Rough.

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Down around 18:15, give or take a dime.  Up at midnight thirty.  Sassy fed first thing, well... second thing.  The whole race horse business must needs attending immediately.

Everything that was sore when I woke yesterday is doubly so today.  My toe is screaming.  Is it stubbed, or is it water buildup pushing the joint between the big toe and the foot out of place?  Walking here and there, yesterday, exacerbated the issue, whatever it might be.

As well, after sitting for weeks, getting up and going has my whole body aching.  That can be a good thing, in time.  Life hurts, love hurts, the rules?  I'll see in a few days.  Still, was good to get out, see the world, say hello to folk.  Then run away home.

As mentioned, yesterday I saw foods, sold as snacks but more like meals to me, being sold at costco.  No or very low carbs, inexpensive for the calorie count, and shelf stable (though some require refrigeration, they will last months in the fridge).  One I had heard about, wanted to try.  Beef sticks, called chompers.  There was another brand being offered, for slightly less.

I tried those, then almost bought them.  Until I took a closer look at ingredient lists.  The non-chomper chompers had dextrose.  No.  Just another sort of sugar.  The young woman at the stand... knew.  She either knew natively, or has heard that a dozen times before.  That one ingredient (though there is a long list) will kill sales on many products.  Dextrose, and half a dozen other derivative sounding names to it, sugar, fructose, lactose, most starches (including tapioca), high-fructose corn syrup (or hfcs, when they are really trying to be tricky, or hcs/fcs).

Does it really matter, though, Doom?  Yes, it... really matters.  Not so much to me.  I'm all but already dead.  But to you, to the middlings, to the young?  Yes.  They are suggesting, now, that depriving children of sugar in their first thee to five years will help keep them from being diabetic their whole life.

If you are struggling with diabetes, think on that.  Then look at all they ways they try to smuggle sugar and things like it into your food.  It probably isn't even cheaper to add it.  So... why are they really adding it?  That's a question you will have to ask, or really answer, for yourself.  It certainly isn't for your health, well-being, or nutrition.

Anyway, having one pack of the carnivore (of the sort cheese is allowed) "snacks".  It's enough for breakfast, for me.  At 360 calories, that's... solid.  Mini salami rounds and provolone cubes.  Very nice.  A can of carbonated water along with, nice little tucked away meal.

I'm glad I got lost looking for the chicken.  And, yes, I went over the ingredient list.

Nice to be clean.  I can now wear the base layer under pj's.  I don't while sleeping, just while awake.  Socks too.  I may attempt a shower, if I can hobble in.  I had hoped to do things today, but the foot has swollen even more.  Was hoping to get a waterpill script from the doc, just enough for a month, until the VA sends the rest.  Oh well.  I'll just have to wait for that to arrive.

Base layers, under pj's and a solid t, make live a lot better.  As well, socks.  Warm, at 72.  Almost hot.  Might be able to turn the furnace down to 68?  Will find out in time.  I now have three absolutely bombproof base layer sets.  The only down side to them is that they have to be hand washed.  Or at least on the gentle cycle.  But honestly, I do air dry them.  A bit of a fuss, but well worth it.

On to gaming, a bit?  I suppose.  Still, like seeing what Trump has planned.  Perhaps he will surprise me, and really change things up.  I have doubts.  But wish him fortune in doing a few things, and yanking congress along with him.  Figure it out.  Whatever they have on them, that causes them to go so wrong, find that file.  Either eliminate the threat, or become a bigger threat, to the crooks and criminals who are running things.  Assuming... it's not just another numbers game, with a new big guy?  We'll see.

Later.