, as soon as it heats, with a very weak alarm I can not hear, it starts cooling off.  Anyway, I used it to make coffee.  Still, basically, it is broken.

As well, it was supposed to hold the heat, even without the stay warm feature.  It... really... doesn't.  In the mid 70s, in the kitchen, the temp in the kettle drops like a rock.  It is supposed to have double walls and insulation, but it sure doesn't seem to have it.  I have seen one that does have those things.  It doesn't brew as much water, but, as I am drinking tea and coffee rarely and in smaller quantities, that isn't an issue.  Further, it would do a large enough batch anyway, even for, say, four people... for hot cocoa, or tea, coffee, or to do instant soup or such.  I'll go for that one.  On the good side, that other one used to be $125~$150, sometimes on sale down to $85.  Now it is similarly priced to the one I bought.  The only bad thing is that it isn't all steel, as this one, at least near the water.  There are seals, of silicon from what I have heard.  Which also means there is a life limit to the item.  That will break down where stainless never will.  Then again, all these things are made to burn out, break down, or wear out in years, not decades, anymore.  Bleh.

Hmm?  Yeah, I... chatter.  Then again, it's been a while since I have had coffee, or tea for that matter.  It's been too hot.  While it reads 75, it... really isn't.  There is cool air in the 'corners' of the rooms.  Just... it's the way it is in drier climates.  Or the obverse.  The actual temperature read is some... strange... notion of the weather.  It isn't the whole, or even most, of the truth of it.  So, coffee is good.  Hopefully it will warm me enough to get to things.  I think that might have been part of the problem.  So... if it and the shower doesn't work?  Another cup of joe!  Cup?  Quart, that is.  Your cup may vary.  Then again, I can hide most of the quart jar in my hand.  Can you even do that with your cup, or mug?   Right, right... dosage, little ones.

Hmm... A bit more looking, more coffee as needed, perhaps a bite... maybe a cheese and coldcut 'sandwich'?  Maybe.  And a can of sardines?  Something like that.  A nice keto tour de France... or Italy?  Germany?  I think all the old ones do sausages fairly well, coldcuts as such, and sardines or else fairly well.  Or... did in their days.  I'm even older school, but... back then, we ate what was able to be et.  Hungry enough, your bad, or weak, neighbor starts looking... spittable.  :p  God didn't curse my kind for no reason.  Hungry bastards.  Some have never been able to control that hunger.  I feast on it, these days, often enough... and give thanks for the hunger.  When possible.  Amen.

Well... on to waking.  Things are looking up a bit.  Just a taste of warmth, and possibly caffeine.  Odd that tea has more caffeine, but it has less effect?  If tea is usually consumed cold?  No, I drink iced coffee, but... yea, maybe.  It, come to think of it, has a very muted effect, compared to hot.  If still, usually, stronger than tea.  Odd.  Well, and again, to it.  And, later, gator.

Back to bed after that last post.

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I don't even think it was 19:00 when I went back to bed.  Down, hard.  I am just waking, finally, at about 01:30.  That after long sleeps, after long sleeps.  I am having a rough time staying awake, and doing anything.  I do think it is the weather changes.  Cooler.  Not just air, but land.  The world is literally cooler, here anyway.

Ah, but the sleep is fantastic.  If I wasn't trying to get some things done, it would super.  The thing is, it still gets hot enough, at times, I can't work.  I am getting squished between the temp swings and exhaustion.  Though, possibly, work this morning.

It is 52 out there.  And mid to low 70s in here.  A shower this evening.  And, hopefully, finishing up the path down to the basement, and through the basement itself, tonight.  The shower first.  Then chores, trying to hit those morning and night.  As well, perhaps, more digging tomorrow morning?  (Technically later tonight, according to my sleep patterns.)

The girls were fed first thing, and last thing as I went to bed.  I think they got forgotten yesterday.  They were acting so strange, that, yea.  It was more because I was sleeping so much than that I forgot them for long stretches while awake.  I must have slept nearly a day, with just short uptimes in there.  It happens, if exceedingly rarely these days.

Blood sugar was odd.  It was 171, in spite of not having eaten since before my last sleep.  Blood sugar was low, at that time.  Not sure how that works out.  How can blood sugar rise without food intake?  That absolutely makes no sense.  No, just drinking perrier.  That and medicine.  There isn't anything in there.  Is my body cannibalizing itself?  It absolutely doesn't make sense.

Well, a bit of waking.  Then on to something or other.  Good evening, day, night, or morning.

Crashed.

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Sometime after noon, but not quite 13:00?  I think so.  The alarms were set at 17:00 and 19:00, I think.  The early alarm had sounded.  I hit the snooze twice.  Was able to crawl out.  Not terribly awake, sore as well for whatever reason, and just not in great shape.  Awake, not much more.

I think it was around 09:30(?) the last time I ate.  So it is almost a fasting time.  Actually, since it was a nearing 18:00 when I tested, I can call it a fasting period.  So I thought to test.  Blood sugar was 126 fasting.  I haven't eaten, probably won't for a while.  A good number though.

It was a bit warm inside, so I checked outdoors.  It was cooler, by a bit, plus with a breeze..  It is overcast, but doesn't look to be offering rain.  And it smells of smoke.  A more local or more distant fire, that I can't say.  But it has a hellish cast to the sky, rather than anything good, clean, or moisture laden.  It's an ugly color, more a haze than cloud covered.

