A reasonable start to... the same day?

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Tea was set and going, while I got the dishpan of hot water and cleaned over the areas I hit before, expanding a bit while I went.  Splashboards a bit better, up the walls a bit higher, hitting smaller details, now that it was easier to see what needed hit more easily.  It really didn't need a second shot.  Still, it got it.  And, I wanted to make sure.

While I didn't have enough dishes, initially, I was able to take all the big cooking utensils out, get them in, and it was easily enough for a load.  Plus the utensil containers.  Hopefully that will do well.  I also hit the small appliances I keep on the counters, again.  Though I think this was good.  Absolutely necessary?  Maybe not.  But I felt I got enough from the second washing to have been of benefit.

Back up.

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By the cast of the light coming in the window, I thought it was afternoon.  Had I slept through all of Sunday daytime, and was hitting Sunday evening?  I sure seem rested.  But... not.  I went down at 14:30, and am waking at 18:30~19:00?  Rested?  After all that work?  I guess so.

I promised I wouldn't work Sunday, not heavy, or much.  And, I won't.  But?  IT'S STILL SATURDAY!  Wait... am I supposed to be happy or disappointed with that?  Don't know.  But I'm... going to work, until, unless, I go back down.

That and more.

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Coffee was good, needed.  Then to laundry, and refilling the r.o. carafe and then reservoir.  It takes time to run that through.

Three loads of laundry, from start to being put up.  I am taking the last things upstairs, to be put away.  One load of wash is partially being dried, but I won't stay up for that.  It was too heavy, shouldn't have washed that many jeans and a few towels at once.  But... I did!  So, only put half the load into the dryer.  The rest will wait until I am awake.

Nearly done for the day?

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I reset the laundry.  There were a lot of underwear, and a few other odds and ends.  It's just taking a while.  And these are the cottons, so... it takes a bit.  I'll yet get the folding table down from upstairs.  Hoping to get that load folded and put away, and the last load folded and put away as well.  Then... maybe jeans?  I was going to do jeans first, but it's all good.

Then I got a dishpan of hot soapy water and, after clearing the north countertops, I cleaned those and the stovetop.  I'll probably do that again, tomorrow though.  Then I cleared the south part of the eastern countertops, and washed that and the sinks out.  Sure... spiffies up pretty well.  Still, another run tomorrow.  But that is it.  The rest of the things are all stored on the north part of the eastern countertops.  I'll... have to wash those things, sort some stuff, and... it's too much for me, tonight.  But I am getting something going in there.

Well, it was something.

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Lamb chops and mashed palm hearts?  The lamb was good, until it got cold.  Then it took a sharp hard turn into bitter.  Still, I got most of it down before I... really couldn't.  No, I really couldn't.  The mashed stuff?  Not so hot.  I think, if I try that again?  I'll try it with butter, again, but also with sweetener and cinnamon?  Attempt to make it into a porridge... which I dearly miss.  As potato, though, not so much.  It's... something, just not... much.  If you have a hankering for mashed potatoes, this isn't even in the same solar system.

Another load of laundry finished, and put up.  I found just a few more hangers, enough to put the clothes up, and with enough for five or six more pieces.  I'll... keep that in mind as I go through other things.  One load of underwear is drying, the last is washing.  The piles of remaining are shrinking.  Still, I'll bet there are four to six more loads.  Some of it is towels, one or two will be blankets, white cotton, and a small white synthetic load.  And a few odds and ends.  Oh, jeans.  I could fold those, if dried completely, too.

Beginning.

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And ending.  For now.  I pulled the shirts from the dryer, moved the others into the dryer, and added a load of underwear and shorts... outer shorts.  Those won't be hung either, all folded.  I even have drawers to put things, now.  Then I put all the shirts I had up on hangers.

Checking, however, for spots.  On the front.  Man food spots.  I had to throw several more shirts out.  And all of the old synthetics, after a brief review, also went.  Wasn't even going to bother washing those.  I may have just enough hangers for what is in the dryer.

A few more things, while I ponder.

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I went to check on the clothes in the dryer.  Another spin.  While at it, I decided to separate things, into piles.  I have those shirts drying, a few other items washing, but hangers won't arrive until Monday.  Fine.  While separating things, I was considering what I could wash next, rather than waste time.  Not... in a hurry, mind you.  One, two, maybe three loads over the weekend?  Right... but what.

