So very cold!

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Hitting 08:32, it is still 36 out there, F.  A warm breakfast really isn't helping.  I finally gave up and turned the furnace on and up, a bit.  Overcast, but no rain, or snow, to my knowledge.  Though, that could happen at any time.  At this temp, I would expect snow.  If that may depend more on upper level temperatures.  Though, my guess is those would be as cold or colder, but you never know in spring.

Sassy is extra hungry.  I would guess from the cold.  I don't mind feeding her a bit more, when she really begs... at least a certain way.  There is the "I'm bored, feed me" beg, and then there is the "I'm starving, poppa, please feed me!".  Yea, I can tell the difference, and I do tend here pleas, if I will lightly treat her boredom.  I am sure it is similar with actual children.

Oh, and... I have been trying to snack, and eat, myself, a bit more.  Nothing fancy, trying to manage hunger, and boredom, myself.  So, yes, I get it.  Currently snacking on olives.  I purchased a bulk small barrel of kalamata(?) olives.  When it arrived, I really thought I had so overbought that they would mostly be wasted.  And, maybe.  But, so far, from March of '21, they are still good.  They were a bit mushy to start, having been pitted.  And they remain about the same.  Wonderful, really, all told, to this day.  The container has more like a hatch, which can be battened down.  Seems airtight.  And the red wine vinegar and else brine seems to hold well.  Refrigerated, as well.  Quite a nice little keto snack.  I also recently ordered beef sticks.  But am saving those, more, for the trail.  An... incentive.

I have cabbage heating, for a warm butter transmitter.  Something warm would be good.  I'll grab a jacket after this post.  So very cool, cold really, even in here, in the front room.

Speaking of the back door, I found it unlocked again, just today.  I can tell.  The handle lock just barely closes.  I have to work with it to get it to shut, then lock it.  At which point it will stay well in place.  Unless someone unlocks it and tries to make entry.  Even if they lock the door back, getting it tight, from the outside, is a bit of trick.  Whoever is doing it has no awareness, or patience.  Easy to catch.  No, the door simply won't release, without being unlocked, once it is set.  I've tried, inside and out.  Checked when it was windy, or went from cold to hot.  I was trying to find... any other way.  So far, no other way has been found.

Oh... those olives are nearly double what I paid for them... maybe more than double.  Glad I have many left, and in good condition.  If they were still at a reasonable price, I might have ordered a spare jug of them, and just kept that down in the larder.  Oh well.  I'll keep looking, checking prices.  They always fluctuate, and sometimes by a LOT, even before the 'pandemic.  It seems amazon is a gambling hall, for sellers.  Stock market for retailers.

Well... on to... something.  A jacket, first.  Maybe a bit of looking around the web, see if anything is happening in the world of which I can gain a bit better, if real not propagandized idea about.  Blogs and other resources offer the suggestions of reported news, with a beginning to breaking that down, looking for better or more true data, and asking the right questions about the data, both what may be false about it and what may being neglected through it.  Too bad one can't depend on any news source.  I suppose that is the lazy way, anyway.

I am still amazed that Ukraine is still not down.  And, by the sounds of it, it isn't going to go down.  Some of that is because Russia isn't, or is not longer, planning to do so.  Did they hit too much resistance considering their budgets of acceptable losses and expenses, or was it never quite the goal to take the whole nation.  Not sure I believe anything they might say, nor do I believe "our" analysis (which suggested Russians would run out of beans and bullets like... several months ago?).  Yea, our people don't know diddly.  Probably too busy pushing lgbtq-else to do real things.  Go woke, go completely stupid.  At this point, I doubt if our military is any better than the Russians or Chinese.  Although, that might not be a bad thing, unless field commanders panic and use nukes.  Idiots will idiot.

Hmm... yes... a jacket, and the other room.  I'll game a bit, try to warm up.  Can't seem to get going.  Maybe if I can warm a bit.  Still early though.  Later.

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Crap.  Even Dying Light 2 is broken.  I can finish the game, but there are things that can't be completed in one game, but in a different game-save line can be.  It shows I have done all of a certain thing, but the trophy doesn't pop... until I complete it in a different game-save line.  Well, and there are lots of other problems.  Currently, it is suggesting I am in a quest, so can't travel.  But, really, I'm not.  I think their updates may have broken that particular game-save line?

They don't know how to produce games anymore.  Little or big things are permanently broken.  It almost looks like they just steal bits and pieces from other games, Frankenstein them together, and hope it works.  They don't actually know how to program.

Often nothing is in alphabetical order.  Just as often, lists you go through, to clear, become reset as unopened (lists, help files, etc).  Games are frustrating to play, and it's only getting worse.  The more third-worlders they bring in to do these things, and the fewer real people working on them, the worse it gets.  Those sjw-ites don't help.  I think I'm done gaming.

The thing is, without games, I can't stay awake.  I guess I'll just sleep more.  I'd like to figure out a way to stay up another hour.  Then try to keep it to a nap.  But... I don't know.  So cold out there.  I turned the heat up a bit more, but it just... doesn't seem to matter.  Dressed warmly, with a fleece jacket AND bathrobe on top.  I just can't get warm.  Hmm... a fatted coffee might be good.  At least get me through another hour.