Not sure what I am about, at the moment.  I can't do much.  Awake, it's as good as it gets.  I am hoping for visitors, but that may not happen.  I have opened things up.  I had hoped to open things even more, but I... have done what I can, for today.  If it is another day, or week, I can do more.

The world is sure looking dark, in a lot of ways.  Not sure what is going to end up happening, but... it'll either go dark, or become full black, as a place and world.  Even some miraculous correction will... get dark first.  It's worse for others, far worse.  Though it can go absolutely harsh here, in a moment.  They are trying to make it so, and no one really seems to care, as long as they get theirs... for as long or short as they can get it.  Later.

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Visitors tomorrow.  All good.  Now I can... crawl back to sleep.  Soooo tired.  Headache from it.  Plus, there is a chance, if I can sleep enough to wake well, that I can clear the areas better before they arrive.  So very tired.  So tired it hurts.  Good night, again.

So tired.

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I can't quite sort things out.  I am trying to get things done.  The effort is going forward at a snail's pace.  I'll keep at it, I hope, at least until certain portions of it are finished.  I am hungry.  What I ate earlier, after several hours, brought my blood sugar up to 106.  I'm not completely happy with that, either.  It's a good number.  It's just that, at that point, a small dip could cause problems.  I'll be looking for any signs of a drop.

Last time I looked, it was still about 64 outside.  Though the wind seemed to have died down.  I best check again, shortly.  If it has started warming up, I need to shut the house down.  Humidity is up to 43%.  Must have been something more than just wind and empty clouds, if not much more.

I may need a nap.  I'll keep the phone near, in case I get a call.  Set it so that unknowns can't get through.  Though some of the more tech savvy spammers and scammers know how to piggyback through when a known caller calls.  I'm sure the phone companies didn't help them figure out how to do that, at all, or anything.  At least most of them can't, yet, do that.  Must be complicated, or require expensive kit.  Nothing the phone companies would happen to profit from, would they?  Nah.

Anyway.  Hmm... I'd really like to fry up some burger, and make a taco salad.  It really does sound good.  Not sure if I have pan available for that though.  Worth a shot, looking around.  I really am hungry.  Looking at the cats, ducks, and rabbits sideways.  They return the favor, if for different reasons.  :p  Later.

Blustering, slightly overcast, and looking to storm.

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In the mid 60s.  It sure looks like it could storm.  And, yet, I think not.  Or, more, a storm without rain.  Cool, but not cold, or so it feels.

A bit more clearing.  It's not a lot of work, it's just deciding where things should go, and how to open things up.  Can't be sure how much room is needed.  Getting to it.

I did look at the sump pump down there.  If it will run, it will do.  I'm just not sure about this or that.  Maybe it will work, maybe it won't.  I have looked around, online, for a replacement if not.  There is a fairly large sump well, at least 15" in diameter.  So finding a pump won't be difficult.

Blood sugar, even after a meal, is right at 86.  So odd.  I had a the last few veggies and a tablespoon or two of keto peanut butter.  I just don't trust when the blood sugar gets that low.  I took morning medicine for today.  In an hour or two, I'll check bp and blood sugar again.  I wouldn't, normally.  But at that low, I worry just a bit.

Chores are done.  The critters seem to be enjoying the cooler weather.  If cool weather stays, I may consider letting the bucks in with the does.  I'll give it a week, or two.  One of the does may be pregnant.  I keep checking her cage for fur buildup.  I won't put a kit trap in there, the first day I see it.  But on the second day.  Otherwise she will turn the thing into a latrine.  Bleh.

Oh, my mother left a message.  Doing better, if I didn't mention.  Saw a doctor.  Looks like a two week stay, as things are going.  Then back home.  All good.  Allows time for planning.  It should be good.  She sounded better.  

Well... a bit of a rest.  Then back to a few things.  Oh, perhaps the wools in as well.  I have just been wearing cotton socks this summer.  But, if it begins to cool off, wools will be back on the feet before long.  And with liners if, as, needed.  Good morning and day.

A start, a slow one.

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I started, eventually, at the starting point.  Opening the way through the room.  As well, if help is here, I am going to see about getting help pulling the old, dead, ac... from that bedroom.  There is a fellow who collects metal.  Though, perhaps, an attempt to get the gas checked?  Perhaps plug it into a different outlet, to see if it is just that outlet having problems?  Whatever.  Both are opened, within the room.

Next I have to make a better path on down to the basement.  The old one should be easy enough to pull.  It can go out a side door.  Though there are boxes and garden hoses in the way, on the ground down there.  So that area will have to be cleared as well.

It is 76 in here, near the computer.  Maybe a little less in the rest of the house.  I think it read 62 outside, though with no air movement, it just doesn't cool the house much.  Humidity has dropped to 37%!  That's the lowest I have seen it in quite some time.  Perhaps that is why it feels so cool.

Blood sugar, two hours after grazing on veggies and peanut butter, plus a dose, blood sugar is down to 87.  I may have brats and sauerkraut, the remnants from yesterday.  That should keep it steady.  So strange how much it drops, sometimes, or rises even without food.  Very strange.

Yes.  A bite to eat.  Perhaps feed the girls, and tend their litter first.  Then wash up and have something to eat.  Chores, sometime this morning.  And, of course, finishing the job.  Perhaps, if I get things tended well enough, before I nap, I can see about the sump pump.  If so... I could turn the water heater off, let it cool, and then drain it this morning or early afternoon?  It's an idea.