Ah, wools and other naturals, since those are socks generally.  So no need for hangers.  And underwear, synthetics and cottons, separately of course.  But, at a slow pace, so I don't fall behind in folding.  once a load is through, don't start another until that group has been folded, paired and else (or hung for wool socks, to dry, not die).  I could get all of my skivvies sorted, some undershirts which can be folded (unlike general wear tshirts), and any blankets and towels in the piles.

No idea when I went down?

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I was asleep hours before I crawled into bed.  Even if I was posting here.  I was so on autopilot.  Still, excellent.

Waking up right around 20:00, give or take a decade?  Up and at it pretty well.  Not... going to push it today, either.  But, after yesterday, I can see that I can still do a goodly bit of work without breaking my mackerels.  So... some things.  I actually already did most of the heaviest work for the day.  I brought most of the clothes down from upstairs.

All right, a few final flourishes.

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Laundry was set to dry.  And given a final spin.  I am done, for today.  So I will deal with it tomorrow.  The cast iron was rinsed, dried, and oven baked for just a bit.  Then the oven was opened until it cooled, then shut.  Dishes were pulled from the machine and put away.

Oh, a few odds and ends, here and there.  Water run through the r.o., and will fill the reservoir before going to bed.  A few thing arrived, and were sorted.  I ordered more underwear, thinking I would be throwing most of what I have.  And, while I have tossed a quarter, and will toss more, that is more than enough.  I will keep these in reserve.

Another little bit.

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Dishes were put in the dishwasher, those that would fit.  The bigger pot and frying pan will have to be hand washed.  They are soaking just a bit more.  I think the cast iron is done, well... save for a hot rinse they are getting now.  It will be so good to have dishes done, save for what I used daily.  Those will just be put in a dishpan, and soaked when it is full, and there are enough for a load.  Rinsed off though.

Some say not to rinse off dishes before adding them to the dishwasher.  I concur.  IF you are putting them in, right then, fresh.  If they are going to dry?  No, rinse.

Way more work than anticipated.

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More?  I am only... a third done, on the part I wanted to do, upstairs.  Just one area, where I had set up tables to fold and sort and such the laundry, and the area behind it?  I got one of the tables cleared, a massive pile of laundry, if the rack shelving cleared too, and box drawers put in.  But... yeah.

I picked pieces and bits, tags and paper, off the floor.  Sorted some things, tossed some things outright.  Will look other things over as I sort laundry, through the washing, drying, and folding.  Holes, stretched waste bands, fading, stains or discoloration, anything... out.  I have plenty.  Found a bunch of unopened shirts, tshirts mostly.  But I expected that.  Which is good, I'm burning through tshirts for every reason mentioned.  I can keep some of the better bad ones, for work shirts.  But not all of them.  If they are all bad.

Breakfast was good.

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Fatted coffee is just... one of those things.  I took the mix, added water to the beans, beef, and tomato, making more of a soup.  Adding a bunch of sour cream when ready.  Fat, I think, will... moderate the beans/carbs.  To some degree, fat is your very seriously good friend when wanting a few carbs.  And higher protein.  It's more a ratio than raw numbers.  You want higher fat than anything, then maybe twenty percent protein.  If adding carbs, lower the protein and raise the fats.  Works for me.

I might be dying, but... I should have been dead thirty five to forty years ago.  I only beat the odds by ignoring the doctors' advise on nutrition.  And, eventually cigarettes.  Before they were against those, they were for them.  Never forget.  Only when it became political, and they thought they could get tons of money from the government, by electing leftists, did they attack tobacco for being capitalist.  Not for being unhealthy.  They want you sick, and some... many of us... dead.  They don't care about your health.  Don't even go there, after the vaxxes, any of them.  Or the lethal "treatments" for "covid".

Back up.

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I hit the dishes first thing.  I'll put some in the dishwasher, though there aren't enough to do a load.  Brushed my teeth.  Thought about feeding Sassy, but it's too early.  Or is it?  She has lost some weight, more active I think.  So, I don't mind feeding her.  Just... don't want to start overfeeding her.

