Kidneys.

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I was nervous to try those.  Looked up various suggestions about how to cook and serve them.  Then, had to look around quite a lot to find them.  Strange thing?  Found them the last place I looked, and would have looked.  My very own, daily driver, usual grocery store.

While doing a different order, I asked about kidneys, and I think some other things.  Liver?  For certain.  Maybe other things.  Now, they didn't have "other", but they did have kidneys and liver.  They have it in a special place.  With cow tongue and heart.  I would do heart and tongue, but those are so very expensive now!  When they were cheap cuts (too), I used to buy those.  No more.  Ugh.

It's been a while since I have had liver or kidney.  I still have some liver in the freezer.  But this is the last kidney.  I just boil them, one at a time.  For between eleven and thirteen minutes... sort of by size.  Then cut them up, salt, and butter them.  I used to cut some of the fat and else out, but not anymore.  I just eat the whole thing, in bits.

I have to tell you, I was a bit squeamish about them, to start out.  The first two or three meals I was worried that the taste or texture would get me.  But, nope.  And, now, I just eat it like any other meat.  It's less gamey than liver, and has a far better texture.  It has a meaty texture.  There is a slight bite, aftertaste, but it is minor.  Once you get used to it, it really is pretty good.

Nearing the end of the game I have been playing.  But it's grueling, in one sense.  For the last... ten steps?  There has been absolutely no clue about what to do.  If it weren't for the internet, and "spoilers", the game wouldn't be playable.  It is an absolutely massive game, with no real effective fast travel.  If you have to go an half hour to two hours or more and then only to possibly fast travel back, or some unknown spot, it's... not fast travel.

Anyway.  I now how to find out what... I thought would be found out by doing what I was last told to do.  After having to research what to do and where to go to do it, get the stuff to do it, etc.  Ugh.  Even so, I have liked aspects of the game.  And building to build, to build, to create, to craft... it's been a bit of a puzzle.  Some of that was superior, when... a clue was given.  About half of it has been without a roadmap or realistically things you could sort by what was offered, given, or written.  You just can't "figure out" a massive open world.  Especially with so much available that isn't even used!  Ugh.

Nearly done.  Play it again, for platinum?  Maybe.  Once you have a pretty good idea about things, it's... a fairly short game.  On the higher difficulty though?  I don't know.  The game will cheat you.  It was built to cheat you.  Not sure if the higher difficulty cheats more?  Bleh.  Thinking on it.

I sent a text, wondering if the deal with go through or not.  No response.  Sort of surprised.  Maybe it is still being considered.  If something gets written, and roughly agreed, I will begin digging into the place.  Lots of things have to go.  Some things will be saved?  But, mostly, much of what I have here is going to the dump.

I'm sort of waiting to be more certain.  But, if the bell is rung, I... will begin digging, shoveling, tossing, not even all that much sorting.  Most of it will go.  Furniture, whatever they don't want or couldn't use.  Gone.  Books, going through clothes, pots and pans, so many things to sort and toss.

I'll leave canning jars, and such.  New ones anyway.  Some good wire rack shelves, and a few things like that.  The lawn tractor will be of no use.  Though, if I can sell some things, I may.  Not sure they need or want some of these things.  Difficult to sell, in this economy though.  No one has, for what they need.  Hard to sell just wants.  Or even semi-needs.

Oh, and it only got to 57 F, as a high today.  Wow.  This really is more like late October, on into November.  And snowpack has already started laying in.  It's coming, hard and fast.  Later, or goodnight.