Chocolate is a vital part of a balanced diet

 5+ hours of sleep, from before 5 until 10..

I am a grownup. I do not know whether watching extended video of the assault on the Capitol is the best sleep hygiene in the world but I guess I am glad I get to grapple better with the full horror and outrage. Plus the can of dry cider probably knocked out at ;east enough of the anxiety effects to counteract lingering wakefulness.

But then there is the NYT crossword puzzle. The Saturday NYT crossword puzzle is actually the hardest puzzle of the week. The Sunday puzzle has more words, but the Saturday puzzle is hardest. I am getting so I can get it done in a little more than an hour. But I don't care about streaks of puzzles solved without help. It is way more efficient for me to use check puzzle a couple times at the beginning, get rid of wrong words that are getting in the way of figuring out the whole network. I have also come to see the point of taking a break when there is some big segment of the puzzle I am getting nowhere on because when I come back I often all of a sudden hit a whole bunch of clues I figure out to fill in the whole network. Maybe there is a metaphor here.

Mid afternoon snack

Last night I took a break to write, solved the puzzle and thought of writing some more. Body said, um, sleep. The words will still be there tomorrow.  Stay tuned.

And chocolate really is a food group, and sometimes for better or worse the glarfier the better. But now my hair is clean. If I want just to eat more mixed nuts and mandarins for supper I can. 

I SHOULD go get exercise but that probably won't happen. At least for now it seems dry enough that i probably will be able to walk the breezeway safely without risk of slipping because of all the crappy drainage issues. 

And I am third in line for an exercycle someone is giving away but I wish they could tell me what weight it is rated for. And if that is the worst problem of my day....

PS I need a new earworm. I am still not entirely happy with my translation of the DDT 2020 song and at this point, 2021 is doing 2020 and 2017 one better in way too many ways.. One of the problem lines is something like "In the kitchen people cook up fireworks on instagram swiping hands to liven up the night."

PPS I have no freaking idea why blogger does not like the HTML it generates itself, but every time I go back to edit a post, I see raw HTML instead of the proper display. So I clikc to put things back into compose mode, Blogger tells me I might lose something and I start compose mode anyway. No reason A reader should have to worry about this but I am too lazy to track down a support contact and I hope the mixed blessing of easy automated review will flag my grip anyway.