Hmm, well?

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Still awake at nearing eight?  Trying to push on around.  If that is possible.  Warmth helps.  Last night, at nearly midnight, it was still 50 outside.  This morning it is only 44 (which is... comparatively to recent temps, quite warm).  It is probably only that cool because it is sprinkling.  Did it rain?  Or has it just been, more just begun, sprinkling?  I would guess the latter.  There just isn't a lot of moisture out there.

I did get out for food.  Had to eat something.  Not the best, but food, sometimes, is food.  And, sometimes, any food would do.  Any... food.

A good morning.

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I can't be certain when I went to bed.  I think it was around 17:00, maybe as much as an half hour past.  It wasn't 18:00, at least a quarter away.  But it might have been just a few minutes after 17:00.  My memory became... problematic.  Though too, and again, after resetting it correctly, it looks like my alarm clock, upstairs, is back on central time.  Though was it that way last night, and whether that was the clock I used as reference, are both questions to which I simply don't know the answer.

Sleep was good.  I woke at what I thought was a bit after three.  Central time, or eastern time?  It is 02:48, actual time.  I am not sure how long it took me to actually wake, figure out clothing, and shoes, and... I... spent a lot of time waking and getting up and going.  But, no, I think... it was just, probably, all within an half hour.  Gah!

Sleep was good.  Woke several times not remembering quite where I was.  Idaho?  New York City?  Iowa?  On a destroyer, a sub?  I could tell, after a short listen, that it wasn't NYC.  Though, in these days?  Maybe it is a dead city?  Or does it ever die?  Perhaps only in the mausoleums the rich inhabit, and those neighborhoods?  At least until the hood comes for them in bulk.  I am not sure I ever sorted out where I was?  Maybe.  I just don't remember getting to that point.  I think I was asking out loud, in case a woman was around.  Waiting for a possible, sleepy, woman's voice, asking "Hmm?  What's up babe?".

Downstairs and upstairs is all around 70.  I think, oddly, it was warmer near me.  Windows were closed, but a fan on.  Just upstairs, on me.  It was 73 near me.  it is 45 outside.  Not too cool to enjoy, actually.  So I opened the front door just a bit, and have a fan going in the front room, to balance me, the machine, router, and light.  Staying right at 70.

I still have two jackets hung out.  Those are thick hefty material, and layered of it.  More cold fall through colder spring items, which will be put up after washing.  I have my synthetics ready to go out on the line in a bit.  Don't really want to do it in the dark.  Not afraid of the dark, that is... one of my claimed zones.  It's more a matter of not wishing to hang things wrong.  I will be trying to figure out how best to hang things so the seems are right, and they fold well.  I need to see to do this thing correctly.  Maybe when I have developed a best practice, then I can do it in the dark.

Still very pleased with the chicks.  Maybe some will make it, maybe none.  Life isn't in my hands.  Neither is death.  Not fully, or in very many ways.  For life, there must be death, of course.  But, for whom the bell tolls?  That is not within my purview, even when it seems to be.  Even God, in a dream, told me death is not preferred.  A whispered thing.  A thing I took to heart.  I... didn't like the restraint, initially.  Does He know with whom He was speaking?  Yes, and probably better than I know.  So be it.  I have come to... if not understand?  To... cope with, or... accept, perhaps even rationalize.  If He asks it, then so be it, as far as I am able.  Hey!  I thought I was Cain!  :p

I didn't get dishes started.  But I will today.  One thing at a time, as much as I can do, and at it.  I did get laundry not only, I think, all loads possible in and done, most dried, and much of it upstairs to be finally sorted, folded, hung, but towels folded and mostly away, and... a very good run on those.  Took all day, small batches, when and what I could do.  Hanging the coats about busted my balls, but... And the towels, when I hung those.  Ugh.  Still, it's all a start.

The hope is to finish dishes, then begin clearing and cleaning.  I have the counters in half decent shape.  They and the cooktop need a more thorough clearing and cleaning, but are so-so to start.  Then to hit the table, and get to where I can begin sharpening blades, and maybe having my meals, and doing business, out there, on that.  Well, and finishing the bathroom.  

I would like to get the bathroom to absolute spic and span cleanliness, then keep it that way.  I have been keeping the toilet, and sink, really well... once I figured out how to get the sink clean.  The tub is clean, but needs sorting a bit.  Ugh.  One thing at a time, but getting there.  I wonder if if it is plastic, from the base of the plastic tub I use as a wash basin.  Perhaps, with very hot water, it melts a bit onto the porcelain in the cast tub?  Anyway...