What else today, tonight?  Not a lot.  I must admit, I need a bit of a down time.  But if I can continue to work, I will.  Clearing the kitchen table would be good.  Cleaning the countertops and kitchen sinks would be good.  Gathering all the empty boxes, wherever.  Mostly just upstairs, some in the living room?  No, those are full... need to set up storage areas though.  For the extra tp, mattresses, and such.  Tearing down boxes.  And, maybe, just maybe, beginning in on ironing some of my dress short and long sleeve more casual, or dress casual, shirts.  The good ones are dry cleaned.  The standards, tshirts and daily drivers, don't get, or need, that attention.  Sheets and pillow cases?  I... don't think so.  I'd love that, but won't put in the time on that.

The last of it.

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Phone calls.  One thing may have been done, two things are still unresolved.  The thing that was done still requires setting a date.  Cardiology, perhaps.  Renal went to message.  Not sure when the appointment even is.  Or whether they will reset it for sooner.

Laundry was folded and put up.  Just bedding and a towel.  Dishes were set to soak, added a few from the consumption of the meal.  Water reservoir was refilled.  So that is all ready.  A few other things, here and there.

Down to the last things.

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I finished the dishes, in the machine.  I thought I had emptied it, but there were a few lids in there.  Needed one of them, for the container to store the food in.  I haven't messed with the cast.  And won't anymore today, or... this morning.  I did store the food.  And will take that pot in, to be soaked and washed when I wake.

I found a bottle, that was titled professional.  Dubious, still, I gave it a try.  Actually it is quite good.  I could, with a twist of the cap, get from a solid hard stream down to the mistiests of mists.  Perfect.  I cleaned it out, then filled it with r.o. water.  Then had to run the r.o. system.  Which reminds me, I need to refill the reservoir.  Can do.

Pretty good.

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What all did I do, now?  I gave the cast iron pots and pans a first wash.  Bleh.  That was nasty water.  Not down the drain, directly, into the toilet.  Scrubbed them out, a bit.  But didn't want to mess too much, with it still being that... gnarly.  Even so, a good start on those.  It'll... take a while.

The first load of whites was pulled, sorted, folded, and the sheets put away.  Oh, right, there were some white t's.  I need to get those hung up.  I don't worry about some stains, on undershirts.  At least not where I usually get them, on the belly.  But many of the other shirts, as I go through things, are being checked.  If they have the bear-man food stains, into the garbage they go.

Very good.

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The laundry that was drying has been pulled and folded or hung, two loads I think?  Another is in the dryer, and a final one is in the wash.  Wow.  That's a lot of work, just in laundry lately.

I also went hunting for the ironing board, iron, and spritzer.  Not spritzer.  Looked everywhere.  Nope.  Will have to see if I have some better sprayers.  I am sure I do.  I use cheap ones for my liquid soap, for the shower and washing hands at the sink.  But those... don't work well.  Too sloppy for what I want and need.  Demand better.  Still, I have the iron, board, and an iron tray down and... just need to find an outlet.  Should be several, I just... didn't look, yet.

More.

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Figuring out what to do, and how, took a bit.  Without being sure, I just got to it.  All the clothes freshly washed were hung up.  A few things that perplexed me were managed.  And I have an idea for even more.  Just... a place for underwear.  Seems like an easy solution.  Unless you don't have what you might want, or have it readily available?  Right.

As well, I got the bedding off, down, and in.  Save one piece that needed soaking.  Bloody noses, rare these days but they still happen.  Hoping to get that spot out.  The rest of the ready whites are washing.  One more load for after that.  Some new, some used.  I did take fresh sheets and mattress cover up, got those on, then made the bed.  The mattress cover is a bear to get on, but they work very well.  I only changed that, because it was that which had the blood drops.  Meh.  Usually will only change that monthly?  Then there is a bottom sheet and a top sheet.

Well... working.

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Slightly stuck.  Trying to figure out how to store, sort, some things, is difficult.  So... I took a mild break to review possibilities.  I chose methods, and am going that way.  I have two loads to hang, one still drying?  I think.  So, actually three loads nearing ready.  Had to stop and think on how to manage things.  I haven't started whites, because I was thinking about what I wanted to wash.

Bedding or another big white towel.  I decided on bedding. then got distracted with how to manage some of the items I am unsure about.  Ah, but too, I have figured out a temporary method until the way I am going with arrives.  There are... so many ways to sort and store things these days!  But, yes.  As well, I ordered more hangers.

Plans.