Later.

Strange.

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Even with the night cooling, it is 78 near the computer.  Even so, again, I feel chilled.  I have the fan going, but just one.  The doors and windows open.  Air coming in.  But it just isn't cooling all that much.  Even so, as I mentioned, unlike earlier, I am chilled, nearly to the bone.

I wondered if blood sugar was dropping.  It was 157, after about ten to twelve hours of sleep?  And, I haven't eaten since I woke, so, thought perhaps it had gone down.  Nope.  It was 197?  Odd.  So I had veggies and peanut butter, plus water and a dose of fast acting insulin.  Very odd.  Insulin shouldn't go up.  It was around 20:00 when I checked the first time, after the fasting, plus no food since and testing about a quarter after one... so... 10 to 12 plus five hours, of fasting, so fifteen to seventeen hours of fasting?  Why would blood sugar creep up 40 points?  It really doesn't make sense.

I, mostly, grazed... from the time of checking until just a bit ago.  I'll check again in two to four hours.  I have work to do.  After I finish, or when I wear down... if I can keep at it long enough... I will check blood sugar again.  So very strange.  I'll keep at it, in any case.

As to the chill, yes, I am wearing clothing for cooler weather.  Longjonhs, if under shorts, socks, underwear under those, and a tshirt.  I may add a top shirt, long sleeve... a safari type, heavy cotton.  Strange.  Oh, I may set up the last load of laundry.  Wools, a small load.  Then get to opening the way for the water heater.  As well, possibly seeing if the old sumppump in the basement works.  Come to think of it, I think it did work last time.  It's not pretty.  And it has been six or eight years.  But... maybe.  If so, I may drain and pump the water from down there.

Later.

Back to bed.

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I could not keep my eyes open.  Being as warm as it was, even as late as it was, I simply crashed barring respite.  Here it is, nearly midnight thirty, and I am just now waking.  Sleep, this time, was good.  Clean of worry about a phone call.  I did forget to turn the phone off.  Not sure I would have heard it.

Now to wake, then get the path cleared for the water heater.  It isn't huge, at 40 gallons.  But it was a heck of a job for just me.  I did the best I could, but it got bumped going down.  It isn't just the weight, but also the length, and even girth.  It is about four and an half to five feet wide, and one and an two to three feet in diameter?  It weighs nearing a hundred, and is slippery as a fish.  Tricky.

It has cooled, but not really all that much outside.  Down to 72 to 74, or so.  Cool enough that opening the house is worth the effort.  While it isn't sticky out there any longer, it is still somewhat humid.  Down to 44%, or so the device reads.  The upstairs was staying around 73 with just one ac, so that was good.

Hmm, something to eat, then on to waking.  Good evening.

Finally, awake.

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A call, halfway through sleep.  I couldn't wake for it.  Wasn't absolutely sure it happened.  Even so, it nagged my sleep.  On days and nights I don't have things, I need to remember to block that thing off so nothing gets through, since I won't be able to answer anyway.

As it turns, there was a call.  It was my mother.  She had a doctor visit, and seems to be doing well.  She should only be there, perhaps, two more weeks.  All good news.

It is 71 upstairs, 78 to 79 downstairs, and 80 outside, with 47% humidity.  It is stickier outside, more humid, if it seems like the weather is trying to produce rain.  It just isn't getting it done.  Just slightly sticky, this isn't Iowa or Texas by any stretch of the imagination.  Or Phoenix or Tucson.  I... didn't realize how bad those places got during the monsoon season.

I had a tough time waking.  Only woke, even so, because of the nagging worry that I was called.  I wish I had been able to check, and get that, so then sleep peaceably.  Having that nagging worry made sleep difficult.  I would like to go back to sleep, not sure I can.

Blood sugar is 157 fasting.  Not great, but it sure beats the upper 100s and lower 200s.  The average is much better, though, still, at 114 for the week.  I have been on medicines for a week, straight I think, now.  And had only been missing a day or two at a time, from time to time, so was not actually starting over from fresh... had medicine still in there, I would guess.  So, starting tomorrow, I will begin checking bp.  I wanted to be on it a full week before beginning to check.  Give the stuff time to work.  Kept missing.  Tomorrow, finally.  Then, sometime this next week, to get to the V.A. for bloodwork.

Now, this evening and through tomorrow if necessary, to get the way cleared for the water heater from upstairs to downstairs.  And, maybe, try to figure out how to drain the water heater downstairs?  Ugh.  I just don't know how.  Without a sump pump.  Not sure I can afford one.  Bleh.  Always something.

Something to eat, too, probably after chores, and getting the girls fed.  Maybe a shower, sometime tonight.  As well, getting laundry up and begin working on that.  If possible, some cleaning in the bathroom too.  Always more than I can possibly do.  Have to try.  Later.

Blood sugar was crashing.

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I had meant to do a few things then go on to bed a bit earlier.  When I did chores, I was completely wiped out.  Which seemed quite odd.  So I checked blood sugar.  At 58 I get why I was crashing.  So, a bite to eat, and staying up to see how things went.  Bratwursts and sauerkraut.

