Uhrm, that didn't work.

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I finally believed the kombucha was ready.  I set up a second batch of sweet tea, to be used for the next batch, transferred the scoby, then had a sip.  The rest is to be second fermented using frozen fruit.  I wanted to clean and sterilize a few pop top bottles, so got that going.  They are ready, but I haven't gotten to the bottling quite yet.

As mentioned, I had a sample of the kombucha.  I think it boosted blood sugar by forty five points?  Or was something else involved?  I'll try again, tomorrow.  My fasting blood sugar was 180, an hour after the kombucha it was 225.  Unless I ate or drank something else?  I don't think so, but so tired.  I... can't remember.  I need to try a pure sample, on a clear run.  If that is correct, I can't use first run kombucha.

I gave it a very long ferment period.  Of course, there is always the possibility that a second ferment might work.  Don't know.  But, something felt off, after drinking it.  I am sure there was no alcohol left.  Had it turned more to a vinegar?  There is supposed to be a fine line between the alcoholic period, the drinkable period, and the vinegar period.

My organs took a minor hit.  But, was that from the kombucha, from something else, or without cause.  My kidneys and liver were giving me backsass... not feedback on my blog type, mind you.  But, letting me know they exist and weren't happy.  Strangely, they haven't been a problem for a long time.  Since I stopped taking medicine?  You know, I think so.

Still, I want to give the first run stuff another chance, but be clear and awake for it.  And, I want to test second fermented produce from it.  If that kicks me in the organs, and jacks blood sugar, I'll just drop the stuff and wash my hands of it.  It may just not be honestly clean to drink.  For me.  You do you, but for me, if it doesn't work, I won't imbibe.

I went to bed a bit before 17:00, but woke around 19:30.  Tried to stay asleep, but just couldn't.  Dreamed my kidneys and livers had been surgically removed... from the slight discomfort while sleep.  And, was so warm!  The dream was just an extension of the felt world into sleep.  The heat?  I feel that is from the kombucha, too, somehow.  Still, another try.  And, I'll try second ferment, using frozen berries.  But I don't think it is going to work out for me.

Kefir and vinegar will work.  And, maybe, fermented veggies... especially sauerkraut, will be my next attempted addition.  Why all these things?  Good thing to know how to do, in a grid down.  When there is no refrigeration, potentially.  The only thing you need to know about electricity is, if they decide to cause mischief... at whatever level?  All they have to do is pull that plug.  Those who survive will learn how to ferment foods, hang meat in drying sheds, and such.

I asked my mom about that.  She said they would cut off the green, to the fresh, and cut some of that.  That is what they ate.  Not sure if it was smoked first?  Or... if they just hung large hanks and just did it that way.  I suspect much of it was smoked, but not sure all of it would have been.  Her dad was a tenant farmer, born in 1899.  Hmm, my house is older than my grandfather.  There is that.

Off topic, but... it's a topic of it's own, I guess.  So, yes, kombucha, I am guessing, after the difficulties today, probably isn't for me.  A few more checks, but... I'll know in the next week or so conclusively.  While up, I'll have a vinegar tonic.  See if that helps flush the kombucha, or whatever.  I just had some kefir, which always helps with this or that.

Tomorrow I will run the kefir in the big bottles through a filter, into fresh larger jars.  I reset the fermenting jars the other day.  And have enough of those jars cleaned and up to keep resetting those as needed.  And, now, the same with the larger jars.  After the resetting of those, I'll get those jars cleaned first thing, too.  So that I will have plenty of refresh jars, to use as needed and wanted.  Gotta take care of the kefir, and keep the jars switched over, or the stuff gets a wee too tight.  I like some bite, but even I have limits.

I thought about gaming a bit, but I'm just not awake enough.  And, I cut out right before a very difficult portion of the game.  I'm simply not interested or able to contend with that portion of the game quite yet.  So, a bit of vinegar tonic, then hopefully back on to bed.  Why so warm?  Some of it is me, some of it is the world...  Which is slightly warmer today in spite of it... not being so?  It got warmer and stayed war, for a while, even through the rain a bit?

The world is warming, incrementally.  Slowly, but inexorably.  Summer, not this year anyway, will happen.  It will not quite be fully denied.  Rain or shine, it seems to be trying to bull through.  My friend, in the middle states, has had back to back days in the 90s.  Which fits with the potential of a super el niño.  As I have it, if it is true, then from Cali, to here, to Texas to Florida will continue to get water.  The norther states will be dry, possibly hotter.  Dunno, that's just what I heard.  And, so far, it seems to be tracking.

How much of these weather events are a development of the shutdown of industrialization, altering... or even returning weather systems to normal... is another question.  I don't think manufacturing, even on world scale, changes much more than affecting where the weather goes.

Fools in American and European politics believed they could bury China, Asia generally, and some islands and else, in the dirty business of manufacturing, and not pay a price.  The thing is, at least in developed countries, there were attempts to make those processes cleaner.  Now bureaucrats make manufacturing all but impossible in those countries.  And the pollution resulting from it are something to behold.

When the bottom line is the only line, the price becomes impossible to pay, in the end.  But, it looks like China has priced itself out of usefulness, even for the bottom line only folk.  Fortunately or not, it did so before it could actually create an internal consumer base viable enough to support the processes.  Going cold, it seems.  Amazing how the world seems to work.

Right?  I don't know.  I think the best of minds can only hold rough suspicions, with only some viability.  Studies don't really say much, these days.  Most being political animals, based on greed themselves, or an unwarranted idealism, or such.  The truth isn't sought, at this point, only a defense of one indefensible position or another.  We are being offered crony capitalism, fascism, or communism.  None of those are good enough, and being a post-Christian world, that is all that is available on a global scale.  I choose... none of the above.  As if it matters.  Christian nationalism was the last possible hope.  But there aren't the numbers to support it, for either side.  Enough, total, but they don't agree.  Reminds me of how the native Americans lost it.  First, by warring with each other.  By the time they realized what they faced, even if they could have joined, it was too late.  Like, like.

I guess I just get to wait until I die, am killed by a foreigner, or my government... though whether directly, or medically, or through finances, I... can't be sure.  They have already given up on the American people, looking for higher bidders.  After destroying the American family, preventing babies being born, now they are ready to toss out the old, start over with new.

Anyway... I'll... finish off my tonic, and try to head back to bed.  Things are what they are.  We have been here before.  The world will get better, possibly, and get right back here, and worse.  So it goes.  Find... yourself in it.  Live well, rightly, and die was well as you may.

Could be worse.

Mind you, it was a devil, not a demon.  But moderns have... forgotten, turned their backs, on some truths.  I present two bona fides to my... claims.  When the books were still true(r)... on purpose.  From the King James (and authorized KJ version too, if you care to check) and Douay-Rheims 1899.  If even then, things can get better, too.  Don't worry.  Merely look to God, but in a state of grace.

Well, on to... other things.