So very nice.

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To bed around 15:30?  Up to an hour later, if I don't think so.  Pushed to stay awake later into the day.  Did!  Awoke a bit after midnight, but was able to stay in bed, even sleep, waking each hour after until I finally woke at a bit after four.  I thought three, but looking at the clock, I am sure I haven't been awake an hour and an half.

So, yes.  Though I probably did wake at a bit after three, as mentioned.  Must have thought that was when I awoke, but seeing the time now, not.

Sassy was fed, first thing.  Then I set up the last steak which had been thawed in the group recently.  Salted, peppered, both sides, with garlic powder on top.  Sitting out to meld and spice for an hour, forty five minutes really.  Then I turn the grill on.  By the time it is ready, the steak will have matured for a full hour, come up to room temp, the works.  It's how to do it.

The last steak I made was as perfect a steak as I have ever made.  It isn't even my favorite kind, being a new york strip.  But, not only did I cook these correctly, but these were honestly some of the finest looking new york strips I have ever seen.  So, yea, 2 plus 2 sometimes equals sixteen.  But there are some hidden squares, and the plus sign gets a spin.  Delicious.  Not even grainy.  Just right in all ways.  If I didn't know better, and I absolutely do, I would call that a ribeye.

Today?  I have been... down... for a few days.  I pushed last week.  Very nicely.  Plus, the cool has come in.  It is 55 outside, and rained again, very recently.  I had thought, perhaps, rain was done for a while.  If this was even a pseudo normal end of the high summer (if a bit early), it would rain.  Then stop for a few days to a week.  Then rain more.  Then, slowly, over time, begin to rain more often until it was daily.  This year?  We went from cloudy to rainy, and are staying wet, early, and quickly.  I think we had two or three cloudy dry periods, rather than several weeks or months of that.

No, I won't complain.  Not great for some ag, but the milk and cream is rich as gold!  And sleeping has been good.  Plus, I haven't ended up having to run the ac all that much.  The house is open, upstairs.  I left the downstairs closed, but no ac on.  It was 72/73 when I woke.  I had ac on upstairs, it was 66/67 upstairs, or so.  I shut the ac and opened the windows, leaving one fan on low.

Oh, but for today?  I am hoping to hit boxes, get a shower in, at least set dishes up, possibly check for laundry.  But, too, get upstairs and work on what laundry is up there.  Perhaps starting a load, or doing two?  Maybe.  Nothing heavy, nothing fancy.  Boxes into the suv, as I do them.  To get to town the next time I go, or what I can fit in.  Plus, to just clear the room.  There isn't a good place to stack them, currently.  Without blocking the door, which is a pain.

So, yes, plans.  Nothing fancy.  Maybe not all of it.  But... there it is.

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Damn.  Started raining again.  I'll have to eat later.  Coffee, I suppose.