It seems to have worked.  Several hours later I was up to 98.  Still, I was a bit nervous about going to bed at that level, so I had baby carrots, celery sticks, and a low-carb peanut butter.  Nothing fancy, but an easy meal.  Not perfect, but what I could do.  It should do.

While up, getting that ready, I checked outdoors.  At 11:30, or so, it was still only 72!  That's... really cool for high summer, nearing noon.  Overcast.  Rain could be coming.  Yeah, almost spooky.  This really is more like later September, even into October.  We often get a storm on or near Halloween which sets the thing to winter.  Up to that, we get weather as we have.  Not much worse, about similar amounts of rain.  Perhaps a bit cooler, as there is less sun, and time over time of less sun per day, and more clouds, slowly cools the world.  Still, might close, given the givens.

I did finish the last load of laundry I started.  I am considering another load, but not as I go to sleep.  Perhaps "tomorrow".  No fogging tonight, no drive.  So I have the night off, and might be able to do some things to prep for help with the water heater tomorrow.  I need, at least, to clear the way.  That will be quite a chore, on it's own.  So be it.  I will do my best.

On to bed.  I showered last night, so all is good.  I'd still like to shower again, this evening.  Just because.  But... who knows.  Chores were done last night and this morning.  Cats have been fed.  If I can, I'd like to do a bit of work on their litter before bedtime.  I like the little ones, and do my best to offer them a pleasant place, clean facilities, food, and water.  And... they... watch over me, and tend me as only the living can.

Good morning, day, and night.

She, of the first.

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Not a goddess.

Freezing?

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Very strange.  It is 76 in here, near the computer, with 42% humidity.  I have a fan going, in the room, aimed at the ceiling so not directly on me.  And I am absolutely freezing.  I had dinner.  So it isn't a lack of food.  Very strange.  Yes, long-johns and unders, shorts, and a t-shirt, shoes and socks.  Shouldn't be shivering, but am.

I went down at about 07:00.  Couldn't wake until about 19:20, give or take small change.  Got a shower in.  We got out before 20:00.  Finished a bit early, if more because he didn't deem to take the sprayer truck back to the shop.  Though it was a faster night, too.  It was hitting down to 66 by 22:30, so it is cooling.

It... isn't so much that it is cool?  It is that it is cool FOR being high summer.  It... feels... wrong?  Right?  Right.  It definitely feels wrong.  There is something in, or to, the air.  Two ac's are too much, now.  Not only does it feel cooler, cold even, it actually is cooler.  It has something to do with the sun not being out as long or as hot as usual for this time of year.  The earth is literally cooling.  And... I can feel it.

The ducks have been managed, but I have to get to the rabbits yet.  I have refilled most of the waterers, but wish to finish them off before hitting the rabbits.  Their food should be good, but some waterers may need to be refilled.  I am planning on refilling any empties, as well, after I finish.  Just to have it all topped off for tomorrow.

I also finished all cottons completely, and have set synthetics to dry.  It's too iffy, regarding rain, outside.  It seems to rain every twelve to eighteen hours, on some sort of weird rotation.  Plus, with so much humidity, the clothes aren't drying as quickly... plus the lack of consistent sunshine.  Yea, I'll use the dryer until after the monsoon season.  But, it is mostly done.  I may have enough wool and silk to do a small load.  But, if so, it'll be done tomorrow.  Hopefully I will get a load or two upstairs, and folded or hung.  Ugh... I really need to get a bar in the closet.  Sure, it's being used for storage, but I can use it for both I do believe.

I also have to figure out the path from upstairs to down in the basement, to get a water heater from the en suite to the basement.  Never hooked the water heater up, upstairs.  The one downstairs is already going out.  Hard water, here, plus I took it down solo... so beat it up on the way.  Plus, it lasted ten years or so.  Bleh.  I'll also consider how to drain it.  Ugh!  There is a sump pump down there, but I think it was shot.  A new one, I suppose?  Bleh.  Double bleh.

Anyway... I'd better get to some things, then get some sleep and try to get to more things, before long.  Good day, or night, or morning, or whatever the heck it is, here or there.  Later.  Or much later.

Oh, a dream.

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What a dream!  I was in Italy, for some or no reason?  Rome.  Only it was a Rome never seen in history.

There were streets, like any other.  Local runs, between here and there.  Congested, tight, even dangerous for many reasons.  A wrong turn, or a wrong crowd, and people could be robbed or murdered.  There were better local roads, but all carried risks of one sort or another.

But there was another set of roads.  Built by the classical Romans, and kept as well as possible.  Some had fallen, others were partly fallen, yet many were still whole.  If one could never know if today was the day.  They stretched miles into the sky, and would take the driver from one part of the city directly to another.

The city was based on the destination points of those roads.  All roads may lead to Rome, but the superhighways were where it was really at?  Something like that, I thought I heard.  There were many of these roads.  Houses under them.  Crazy.

As mentioned, these roads went miles into the sky, and then back down.  They really weren't designed for automobiles, but had held up well.  No semitrucks and trailers, or even heavier trucks such as dump or trash trucks or mobile home type things were allowed.  Only civilian sized cars and pickup trucks.  No side rails, just wide enough for two and an half standard vehicles.

Speed limits were typical for what you would find on a local highway, in the US, around 55 to 65.  People really didn't push it.  People died frequently enough.  I guess it just happened.  Whether driving off an edge, pushed off in an accident, or if part of the road collapsed.

