{"id":21759,"date":"2022-02-27T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=21759"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:44:57","slug":"feb-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/02\/27\/feb-27-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 27 More Sleep or Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walter Reisch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another big snowstorm. Another winters’ day.<\/p>\n

Cats are fed soon watered, fire soon fed. The temperature inside comfortable. A nice change, waking up without shivering.<\/p>\n

No coffee this morning, fire not hot enough, no water downstairs, no propane in the kitchen and a thousand other excuses I made for that not to happen.<\/p>\n

Coffee would happen later,\u00a0 right now too tired to do all the things that were needed to make that happen.<\/p>\n

I had a night of many technicolor action dreams. I woke exhausted and sore.<\/p>\n

Making coffee today:<\/p>\n

Go out to the van, get the propane bottle.<\/p>\n

Fill the kettle with water upstairs<\/p>\n

Connect the propane, light it, put the kettle on.<\/p>\n

Add a filter to the cone, add coffee<\/p>\n

Wait for the water to boil, then pour<\/p>\n

Cats also needed water, snow melt from yesterday needed pouring into stage one filter. Clean stage one water to be hauled and poured into stage two filter upstairs.<\/p>\n

I also needed to get gas from the garage and fill the generator. Get that outside and started.<\/p>\n

Come back down, pour more hot water into the cone filter. After that, one more pour.<\/p>\n

Then open powdered whole milk, add to coffee and log in to my Xbox and make a decision about what to play.<\/p>\n

Soon after that, have a sip of coffee, now cold. All with 400 steps on a sore and tired body.<\/p>\n

Or I could sleep another hour ….<\/p>\n

I was forced to rest in bed by 3 terrorists in catsuits. They crawled in beside me and went to sleep. I watched another episode of The Mentalist, not daring to move.<\/p>\n

An hour later, I snuck past the cats and gathered items for my mission. A coffee cup that needed washing, a thermos I used as a way to carry water to the kettle.<\/p>\n

I made my way down the stairs, into the kitchen, filled the kettle and carried that into the fireroom. I then add more wood and wait.<\/p>\n

A little later water is steaming, filter and coffee at the ready. I finally get to pour.<\/p>\n

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I have one sip, I noticed I was low on wood, wish I had a litter box ready to go. I could extend my need for wood by a few hours.<\/p>\n

I grab a filter, kettle and coffee to head into the kitchen. As I walk by the girl’s litter box I notice it was ready to go into the fire. Except that meant going down to the van for another bag of pellets.<\/p>\n

I open the wood stove and fill it full of consumed wood pellets, don’t ask.<\/p>\n

I headed down to the van, opened the back door of the van and grabbed a bag of wood pellets. Carried that into the girl’s room and filled their litter box.<\/p>\n

Next, the gen, dressed in sandals and bathrobe, I sweep fresh snow away, turn the switches, pull the choke and it all comes to life.<\/p>\n

Back in the kitchen, I open a new bag of powdered whole milk and add some to my coffee.<\/p>\n

I am now in front of my monitor, having a few sips of coffee, 5 hours late.
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This is where I will sit out the snowstorm until I admit I need to hunt for more wood or have to pee or a million other things that always need doing.<\/p>\n

Wood got cut, the snow is still coming down at 8 PM.<\/p>\n