Later than hoped.

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A rough start.  I was down at 21:16, give or take a handful either way, but that is pretty close to the exact time.  Sleep came quickly.  Doing laundry, showering, shaving, dressing, tending Sassy, getting to town, doing four or five things in town, plus picking up water.  Absolutely crushed me.  Added to the work from days prior.  It is adding up.

The alarm went off at four.  I turned that first one off.  The second one, at six, I... attempted to exploit.  I ran through all five snoozes, but could never wake.  Nothing I could do, think, will, or anything else, would allow me to wake.  I was able to get up right at eight, with Sassy helping.  She opens the curtains, lets the sun in.  Sometimes that will help.  This morning being one of those times.

Coffee!  Fatted coffee.  I wanted some last night, but there was no way I could get to it.  So very tired.  Exhausted in ways you will never understand until you are rather old and ill near to death to boot.  Then, do a couple of days of harder labor... nearly a week now.  I am on the edge of absolute collapse.  But... I have a few more things, and days, before I can take a... break.

Today?  I'll check on laundry.  I think I put the last of the bedding in to dry last night.  It'll need another go yet today.  As well, I'd like to get the new mattresses out for a bit of airing, before putting on the cases, then sheets, then bedding.  The duvet was nicely air dried through yesterday, then fluffed well in the dryer for just a bit.  Loft is back pleasantly.  I just need to put on one of the covers.  The wool blankets and sheets are washed.  I think the one cotton blanket as well?  I think so.  I just need to check the pillows, under pillow cases, and open pillow cases.

I spent some money on the bedding.  But, even so, spent far less than a conventional bed.  Plus, mine is all cotton.  Not organic, but I have zero believe in "organic" cotton.  In cotton itself, yes.  As with wool, linen, silk, and such.  But the whole "organic" thing is, at best a fiction, at worst an evil which is worse than "non-organic" production.  It starts out neutral, and goes down from there.  So, on average, it isn't a social, civil, economic, or environmental good.  It's a lie, like every other modern "invention"... from green energy, to ev's, to zero emission and global warbling.  Even water saving appliances are probably not truly that.  Just more expensive, complicated, and easier to break plus impossible or too expensive to repair (compared to buying new).

Anyway.  I did well, for a new bedding system, top to bottom, all nature fibers.  Will it affect my health?  Doubtful.  It just won't damage it, going forward.  Really?  I believe so.  But, in any case, I needed new bedding.  I did well.  Probably, from under cases to sheets to new blankets, duvet, duvet covers, and all in?  I am figuring right at $600.  Plus, all natural fibers.  Not... bad.  Do it cheaper?  Not with all natural fibers, including the bedding.

So, what did I have to give up?  Well, what most would consider comfort.  Foam and else offers more loft, for far less money.  If you don't always actually see that reflected in the price, so not sure...  But, on average, I could have found mattresses at half the cost (basically the ones I had been using).  And, really, my bedding is humble.  In modern parlances.  But, that's how I like it, for several reasons.  I'd like to see the average household try to air out their mattresses.  They are doing good to be able to flip and flop those seasonally.  Just... how I think, these days.  No, it isn't just the Japanese who air their bedding.  Many folk, over there, and there, and there, know to do this.  Americans rejected that... for a number of reasons.

Anyway... I need to get the mattresses out, and reset the last load of laundry for a final spin.  As well, I'd like to set up dishes.  Though maybe another shower first?  A few other things?  Heat up the steak, for a meal in a while?  Not... as much as I have been doing.  But I still have things to do today.  And, maybe watch a show... play the game just a bit...  And so on.  Will see.  Ugh.

Hoping to do more work tomorrow and Saturday.  Maybe look over the en suite, buy what might be needed for that.  Consider what is needed and wanted for building a router table.  Maybe even make a few sawhorses... that can be taken down, and yet will work as a whole bench... with cross beams in both directions.  Or, at least get the wood for that, and set it to dry.  Plus, maybe a couple of 4x8 foam table toppers, for cutting plywood more easily.  As well as making sure the miter saw is level, even, trim, and ready.  And... arranging tools and other kit.

Well... way too much, but... a start in on those things, doing some of them.  Work until Saturday, if possible.  Then... take a few days off.  I won't have a choice, even if I can make it to Saturday.  Still, it has been a very good week.  Or two now?  I have done a lot, given the givens, age, illness, and whatnot.  I'll take it, and keep going with it, if possible.  Later.