On the road I was on, that particular day, it had become a one-way express, because half of the road had fallen.  It was a terrifying drive.  Especially for me.  My fear of heights, while mostly tamed, was at it's worst.  More so because there was no mitigating the steep break of the view.  Either I was looking at the road, or looking up to a mile or two down, there was no middle ground or way to settle that.  Ugh...

I kept having to wonder about the houses below, when the road gave way.  People had to be dying all the time, from above and down below.

There was something about a book, too.  But that got lost as I woke.  It was interesting, for me, for some reason.  I simply can't remember why.  Oh, and something about shopping there, preparing to make a feast for family and friends.  I had to consider which peppers to get, hot, mild, or simple... adding spice to the latter as wanted or needed from other sources.  I went with the simple, similar to a bell pepper, though obtaining crushed spicy pepper for certain meals, or specific guests.

Such an odd dream.

A reasonable start.

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It was 71 upstairs, with just one ac running.  Being that it was cooling very well, and has been cool lately, I went with just on air conditioner.  Usually I turn both on at night.  It was in the mid 70s downstairs, all closed up.  It was 55 outside at around 07:00 to 07:30.  So I opened up the house and it is dropping to the mid to low 70s.

Chores, first thing.  Everyone has food and water.  Cats and litter soon.  Medicine in, and a bottle of water to start off the day.  Then I called my mom.

I have to admit, I was a bit worried.  Almost afraid to call.  She was sounding good.  Healthy, rested, solid of mind.  A bit of weakness back there, but nothing to be unexpected.  I had thought her surgery was going to be an easy one.  It wasn't what I thought.  They opened her up like a fish, only sideways.  They just took the staples out yesterday, I believe is what she said.  As well, they were dosing her incorrectly on pain meds, which I guessed from one of our calls.

Oddly, as bad as I thought she sounded, she thought... on our last call... that I sounded really bad!  I... didn't realize.  But the heat had been breaking me down pretty badly.  Today, with both of us sounding good, we had a good conversation.  She is getting visitors.  At least three visits on the weekends, plus occasional visits through the week.  And they are taking care of her needs and wants.  So, there is that.

She is getting up on her own, and getting around.  The only requirement is that she use a whistle when she is getting up, to let them know first.  If I end up staying with her a bit, I will probably have her do the same, to be honest.  Just so I will, probably, be listening a bit more intently for a bit.  Not a bad idea.

I started another load of laundry, and may do one or two more through the day.  Possibly some cleaning in the bathroom.  As well as resetting waterers.  If I can do more, it will be breaking down more boxes, and maybe some work in the kitchen, or dishes.

Ugh.  I woke very early, considering I went to bed at 04:00 to 04:30.  I'm not sure why.  Still, waking was easy, so I am up and at it.  I will probably nap sometime in the afternoon, so the drive tonight is easier.  I keep finding things gone missing.  Tp, food items, trash bags.  I can't keep up.  I may just empty my larders and keep bare shelves.  Disposing of everything but the bare essentials.  I have no other real choice.  I have everything locked down, and they are still getting in.  There are... a few other things I may try first.  As well, I may do a few things to try to batten down the hatches better, and make is so wherever they are breaking in, it is apparent.

At this point, I might as well be living in a slum.

Later.

One more load of laundry.

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Chores done, cat food brought up, cats fed, and their litter managed, I decided to go ahead and run another load through.  I'll put it in the dryer and let it run when I go to sleep.  I'd rather go on to bed, but clean clothes sounds good.  And getting that task further along also sounded good.

The ducks wouldn't come out to drink.  It think it is just too cool.  Not that they can't handle the cool, even cold.  But it is hitting fast.  They just aren't used to it.  So, they would rather sleep than drink.  Plus, cooler weather... they just aren't as thirty.  Henry, or one of the indian runners, let me know he was awake.  He, and they, didn't come out of the hutch though.

The rabbits were good, food and water gets checked.  Oh, I should refill waterers, but... no.  Not tonight.  I'll do it when I wake.  Cold water just doesn't sound fun to play with at the moment.  If I thought I could, I'd... hmm... maybe?  I think I will light the grill and put some sausages on it, to go with sauerkraut.  I am going to be up, waiting to put the laundry over.  And I am still hungry.  But I don't want more carbs, with the bread.  Rye is better, but still not great, compared to breads.  Sauerkraut and bratwursts are nearly carb-free.  And, even what is listed may not actually be real carbs.

Good thing I bought sauerkraut.  The two packages I had in the fridge have been stolen.

Oh, and it is already 58 out there, or so.  It might cool a goodly bit before morning.  I've got a bit to do, but it's pretty much it for tonight.  Good night.

The drive and chores.

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I almost missed going along.  No call, or text, odd.  I woke a bit after 20:00.  The alarms went off around 17:00 then 19:00.  I just couldn't really wake.  Thought I would hear the beep, but nope.  Or... did he honk?  I don't know.  So I called.  He came back and picked me up.

I grabbed a sandwich, and then headed out.  He was rather tired tonight.  I can see why he decided to pick me up.  Some nights are more difficult than others.  It was dropping into the 60's before midnight, say 23:30 or so at the latest when we returned.

I am still sleepy.  I'll check the laundry, probably give it another run in the dryer.  Then set up a load for in the morning... or whenever I wake up.  Then go on to bed.  Hmm, perhaps feed the girls, and check their litter as well.  I am hoping to get to work, cleaning in the house, starting in the bathroom and kitchen.

