Saturday, July 20, 2024

When to bed?

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I can't be absolutely certain.  Not even roughly so?  My final post was at 20:28, but that is when I started it.  It... took a bit to get it written, edited to the point I do that, vids chosen, curated, and placed.  And, I... usually can't go right to sleep.  An idea expose sort of... invigorates.  I have to come down from them.  Usually.  So, perhaps, 21:30 at the latest?

Ah, fireworks had started going off, and probably sounded off for an half hour before going up?  Which means sundown.  We have a special state-like 4th of July, but coming up.  And, fireworks are allowed a few days before and after.  That is why the fireworks.  Quite the thing.  If you like fireworks, to a degree, this is one of the better places to live.

Up at 02:30.  Or so.  Teeth brushed, Sassy fed, her water and litter freshened.  Washed up a bit.  It is 57 out there.  May well get cooler.  So I opened a few things I am beginning to close before afternoon these days.  Learning how to trim the windows and other things so as to keep it cool enough, and help it cool down.  It's a bit of a trick, but much improved this year over any other.  If resistance to the heat is very good, better than ever.  This might be better than when I was younger?

Blood sugar is the best it has been since I was last on carnivore.  At 97 fasting, that is awesome.  But... why?  I had bread yesterday, with the polish sausages.  And one or even two fatted coffees, both sweetened, yesterday?  Go figure.  I'll take it.

A fatted coffee is just brewing now.  Later, I am hoping to fry the burger, and make taco salads for a few days.  I have plenty of sour cream, and am wanting hot spiced food of late.  Been thinking about making a cajun steak, next time I do a steak.  Just blend the carolina reaper flakes, regular flakes, and cayenne, with a touch of garlic and onion powders (already powdered, but it blends it), and a touch of salt?

I have been using far less salt lately.  Just a sprinkler after the meat is cooked, not before cooking and while eating.  I feel better for it.  Getting my sodium, but in electrolytes rather than trying to get it with all else that is delivered with salts, even the "better" salts.  The trick isn't to try to eat what works for someone else.  It is to find out, from others, what could be a problem.  Cut those to see if that is your problem.  If not, go with what works without retaining weight, water, or elevating blood sugar, or whatnot.

For me, salt is a sticking point.  It, along with warmed but not fried fats, and yet fully cooked proteins, are what cause nausea.  Still have small amounts of that.  Bitters don't help to this lessor degree of nausea.  And I can live with it.  Though bitters, once or twice a week, help in some general way... resetting something in there.  Tastes like the worst sort of ass, but... just a little sting of it.  Especially if consumed right before a big gulp of fatted coffee.

Oh, I figured out sleep, a bit.  I turned off the ac, and even the fan, upstairs, before going to bed.  Slept so much better.  Sleep, and comfort, and this, and that, are moving targets for me.  I have to experiment.  And I am.

Today?  I'd like to see if I can get the reverse osmosis appliance working today.  And, maybe, level the dishwasher?  It just is not leveling!  I am going to look around for shims.  I think I bought a larger group of those recently.  For some other project.  If I can find them, super.  If not, I have others minor cuts of wood I can trim to fit, possibly.

Not sure I can get to the roof.  I am a bit... off.  I can do some light things, and maybe cut panels for the dishwasher casement?  Perhaps do some light clearing in the living room, and maybe this room.  As well, perhaps move some o the carts from the kitchen and this room into the master bedroom.  Will see.  Lighter work, today.  But in prep to more, heavier, work this coming week.

On to coffee.  Later.

2 comments:

  1. As mentioned, I have salmon& sirloin thawed, fish yesterday: beef, now (forgot the horseradish until 1/2 way through (again). Phat cream coffee on the way in Thus night (need more than one travel mug, dairy "fermenting" on a warm night, would not be good) just soda-water this morning. Slacking on my vitamins (why?, don't know) Couple D's & B's will add later.
    - Slow cooker roast... yup, forgot beef can dry fast, and pork can turn to shredded soup (Mmmmmm) I'm very sure there are more qualified "meat roasters" out there. I do have a very "Dakota" story that involves Buffalo roast over a lodge-pole pine fire.
    - Carolina reaper... what Ive had was a touch bitter and "dirty?" tasting, not just the clean heat of standard hot red pepper flakes, adds another "flavor" not just heat. jury's out.
    - 2yo. sirloin was probably what wife used to cut up for fajitas.
    - Shhh... I have "visitors" behind me waiting treats, will go for now.

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  2. A few light fatted coffees, before I went back to bed this morning. Back to fasting, I guess. Just... because? I keep thinking about salmon. I look, when in, for fresh, wildcaught, US salmon. That I can/will afford. I won't pay even $20 a pound. My guess is they end up tossing most of that, not sure why they even bother putting it out.

    And why bother with farmed sea foods, of any sort? I suppose some will buy it, but most now know better? Same with steaks in the $20 plus range. There might be a few overpaid cunts, but don't most of them buy grass finished (especially for that price)? That is way overpaying for simple grain finished, plant fed and processed, and it isn't even prime. I don't see how stores are staying in biz on that. Then again, there is a sucker born every nano second at this point. Money? Fool. Departed. Grumpy? Just woke. *grins*

    Yes, medicine, vitamins, minerals? They are all elusive at times. Even if I have a medicine library pack set up, I still miss them sometimes. Nothing to be done for it, but to get back to them when remembered. If/when the wound closes, I will back away from some. No more C, and since it is summer, and I get out occasionally enough, no D (until winter). If I get three to four hours a week out, or more, I cut the D. Though, maybe I shouldn't. I was low on D, even while taking 2k a day, so bumped it to 10k. But haven't heard what the last reading was. With D? If you have kidney, liver, diabetic, heart issues (I have all), absorption can be limited, from any source including the sun.

    As for carolina reaper? It may depend on the brand. As a, to my mind, gourmet regarding the hot? I see some brands use regular pepper seed, just adding (officially or not) the chemical that makes them hotter. And, yes, it makes a difference. Though, possibly, all brands do it from time to time? I have had luck with this brand, to date.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WIXZNF4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    As well, though, I add cayenne (pretty hot, for most, but just middling in the mix), and regular hot pepper (probably jalapeno), so that there is a blend, not just a single level of heat. It makes it better.

    However, if you don't have the flavor profile capacity for that hot of a pepper, it would be like looking into a sun lamp. Everything washes. I tasted something like that once. It just tasted, to me, like chemicals, and some odd, ugly, stomach upsetting heat. It was just chemicals, not real. Good for drunk college frats or whatever or such, on "hot wings". Not for real dining.

    Visitors. I miss my older girl. Before she passed, she almost always liked papas food. This new(er) little one just doesn't do my food. Sadly. I like to share, sometimes. (Or hide and chow it all, then feel guilty:).

    Good day.

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