Pushing, if only one way.

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Well, maybe pulling one way, pushing the other?  I have to push to stay awake until fifteen thirty.  But, to stay in bed until nearly three this morning, three thirty yesterday, I had to pull?  I kept waking earlier, midnight thirty, one forty eight, two fifteen.  Well, and a lot of peeing, if I don't think that is involved.  Three quarts the last two nights, but without any swelling in the legs, ankles, or feet?  Very strange.

I didn't think I was drinking all that much, but I must have been?  Or, just not getting up to pee as often?  Maybe.  My foot is... pretty rough.  The swelling is down, but it hurts a good lot.  I pushed it, hard, for a few days.  I knew I was pushing.  Had things to do.  Did them, at least.  Hate it when I mess something up, which had been healing, only to fail to reach the goal on top.

Compression socks today.  One of the tighter sets.  Yesterday as well, though I wore socks with it.  Not doing that today.  Just too much.

Oh, and it is cold out there again.  Negative twenty six fahrenheit.  Gesundheit?  Whatever.  But, yeah, that is pretty cold again.  I do have the furnace up.

Today?  The idea is to get to the bathroom, clean the tub, get a shower, and maybe do the dishes.  It'll be a bit of work.  I'll find knee protection, so I can do some work on the ground, and have a chair for what that will help with.  Sweeping first, then to dishes, at least one round to get them ready for a rinse.  Then set the tubs they are in out, to get to the tub.

The mesh insert I have for the drain doesn't work with debris.  But, I have a chainmail sort of cloth, used for cast iron, which might fit in the drain, and allow water through but stop the leaves which might clog the drain.  And, be easy to remove.  Ugh.  Tricks, plans, ideas, mistakes, learning, and practicum.  Might not exactly be science, more engineering.  But... it... should do the trick, one way or the other.  I'm not sure, as things turn out, that science is half what it is supposed to be.  But, engineering?  Is simply about getting the damned job done.  You know if engineering fails, not so much science.

I can't believe it is that cold.  But, it... definitely is.  I knew it.  The weather services are reporting -1 as the temp?  I went back and looked again.  That was... their predicted(?) low for Tuesday night?  But they are showing -20 currently.  Still a few degrees warmer.  I have two thermometers out there.  Which have been tested to zero.  I am surprised they are that close.  Often, they are ten to fifteen degrees higher than reading.  I wonder which one they will use for their weather models?  I can guess.

Well... on to a bit of browsing, the maybe gaming as I wake.  Be careful out there.