So tired.  But staying on medicine, if having to do it in odd ways.  Night meds in the morning, and the opposite of course.  Slow acting insulin in the evenings pretty much back on regular.  Fast acting is still hit or miss, but so it is with food.  I just don't always eat.  Doing my best.

At least chores are daily, twice daily most days.  I'll check the critters tonight, and redo any waterers needing filled as well, then go on to bed.  It feels like it is going to get cool, again, tonight.  Whether mentioned or not, it was 50 to 52 this morning, an hour or two after sunup.  Quite the thing.

Anyway, that's that for tonight on here.  Sleep well.  Amen.

Almost.

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It took a while to get to chores.  Finally finished.  Oh, laundry.  Yeah, I'll get to that before sleeping.  But... very shortly.  It isn't procrastination.  It is some form of exhaustion.  I don't mind it, to a degree.  I am trying to push days and nights around.  Though with the weather being as it is, that may not be possible?

It was finally up to 70 about twenty minutes ago, at 11:00.  Wow, that is a very cool temp for this late in the day, in early August.  Who'da thunk it?  Oh, right, yes.  That... was rhetorical.  Anyway...

So, laundry flipped, cat litter, then on to bed.  Blood sugar was good.  Not sure what it was fasting, but it was 125 after food, more food, and a dose.  So, I'm good with that.  And medicine taken.  I took night medicine first, so I'm not peeing so often while trying to sleep.  Those water pills can be annoying.

Well, nothing else will be done today.  Other than those last two jobs.  I'll set the alarms for about where I set them yesterday.  Though this time I will keep the phone nearby, if limiting incoming to knowns.  I tried to just block the crank calls, but they just changed numbers.  Burner phones.  At least, because of my situation, I can tell when it isn't important, or for me.  A trick, or three.

Yeah, a few things then on to bed.  Good morning, still, day, and night.

Failing already.

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So tired.  It had been so warm.  After realizing it was cool outside, and opening up, the temp in here dropped from the low 80s to 72!  I think that got to me.  I enjoyed it, but that much cooling, that fast, is causing me to falter.  I'd best do chores, then go on to bed.  A full sleep or a nap... I just can't tell.

The sandwich was quite good.  Beef, swiss, ground mustard, and rye bread.  A few extra slices of swiss, just as a snack or side.

I had hoped to do more.  It just isn't going to happen.  Chores, and I may fold towels and put the load in the wash over to the dryer... and prepare but not start another load in the washer.  That way I can honestly say I did something... beside chores.

I sort of got lost.

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The house was closed up, and in the upper 70s to low 80s near the computer.  Heat just... causes me to drift.  Finally, I checked the laundry.  Reset the towels to a short extra dry, and put another load in the washing machine.  Well, and grabbed a few things from upstairs, the last of the dirty laundry.  I think.

Then I checked outside.  Wow, it was only about 51 to 52 out there, at 07:30.  So I opened the house up, and it is cooling like a breeze.  I'm not sure how much I can do.  But... I'll try some things.  I will be doing chores, shortly.  Birds, bunnies, and cats.  The last have already been fed, but fresh water while at it, and cleaning their litter would be good.  I redid their litter, whole, Sunday.  So it's just a matter of keeping up on the fresh.

A bit of a breakfast, though probably more, shortly.  I had some fresh cherries.  Perhaps a sandwich shortly.  Nothing fancy, but it works well.  I need to thaw hamburger, and have crumble ready, so as to make taco salads with the lettuce purchased yesterday.  

I'm thinking I'm back.  Or... until the heat cripples me.  If I had realized it was going to be this cool, I would have tried to get out to work... digging in that hole.  There is pipe, needs to be cut out.  I've been told it can be cut out just fine.  So... yes, by someone who installs these things.  Though, who knows?  Some of it I was pretty sure about myself, though.  Then again, I've... been wrong before.  Too.

Yeah, a sandwich, then chores.  Good morning and day.

Oh my word.

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Sleep was luxurious.  I... was able to push my schedule around, two days running.  Sometimes that means I have changed my cycle, sometimes not.  I don't know yet.  Today I was awake until 15:36?  Right around there.  I crashed hard, but woke from time to time.

As well, I set the alarms from 18:00 and 19:00, hoping to be awake in time for the ride-along tonight.  No-go.  He had a meeting, so wouldn't be back to town, so had to go solo tonight.  I found this out only after struggling through two alarms and snooze sets, to 19:20.  Oh well.  Good practice?  Gah!  If I had checked my texts, I would have known earlier.  But if I had been in shape to check my texts, I wouldn't have been struggling with alarms and the snooze bar!

Still, I was happy.  Back to sleep.  I kept waking, off and on.  I do that anyway, more so, though, when I am sleeping at times I have until very recently been awake.  My mind wants to have a regular schedule, and tries to create that, reality be damned.  In spite of having almost no capacity to lead a regular, regulated, scheduled, regimented, life.  It WANTS to lead such a life.  It tries to do so.  It is, simply put, broken.  Has been for decades.  And nothing I or any other have tried to do could change that.

Up at midnight twenty?  Something like that.  I put the laundry into the dryer.  It's still too risky to rain out there, last I saw.  So I will just use the dryer for now.  I am cleaning the washing machine, then have two or three or maybe four loads, some of them being rather small if so, ready to go.  I should be able to kick out what is in the dryer, and two more loads, through and out, tonight?  Maybe.

