Ran out of filters.

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Or... the machine is saying the filtration process is in need of replacement?  Something.  I need to check on that.  Because these filters shouldn't be close to being done, especially since I have titrated water softening into as close to perfection as possible.  That, and all the fresh water from this spring, which is still coming in through thaw and fresh rain, means the particle number is a quarter of what it usually is.

But, I have ordered filters.  They will... come when they come.  Wednesday, it is suggested.  Will see.  So, I am having to watch how much water I use.  Unfortunately, I pulled the refrigerated water jars, and just used those up.  Or they could act as a backup.  May go back to doing that, just switching them out from time to time.  I would like to fill a few five gallon tanks, but that would take a lot of extra work.  And, those would only last about a year, if chlorinated as well.  In a container that has been cleaned, with chlorine, first, on top of that.

People think you can just store water away in milk jugs, forever.  Man, will there be a lot of sick people when they find out that doesn't work.  Besides, milk jugs degrade, even hidden away.  But, if they don't?  The water in them would be bad, possibly extremely toxic, after even six months.  You can't clean the milk out well enough to prevent growth.  Don't do that, people!  I'm... saying that for your sake, not mine.

I didn't put the ribs away last night.  Ran out of bigger bags.  Can't find what I had in replacement.  All of those have been stolen.  Had two more boxes of big ones, and a case of quart size, down in the basement.  All gone.  Anyway, got frustrated, and it was so very late that I just went to bed.

I got them sorted this morning.  Slicing them into four meal sized portions, and wrapping them in cling foil... saranwrap.  Then storing three of them in the fridge.  One I heated and ate.  Very, very good.  A bit fatty, as such are.  But, the gristle?  Oh, I love chewing that stuff down and eating it.  I really like that part of ribs.  Almost nothing else has that?

Kefir slightly before and with, vinegar tonic after, and coffee somewhere before through to even now.  Slowly sipping coffee, it has become precious.  But, that will be it for food today.  It's enough, after feasting yesterday.  The smell, of cooking food, enervated me... to eat... to crave.  Thankfully it was all meat, so it didn't beat up my blood sugar too badly.  Still, it hurt.  Control is... so difficult.  

We are, after all, regardless of what some might suggest, apex predators.  Well, the males.  Females are... prey.  I don't just mean that in one way.  When the Russians were starving, for the Nazi attacks, they... became cannibals.  Young, single, women, were the primary targets.  Babies, too, but... that wasn't the same.  No hunting involved.  Just... saying.  Women are not apex predators... just, possibly... the mates of them.

There is no way to escape it.  And, actually, as the earthly absolutely unquestioned apex predator, we are rather... benign.  Consider if bears ruled, or dinosaurs.  They eat their prey alive, if they can catch it alive.  And, they eat almost anything and everything, including each other sometimes, partly.  You... really have to stop and think, before you judge.  We may have become too civil, for this role.  But... those things fix themselves.  More quickly than you should think.  One way or a thousand others.  Amen.

Remember.  We consume a form of our God, or so He told us to do.  What... all... does that suggest?  What does it mean He suggests?  Amen.

Then again, what does it suggest about Him?  That He may possess through others' consumption of Him?  Some... powerful things hidden in there, most do not wish to see.  But, as an apex predator, I see so... very clearly.  It... kept me away, for a long time.  But, now, even I kneel.  Impressed, terrified, but, too... awed.

It... must be Sunday.  Such thoughts.  Though God isn't ever far from my conscious mind, and is always linked in the back of my mind.  I haven't just surrendered, I am open to Him.  Even while I sin, especially then.  Learn.  It is humbling to sin with Father, Son, and Holy Ghost watching, welcome, in some sort of... hope that almost dares not be fathomed.  Amen.

Ah... on to other things.  I called my brother.  Said he would call back last time.  Got busy.  Now he is eating.  Cool.  I... understand.  Even if he doesn't call back, I... understand.  He... after all... is my brother.  He has a wife, children, pets, a house, cars to manage, and is terribly damaged.  Even if only half of that, or none of it, I would... understand.  Hopefully he calls though.

It has gotten to 73?  It had.  Rained.  Didn't hear it.  Odd, usually I do.  Anyway.  Now it is down to 68.  You know, this time of year?  We are usually somewhere between 80 and 95 as highs, more like the 85 to 90 range, with... variability.  It is also dry as a bone, and would have been for... a few weeks to months.  So... yes... very cool.  Extremely cool.  I bet they aren't even talking about it on the news.  Further, they are still saying it is far warmer than it is.  Liars will pay the price, in so very many ways.

Well... on back to gaming.  I found a bit more water.  So, I may have another coffee later.  If needed, I'll pick up a gallon of filtered water at the store.  Though... I think I can make it.  But I do need to go to the store, so... Sunday?  Really?  Which means I didn't realize Saturday was even here.  Odd.  I... did get milk, that day.  But it didn't... connect.  So very odd.  I must be ill.  Or... changing.  Or both.

Still?  It's a beautiful day.  A wonderful life.  I may only have pain to offer God, but I do, for those in purgatory.  It's all I can afford.  Would rather not, but if it's what you are good at, might as well offer that in to the good of man and God.  It's... all I can seem to do, or offer.  It does me no good.