Awake and fairly better again.

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Improvement is very limited, if improvement is compounding over days.  Just another three quarters of a liter out last night, so I slept fairly well, warmly, and with fresh air.  Not sure if that really helps, but I think so.  That may be what is causing continued improvements?  Though it seems to be warmer out there?

Yes.  The thermometer reads 30, several do.  But, it isn't frozen.  It feels more like a... soft 40.  Water is dripping, from rain.  Foggy.  Very low visibility, here at ground level... perhaps two miles?  Though it may close and open as time goes on.  There is something delicious about fog, rain, this sort of temperature oddity, and such.  As... long as I don't have to drive in it.

Oh, and the paying off of utilities has worked out.  I believe I am fully caught up.  And... will stay that way.  With a little help from my friends.  It's not a money thing, it's... incapacity, confusion, doubts, and paranoia.  Sort of causes... issues.  Help... helps... is all.

Sassy was fed firstly.  I went to bed a bit before 22:00.  Woke at around 7:30.  A bit more sleep than usual, but I'll take it.  Things have been rough.  Still are.  If more mildly rough.

I am hungry.  Wondering about this or that.  May have to see if the stores are open today?  Limited hours?  Full blast?  But... I... will avoid massive crowds.  Sometimes people relent, by this time.  Stores, sometimes, stay open for convenience of stragglers, or last minute folk, or such.  I may look around online to see.  Then drive in to check the crowd situation.

Whether the mob is there to shop, or take out a politician, bureaucrat, bad judge, or evil-doer, doesn't matter.  I... avoid the mob.  I learned a very long time ago, the mob is a very bad, often insane, thing.  If, though, too?  If you can find it's head, and cut it off, that... usually sorts things for future reference.  If it is a hydra, make the cuts fast, precise, clean, and complete.  I have dealt with the mob, a time or three.

Any mob can turn dangerous, to anyone, in the blink of an eye.  Thoughtlessly or with exact intent from one or several instigators.  You can't win against it directly, or always immediately, unless you have a gattling gun.  But... an immediate win, in that situation, may well cost you even more.  The mob will put women and children in the way on purpose.  Violence is organized.

Hmm?  Oh, thinking out loud.

Christmas Eve, is it?  We used to have oysters and/or chili on Christmas Eve.  Our family tradition, or... what I remember of it?  Typical for others?  I just don't know.  I do have oysters.  Canned, but that will do.  And cream, which is better with it.  Though will have to add water.  Half and half is better, or milk with the cream.  But I drank the milk quickly, forgetting the day, date, and such.  I'll make do quite well enough.  Oh, but fresh butter too.  Nice.

Tomorrow?  I'll thaw the last porterhouse tonight.  Have that for my Christmas meal.  Bird would be good.  If one of the stores is open, I'll see what they have.  Fried chicken?  Small game hens?  Something.  From goose to turkey to chicken, holidays, especially holy ones, have usually been about bird, though sometimes with beef or ham.  I just can't do ham, and beef is my current, mostly, daily driver.

Any gifts going out are out.  I don't expect anything, or need anything.  So... I'm good that way.  Prayers, tomorrow.  Several sessions.  I wonder if God sees prayers as gifts?  They are duties, but more?  He is complex, I think one thing may well be as a thousand things in His eyes?  All good.

On to seeing if stores are open, before they close before I get around to it.  :p  Procrastination might be a wonderful thing (with bad habits delayed), or a terrible thing when trying to get business arranged or done.  But it... can be a fun thing, if not allowed to rule the whole house?  Later.

Oh?  While there are no guarantees in life?  I... have always suspected the following to be true.  And... a small gift for those among my following who believe in martial realities, ideas, theories, and practicums?  Or... said.