90, out there.

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75/76 upstairs.  Or was.  I shut everything off and down as I came downstairs.  My feet hurt, the skin on them.  Haven't been wearing compression socks.  Just... never could get to it.  Too tired, didn't feel like it.  Those are a lot of work, and hot in the heat.  I want to, I just don't.

Downstairs it is 73 in the main, 78 in this front room.  Good enough.  Sure beats the high 70s or higher, as lows.  I'm hoping to take a shower shortly.  Wearing compression socks, but just knee-high.  And, medical grade, not the odd types they offer for those who can't really handle hefty compression.  No, these... hurt to put on, even though my feet and legs and such aren't all that swollen.  Puffy, but not even 30% swollen, let alone 250%.  Ugh.  Why the skin hurts, though?  I think it's just the slight puffiness, along with the heat.

I would work, but I really can't.  Coffee, shortly.  Some gaming, to wake.  A shower, tending Sassy, other than feeding.  Fed her right off.  I think I was to bed at between six and seven?  Up at 16:00.  Doing what I can, but not in complete control.  At least I am sleeping and waking near full days, if gaming and cooking is as much as I can do.

Another steak, later?  Or burger crumble, spiced, on lettuce?  Need to check the lettuce, might be bad.  It goes fast.  No more canned veggies.  Those are more a treat, when I haven't been eating well.  A ploy, to get me to eat.  I seem hungry today, but... distantly.  Either dissociated, or... too tired?  What's the difference, sometimes.

While it is 90, that is... cool.  In the heat of summer, which this should be, 95 to 105 isn't terribly uncommon.  More, 95 and up is the usual.  So, this is... better, cooler... weather.  I suspect the state expects another cold, wet, snowy, long winter.  They seem to be gearing up for it.  The hit the roads early, this year, and may well hit them again before winter sets in.  

Perhaps road work saves them on salt and clearing?  Or they are just making work to make work.  If, generally, Utah doesn't mostly like to do that.  More economically minded than many states.  Perfect, no, but better.  Usually.  A state without income tax thinks before just spending.  While all states are statist, not all people are.  And, for the most part, Utahns are not statists.  Most, save the hard city dwellers (and even probably not them, but the corruption in all cities is so severe!), don't want the state to have power.  Surrendering power to the state only when it is the only real option.  And, then, watching it like hawks.

No perfect way to keep the state in check, but Utahns try, and mostly succeed.  Mostly.  It's the fed we have to watch, and the fed/state collusions.  They are all power hungry sobs.  Watch them, closely.

Well... on to coffee, and gaming.