Perhaps another shower.  Maybe a shave, but a simple quick, one-stage shave.  Just to clean and keep up?  Maybe.  If I haven't shaved in a week, I have to shave up, down, and sideways... literally.  If I shave a couple days after my last, just one pass should do.  Oh, and I should order more of those razors.  My word are they good.  I may try them in my other, simple, razor, and try the razors I was using it that on this... just... out of curiosity.  I like seeing what works better.  And the only real way to success is through failure.  Knowing costs failure, until success is achieved.  I don't quite need scientific levels of mindless repetition, though I do need some repetition in order to be sure... call it a... an... engineers level of certification?  Yes.  Well, when I can.  These days it isn't quite what it used to be... if it ever was?  I... think... at one time... it was far closer to that than it is now.  Hmm?  Oh... right.

Anyway...  Up and at it.  I will look for the missing piece, take down more boxes, shower, shave, do more laundry, and begin cleaning the bathroom.  Oh, and, perhaps cooking something or other.  Brats, or sausages of some sort, and sauerkraut tonight, or first.  Later.

Not everything.

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One of the things hoped to be done today was stalled.  I thought the it was in the box I was expecting to return it in.  It was not.  To be honest, it may have been stolen.  As I am sure I didn't remove it.  I will look around for it.  I don't have high hopes.  Still, maybe it was moved and I just forgot, or was moved by others, but not taken.

Grocery shopping too.  Just a bit.  And a return on an item at Home depot.  Though there may be a problem with that.  I am sure the price was higher than what they returned.  If so I'll have to go back in.  Though, if I find the item to be returned, I'll have to go back in anyway.

I am so tired though.  Not only did I do a lot, I am up well past bedtime.  My functional bedtime is around 06:00.  I have pushed it two days running, and by six hours and more.  Plus, I think blood sugar was crashing, so I had to do bad things.  Better than trouble.  It didn't get bad enough that I got ill, but I was feeling it.  That on top of exhaustion made it tight... at least until I was able to gobble some carbs.

Now it's just sheer exhaustion.  But I have to come down, slowly.  I can't just go to bed.  Gah!  Oh, no.  I have to gently ease down, and put groceries away.  But I will be to bed as soon as I can figure it out.  Good afternoon, day, and night.

Tasks and chores.

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I did get one of my tasks done.  Late, but... done.  One time still.  Just later than I had hoped.  Ran out of weekend again.  Still, done.

Chores this morning.  I still have a bit to do.  Will get to it, soon enough.  Medicine taken, last night and this morning.  Things ready to go, for more today.  Laundry started, towels... whites... finally.  As well, all dirty laundry brought down and separated.  

A shower taken last night.  And a shave, a nice clean one.  The razors which came with the newer, adjustable, shaver, are superior.  But they only last about two shaves.  The others weren't as sharp, but lasted three or four shaves?  Oh well.  I'm not worried about it.  I will get more of those superior razors though.  My goodness, when they are sharp, they take everything, and in a hurry.  Toss a bit of baby lotion on after, and it's getting scary close to competing with a baby's bottom.  Not that I actually know, just... surmising.  And I'd like to keep it and unknown.  Theory, on some things, is quite good enough.

I even got trash collected, from the front room to the kitchen, bagged all, and out.  Then sorted recycling, got it all bagged, and out as well.  My bigger bags have disappeared.  They are taking those like they owned em'.  I won't buy ahead on those anymore.  Just a few, for maybe a month at a time.  Or just stop buying them altogether if they keep stealing those.  Everything was bagged, put out, and the barrels taken to the curb.  Plus, utilities are paid, and for the next six months and change?  Maybe.  Should be.  Makes it feel better when it is paid up.  I... just... forget.

Yes, a few more things.  I would do a blood sugar check, but I just ate.  Dosed too.  Cloudy, but sure doesn't seem in a hurry to rain.  Humidity, however, is up to 59%!  What a nuisance.  Temp is 60~62, last I looked, outside.  Staying in the mid 70's indoors.  Bleh.  Anyway... Have a good morning and day.  I'll be up for a goodly bit, so it's not quite goodnight yet.  Later, or maybe goodnight.  If I don't post again.

Rumbling out there.

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No rain, this afternoon anyway.  And it really isn't cooling much.  To 70, outside, F, but dark since I woke, being overcast.  Some air movement, but not that much.  It's as if most air movement stopped.  Occasionally a breeze.  Just not as much cooling as hoped.  Then again, it really shouldn't have cooled at all.  Weather is here a month or two early.  Doesn't mean it will last, or it will stay that way.  Who knows, everything could just pass, and it go back to being hot, and unusually so, for the next three months.  Things aren't normal.  Highs and lows, combining, and extreme weather everywhere, actually means global cooling.  Just... not manmade.

A shower, shortly.  Perhaps a shave too.  Then a bit, yet tonight.  Nothing fancy, but I am planning some things.  A few things tomorrow, early, as well.  It is hoped.  Who knows how things will work out.  Sure am hungry.  I'll have to figure something out to eat, shortly.

