Ugh.

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Woke up with a knee-buckling headache.  Just for that I stalled getting out of bed, fully waking.  I wasn't ready to face that kind, amount, depth, of pain.  So I didn't.  I wanted to see, as well, what the other button on the alarm was.  I figured it was a snooze.  Only one way to find out.  Yes, a snooze, in ten minute intervals.  I wonder if those intervals can be changed.  This watch is pretty sharp, but any one thing is a potshot.

I... am beginning to love this watch.  Tracking steps, monitoring heartbeat, checking sleep and night oxygen levels.  Alarms, on the fly, as I need or want them.  Altitude, barometer, compass, all checking to point.  That doesn't even include the ability to create routes, from my computer or phone, and send to the watch... with the ability to annotate the maps, for water sources, food sources, alternate (shorter or to town) path points.  I haven't yet tried the latter, but will be soon.

As well, I can pull maps from the company itself, or even other businesses, including the one I recently paid to participate, which has a lot of local trail maps.  The others trail apps didn't have local maps, or that I could see.  Making the choice very simple.  I am hoping to configure the watch for some very simple trails I have been on, on foot or by vehicle (nearby) already.  See how well it does with the known.  Then go on to the unknowns.  The heaviest trail I have been on my lady friend and I crosscountry skied up.  Hufta was that a row to hoe.  Massive elevation climb, but very straightforward.  That... is if I can get in better shape, and later in the summer, or fall?  I'll see.

Oh, the battery on the watch was down to 65%.  To be honest?  I will recharge the battery, if possible, before it hits 50%.  Why?  Lithium batteries, which is probably what this is, do better if not drained fully.  I haven't read the instructions fully.  And, I'll bet, if they even bothered to put that in there, it is buried way down in the bottom of some text, or subtext, or sub-subtext.  They won't just tell people.  Their business model is based on people using their equipment to the point of addiction, then abusing it to breaking, failure, or extremely shortened battery life remaining, then selling another.  And, for the rich?  Fuck em'.  I'm not rich.  Let them burn ill-gotten gains as they will, do as they will.  I have to try to make this last, a long, long, time.  Do as I should, must.

I was surprised, even on a usb 2.0, this thing has gone from 65% to 95% while I took a shower.  And is at 99% as I write.  Almost ready to put back on.  Very fast.  That is... amazingly fast.  I would not have believed that.  I figured two to four hours?  Yes, I did.

Blood sugar was closer to better this morning, at 232.  Not great, but not in the upper two hundredes or three hundreds.  I am not having breakfast first thing.  The headache is a sumbitch.  A lot of pain, a bit of light sensitivity, nausea.  Not a migraine, a physical formed sister.  Neck is out, very tip top of shoulers, back of skull... it's bones, joints, ligaments in there, crusted over, rusty.  Migraines are... cerebral?  Maybe even spiritual, intellectual, or... some weird thing.  I would much rather have physical.  That can be... roughly, more likely, negotiated.  

No eating, not first thing.  Coffee, though.  Perhaps straight, black.  No cream, no protein powder.  Well, I will give it a go.  Along with the painkillers I took.  Hoping the caffeine will... help the pain killers.  Fresh ground, french pressed, espresso.  If anything could do it, that would be it.

A final few things.  First, I just weighed in.  I did this Thursday, last time.  This isn't... an official weigh-in?  Just a... second check.  At first I about choked.  267.5?  I looked closer.  261.5.  What a relief.  I stopped choking on my tongue in perplexed fury, and... felt some, a lot of, relief.  Though, truly, why I am losing weight honestly doesn't make sense.  It just doesn't.  Still, I'll go with it.

It is 40 out this morning.  A rather nice morning, to be honest.  And, no wind or else negative weather, that I sensed.  As for today?  I am hoping to get the pipework shored up, set what must be nearing the last of the dishes to a soapy soak.  And?  food, elsewise, is all.  I have burger and fish pulled.  But am going to pull sirloin tip, for a bowl of steak tartare later.  I have the lemon, and other ingredients.  Want that.  The fish will be cooked on the grill.  Live and learn, my first time with this.  But, I think it should be better than even pan-fried.  Pans can get crowded, and the heat is a trick.  A grill has heat issues, to some smaller degree, but should... do better on average.  I also need to set up a batch of creme fraiche.  And I need to redo a pot of mayo.  While it might last well, with kefir, it does lose it's... solidity.  Hmm... I wonder if adding guar gum, xanthan gum, gelatin, or psyllium husk (whole or ground?), maybe some combination?  One or some mix of those should help with keeping the mayo more solid, now that I can make it last a month or two easily?  How do you find out?  Fuck around!  So, fucking I begin.  :0  :p

Well, watch is ready and on the wrist.  Now it's time to... figure out the headache and the rest of the day.  I'm attempting to wait until, say, ten to eat?  Trying to begin sliding intermittent fasting to later in the day.  Say from... two to eighteen hundred?  Something more in that range.  Especially as I try to arrange, then keep, my day.  Having remind me, as the hours pass, keeps me more ground.  As does waking at a certain time, or trying.  Further, I now have alarms which give me more readiness.  An alarm at 17:00 lets me know bedtime is approaching, so to stop drinking fluids and begin winding down.  Then, at 20:00, a bedtime alarm will go off.  If I go to bed before that, I just need to remember to shut it off before crawling in.

Not sure this will work.  But, this watch impresses me with how well it wakes me.  Even before the official alarm goes off, the light does it.  Amazing.  We'll see.  I might... be able to reorder my life, if I can keep to a schedule.  Now to... start this day.