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A social event.  Planning to help.  Had things ready.  Clothes clean, laid out.  Several sleep periods through the night.  Alarm clock set, it has two times so set for noon and thirteen hundred.  Plenty of time.  After waking from a first long sleep at midnight or so, I went back down at five.

I just woke.  Hadn't heard the alarms, so I thought I was in like flint.  I hopped out, with the intention of a shower first thing, well... trimming the whiskers.  Shaving after?  Maybe.  Then to get dressed and be out.  As I was hurry and scurrying, I noticed the time.  That... can't be the time.  Probably just... electricity failed and... it does that.  And the clock was off.  By a lot.

Well, no more.

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I've been slowly falling back to sleep, sitting here.  Watching videos on point and shoot cameras.  They are trying to sell the $600 and up type.  That's... not what I am looking for.  I bought a relatively inexpensive one.  Hoping it will do.  Who knows.  Will find out shortly.  The big cameras are far too complex, fiddly, and just a mess to work with.

I don't want to have the camera skills of a professional, the ability to parkour into range, or for the right shot, and the electronic and programming skills to run editing and all the side devices that goes with "better" cameras.  Will see.  Probably won't work, but want to try to document some of what I am doing.

Ouch.

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I have to find some large, long, gloves.  Rubber, this, that, the other.  From washing things, and my hands after touching things that were dusty, grimy, or else, all day while doing any number of odd jobs, dishes, laundry, and else, my hands are falling apart.  While washing my hands just now, I noticed blood on the faucet knob.

So, I went looking.  A stealth blood nose?  No.  Locating the, probable, culprit was difficult.  Minor tears in the skin, here, there... everywhere!  My hands hurt, when I took a shower earlier.  Now I know why.  I still don't know which tear left the blood on the knob.  It could have been one of a score.  If it seems to have stopped quickly.  Strange.

Up, for a bit?

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I didn't get to another thing?  Hmm, well, maybe I put the laundry in the dryer away?  Or had I finished that earlier.  I just can't remember.  I didn't, however, put the laundry from the wash into the dryer.  But it's still fresh enough that a redo isn't necessary.  So, first thing, after giving Sassy food, that was put in.  I won't start more laundry though.  Other things to do, and things coming up.

I also unloaded the dishwasher.  Wow, the kitchen is slowly smoothing out.  After, I started coffee.  I won't reset the dishes from earlier to their final soapy soak.  I need to shower later.  I'm not sure I could work through more dishes before showering.  So... I'll just leave that open.

I made it to town.

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To the doctor's office.  A bit of business there.  Kidneys are too bad, he won't give me temp scripts.  Says to go see the renal doctor.  It was too late to call today.  I did some banking, too, while in.  And had a meal.  I needed food.

A visit to a friend.  Some talk, and plans.  All good.  I do have to get some thing arranged.  Just in case.

Slowing.

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Finished filling the ice buckets, then turned off that thing.  I can't complain, really.  It put out, say, four to six pound of ice, through the night.  Not bad.  Then got in to take a shower, after setting up both the dishes and laundry for their next run.

Had to wait until after the shower, and I think I'll only run dishes, or laundry, at once.  The machines get confused, when competing for resources.  The dishes have been started first.

Nearing ten?

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Well, I did get the first load of laundry finished, hung and all.  The pair of pants in there were folded and put in an airtight bag.  I found a next load.  Started the other in the dryer, and went ahead and started the new load.  Some of it, the synthetics.  I'll hit the cottons next, darks.  Then whites if I can find a bit more... or the blankets I had been using.  Those will go into airtight bags too.  A few may be tossed.  Not two of them.  Synthetic, but... important, to me.

I did scrub on the dishes a bit.  But they need to go back in.  Which is okay.  Well, some of them.  Some might well be ready for the dishwasher, giving me one final run of dishes today.  Though I want to get a shower in, before putting the dishes needing more work back in for their next soak.  Wow... just in dishes, I... did... what, three loads so far?  Two for certain.  This will be the third or fourth load.  Third load of laundry going.

Getting there.

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The laundry, first load still, has just been set to a final spin.  Thirty minutes?  Will find out.  So, obviously, the second load is going nowhere until then.

The dishes were finished.  So, I pulled them and put them all away.  And started loading for a next load.  Don't have enough quite yet.  Still, two loads through, and up.  Not bad.

Still going.