Fasting blood sugar is at 156.  It might sound high, but it was 200 yesterday, 196  the day before, 250 a few days before that, and in the mid three hundreds when I started back on insulin... say... a week ago?  The trajectory is good.  I won't even say I am eating correctly.  I am simply not eating often, so have more leeway when I do eat.  And, actually, my weekly average is 139.  So, between less eating, even if worse, and dosing, I am getting it back under control.  I haven't started checking bp.  I won't until I have a week under my belt, of heart medicine, and the new stuff.  Then I will begin checking... giving it a week after that, to get some kind of an idea of effectiveness, or the lack of.  The heat had thrown me off.  I'm back on, for now.  And have a method to, potentially, handle future heat.  If it stays as is, I... will do better, until it dips.  Yea.

Well, it's about time to get a shower and something to eat.  A very light dose of insulin, depending on what I eat... probably a liverwurst sandwich, a small container of fruit (yes, sugar free/keto), and a bottle of water.  Bleh, but... it's something.  I am rather hungry.  Can't really eat much though.  Later.

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.

Still awake.

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It just passed 11:00.  The last twenty minutes have been agony to stay awake.  Still, I'm trying to make it a little longer.  To noon?  If possible.

I found the duckling of Crow.  It had been bitten.  Was bleeding.  Whatever killed it didn't get to take it, or so far.  There is nothing I can do at this point.  I didn't hear anything, and the door was open.  It was right out front.  I just don't get it.  I have... changed something around.

It is up to 74 outdoors, probably hotter now.  Humidity is 57%, and it is 76 in here, near the computer... which is usually several degrees higher than the rest of the room.  I've closed up for the day.  Even with it being overcast, it is warming up out there.

I will take night medicines as I go to bed, so I don't have to take the waterpills right before I sleep.  I have been trying to both eat and dose with insulin, both types.  I'm still juggling a bit too much.  So tired, more so while trying to push my sleep to a later time.  I'll keep at what I can, and catch up if I fall or fail.  As possible.

Well, gotta admit, I don't think I'll last to noon.  Meds and the slow acting insulin, then on to bed I do believe.  I did okay, just not as hoped.  Good night.

It has cooled.

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With the front door finally able to be opened, and cooling from a possible, continuing, storm front... which keeps redeveloping... though the time of it's appearance seems to shift... much like my sleep patterns.  Hmm?  I mean, it seems to actually, finally, be helping to cool the world hereabouts, and it brining in rain.  But when it hits is anyone's guess.  It had been early afternoons.  Shifted to evenings, then later.  Though, coming and going as well.  It seems to have settled in, overnight, at least from last night onward.  

Humidity is very high, 57%.  The outside temp is 68.  The front room, near the computer, is 72 while the room generally is 69.  And the living room is 73.  It's the rock, limits the cooling to ground temps.  Upstairs is between 72 and 73, probably, with a humidity between 40 and 45.  Ac cuts humidity, but only a bit.

We did get rain, and a decent amount of it.  But, honestly, this is seeming less like late August and more like late September.  Even in August, when we get rain, it doesn't cool like this, and we don't get days of it in a row.  Maybe even more like October?  I don't feel the need to water the grass, though, for a few days.  It is supposed to be gone, the weather we are having, by Tuesday.  Then again, they really didn't see it coming in, from what I saw.  So who knows.

I am going to try to be up a goodly while longer.  And from now on, I'll try to break through back into day.  I have a few things I really need to do tomorrow, early.  Will have to hope.  And push.  And that pushing starts this morning.  If I can just lift the weight of day into early afternoon, I should be good... today and tomorrow.  If I fail after that, so be it.  But, for a few days, a minor miracle is all I ask.  Pray.

One more pair of shoes on the way.  This will give me, after buying and trying with mostly success, shoes for the last three months, four pair.  The shoes I like, I would like to get an extra set.  Who knows what is coming, but shoes are more important than... a lot of other things... if it all goes south, hard and fast.  I have warm and cool clothes.  I have extra enough to alter, or... thought I did.  Many items have gone missing.  A lot of t-shirts, shorts, even underwear?  Yep.  Perhaps they are just using it to burn?  No idea.  

Still, shoes, especially in my size... after finally knowing my size and getting shoes that fit, really can't be easily replaced in troubled times.  And, yes, one pair even has a sewn, replaceable, sole.  Two are work or hiking type tennis sorts of shoes.  And one is a slip-on, which is great for morning chores and around the house.  Oh, and a size 14 of those last...  bit tight, but they work for short periods.  Now that I have shoes that fit, I hate wearing even the 14s.  Two sizes too small is what I had been wearing most of my life.  Gah!

Chores are done.  Birds and bunnies all look pretty good.  The cool has them much more chipper.  I enjoy watching them.  Especially the ducklings, though I enjoy their parents, aunts, and uncle as well.  I just wish I had a place to put the rabbits, a little run to put some of them out from time to time.  I keep thinking of building a mobile cage for them.  But the cost of wood, right now... it's just too much.  I have the wiring, I think.  And some of the wood needed.  But, not only will I build a caged part, I will also build an enclosed part, out of plywood.  So they have a place to go for weather, or safety, should something try to get in.

Dreams, hopes, ideas.  When heat isn't getting me, or I'm not already beating myself up trying to change my sleeping schedule, or cold taking me out... or simple weather changes, assuming I have the money, I still might not have the energy!  You think you have it bad?  You have no idea.  You really don't.  I'll keep at it.  I am sure you do.  Good morning and day.