Well... that's that, for now.  Milk should be showing up today.  Five gallons, and cream.  Yes, I am going through that much milk, turning it into kefir.  I may have to add one more jug.  I am also practicing to see if the jars do better with the lids tight, or loosened a bit.  

For the vinegar, yes that is still a thing, it works far better to shut and tighten the lids.  If I leave them a little open, white potentially mold begins to settle on top.  As well, I have found that if any fruit begins to come to the surface?  Remove it.  But with a water fill, NOT with a spoon.  Swirl too.  A spoon may be handy if the stuff has gotten to the sides, at the top, and is clinging.  

The last few days, after flushing the mold very well and consistently, twice a day, have been mold free... with the lids cranked down.  Not airtight lids, but... I'm not sure that is wise either.  Anything forming at the top gets dumped, then rinsed, and replaced with fresh water.  It is beginning to do well.

I suspect the water kefir should be changed.  One last dumping of it all?  Or this and next time?  Then on to getting that going for real, and beginning to bottle it in those swing top, old time soda bottles.  A little fruit in with them, as they second ferment on the counter for a day, then into the fridge for a couple of days.  Headspace and a little caution are your friends in these processes.

Well... enough about all that.  Good morning and good day.

Not cooling.

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Last time I checked, an hour or two ago, it was just down to 72!  Way too warm to be of much help.  The wind seemed to be going, but it wasn't bringing anything cool in.  It is 77, here near the computer, 75 pretty much everywhere else.  Though, just now... did I feel something cool, air with a touch of moisture?  Or am I just hoping.

Kefir, and a fatted coffee, with a dose of insulin... 16~20 cc's, iirc... and a few hours, three?  Blood sugar is at 116.  Very, very strange.   I didn't trust it, to not crash, so went slow and light with the dosing.  Glad I did.  That's an 84 point drop, with the food that seems to be causing spikes?  Very strange.  There was one other thing I had some concern about... the vinegars I have brewing.  I had been sampling those.  I stopped doing that a few days ago.  So, yea, no.  That isn't it.

I wonder, if I cap the kefir too tightly in the refrigerator, if that will revert altered sugar back into some sort of sugar again?  I can't thing so.  I believe, all that would do, is create a more carbonated drink.  Especially since it is in the fridge only a few days before use, after having fermented well enough on the counter.  So, no.

The only thing I can imagine is if the kefir is being used, or drained off, and refilled with whole milk.  In the fridge, it wouldn't ferment quickly, and would then contain more lactose... sugar... might as well be.  But I'm not seeing evidence of that, and, yes, I have... tricks and traps to check.  They would have to bring their own milk in.  It... becomes a dubious proposition, at that point.

The other thing is, the medicine.  It comes from China.  There is a reason China is not trusted, and shouldn't be making our medicine.  Though, too, our medical industrial complex is almost as lethal to those it sees as unfit, or tries to be, as the military industrial complex.  Both of which are quite comfortably in bed with China.  Ugh.  Not much I can do about that, save try to work my way off insulin.  But... that hasn't been doing so well.  Something isn't adding up.  I have limits as to figuring it out, sorting it out, and finding a solution.

Oh... on to set up laundry, though a shower and shave first.  Which means bringing the towels in.  OH!  Yea, wind just picked up, majorly!  And it IS cooler.  I best get going.  It might even rain.  Anyway, a few things tonight.  I got a few things yesterday.  I'll do what I can.

I would really like to... get things cleared and cleaned, as much as I can, in case my mother shows up.  It won't be immediately.  But... it... if it happens... will happen quickly.  I think she will be happy with my pantry, but will add some things.  I am hoping she can figure out my keto ingredients though, because I won't allow flour, or sugar, in my foods.  I've worked too hard, even if it doesn't really show.  Not even in my health.  Not. the. point.  It is the only thing that slightly works, and the meds I am finally taking, when I can.

Later.

She asked.

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First, a few warmups.  Just... go with it.

Oh, a visitor?

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Not really my tunes, but what are.  Still, to notice is what it is.

Oh, trash day.

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And I must wake.  I've been up for a couple of hours.  Almost waking at midnight, but pushing for a bit more sleep this time.  Oh but that was nice.  For the most part I have been, or it seems like it, cutting sleep.  To be on the downhill side of flipping my day and nights is a generous gift.  I set the alarm so as to make sure I get trash collected, and out, and recycling for as little as their is.  Oh, and when I finish that, I will re-rinse the dishes that are done.  Yeah...  I realize there are more to do, now, as I have used some in the interim.  Still, what I have done is the bulk.  And, with them out of the way, I will set the remainder to soak and hope to have that done before too long at all.