The alarm goes off at 4AM. I have to calculate that into my eight hours of sleep. Less than eight, and I am not performing the highwire act in the circus that day. Best keep my feet on the ground and a pillow nearby. If I ge the eight hours depends on me getting back to sleep.
But my brain gets busy some mornings long before my body has recouped and is ready.
This morning my brain is curious if the two hours or so I spent on with tech support yesterday was worth it? Before bed I started having troubles uploading images to this site again. It seems to be an intermittent fault. The question is, is it the software, or the operator? Or is it the hosting platform? The setting I saw for size was at 512 megabytes. The other concerns is file permissions in the directory structure on the back end.
There are other things to occupy my mind, too. Many other things much more important than website operability have my noggin knocking nuggets around.
Next thing up is how to turn some of my firewood gathering into an occupation. Large quantities means I can sell firewood, and smaller quantities means objects made from pieces of firewood. There are tools to be had, and some of them are expensive, but profit potential rises with their acquisition. I still need to collect a full season ahead, too, just to have burning wood that is seasoned. One of those tools thus, is a tractor and grapple to handle a lot of the lifting, as I am not getting any younger. Another is a sawmill to get boards for furniture. On the cheaper end comes a planer for a first rough of board thickness, which I can finish with good hand planes which each cost nearly as much as an electric planer. Anyway, look, if I am going to have so much wood going through this little farm, I should be making the best use of it, right down to getting a chipper to make mulch with.
They say death and taxes are unavoidable. Around here it is death, taxes, disappointment, and winter…
… and lack of sleep.
(Pictures uploaded! But they are still coming up in square rather than at the proper aspect ratio, and require correcting after original posting.)