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I reset the dishes I want to hand wash, and some others that if I can improve enough I'll put into the dishwasher as a final load sometime yet tonight.  I put another load of laundry in to wash, while the first load dries.  As well, I am working on another pot, that I burned food in.  Beans, I think, a long time ago.  I've been softening it up every once in a while.  I did another pan I burned beans in, though just earlier tonight, with the brat.  Some of the beans were good, anyway.

As well, I had a few jackets, which have been washed and were airdrying (for... a while).  I nose checked those.  Good.  Can go stale, especially in my home.  Working on that.  But good, so I hung them on the better covered rack.  Bits and pieces of other things.  Dishes are... taking their time.  The ice machine ran out of water, so I filled it and it's still going?  I should check.  Two loads of ice into the first ice bucket.  Could take another load, load and a half?  Will see.

I thought I was just about done.

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Wasn't seen room to do more.  I hadn't become exhausted.  I just felt like I had finished, gotten hung where I was.  Still, I hoped to put the things back together on the freezertop.

I did that.  Added a hotplate while at it.  I have it around for odds and ends, just never did put it up, to use.  I had to clean it off first, but now I have a nice little burner, off to the side.  Electric.  Glass flattop type.  It's... good to have something extra, I think.  For... reasons.

I just wanted to get the ice cubes going?

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I have an ice machine.  Recently acquired.  I did use it for a bit.  Which worked, but I was having to keep the ice in the machine.  The ice melted, and would have to be reformed into ice, again, and again.  I decided to order ice buckets, to put the ice in, and then into the freezer.  

By the time that arrived, and some scoops, I started having troubles with the r.o. machine.  I don't want to use tap water in the machine.  So, I... tried to sort that out.  My eyes aren't the best.  Focus, small details, things.  Got the machine half working, but... then it started leaking.  Had help getting that fixed.  Then?

Attempting change.

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I was able to be awake until noon.  Then woke around 17:30?  Give or take a quarter of an hour.  Had to push, but got it, or nearly.  Sleep was good.  It hasn't been the best, lately.  Trying to stay up later, push through to day again, and even though I was failing, the effort was causing a strain on me.

I put the dishes in the machine last night, the last, second, load.  I was sure I turned it on.  But, this morning, the machine was open and the thing hadn't run.  Very strange.  I set it to go as soon as I noticed.

Not a bad day.

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I am going to check the dishes.  Then putting in a new load.  I won't bother with the wash quite yet, today, either.  Tomorrow.  I have a place for the clean clothes.  And a second duvet, this one much lighter... for summer use, in theory.  All cotton, down filled, as well.  Just a lighter dose, if that really matters?  Will find out.  Or... was that the cotton bed spread and some clothes.  I'll... figure it out.

I'll feed Sassy, too, before going on up.  It was 27, the coolest I saw it, through the night.  Sometimes I check through the night, sometimes I don't.

Not everything.

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Won't get to everything.  The dryer was set for a final spin.  What of the dishes I could fit in the dishwasher were put in.  Might have to hand redo some?  Will have to see about that.  The cookie sheets are pretty big, and were pretty rough.  If nothing else, it'll give it a better go than it's had, and extra.  If I am awake when it finishes, I'll put what else will go in for another run.

As well, I put two of the clothing racks together.  The first one took just a bit, to figure out.  The second one took seeming seconds.  I am supposed to have another around, but it may have been stolen.  Not seeing it anywhere.  And it's not like a cellphone.  The box is as tall as I am, a foot and a bit wide, and four inches thick.  Still, maybe it is somewhere, yet.  Not terribly worried exactly yet, either way.  The room I have for those is taken with the two up.  Still... I want to find the other.

Just so off.

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A bit confused.  Weary but not sleepy.  Weak, but not without some strength... simply no endurance.  Trying to figure a few things out.  Not happening.

Feeding Sassy.  A few fatted coffees.  Boiled eggs earlier.  Then boiled eggs and pickled pork hocks a bit later.  Oh, while eating the eggs and pork hocks, I accidently salted the pickled pork hocks.  I thought that would make them taste terrible.  It reduced the acidity of the meat, obviously (salts are bases... right?).  But, what it also did was made the meat slightly more solid.  It helped with texture.  Just... a very light salting, mind you.  What missed the egg I was eating, at a moment.  I'll experiment with that further.  Because I liked what that did.