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Surviving Winter samurai style

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 Basically more keep the body warm and don't worry about the whole space 5:38 hours of sleep. I thought it was longer but I did bound out of bed in time for breakfast before the appearance of CLUTTER SUPPORT. ANother whole cart of recycling and Goodwill contributions OUT THE DOOR. So Exhilarating. Rock and roll

More proxy cat content while I procrastinate about things to help get a new cat

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 Title says it all. 6:06 hours of sleep. All my resistance stretches but slacked off about free weights. Took trash out and watered plants. 5 things a cat notices: Let the cat come to you. Low and steady voice and easy in silence Slow blink and blink back Notice the small things: cats purr when happy but also when sick or there is a sudden change To a cat, predictable is wonderful

Sleep onrainy nights 30,000 years ago

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  5:30 hours of sleep. all day cooking. I did not get to the veggie stew. Sigh.

Sleeping naked in Chukhotka

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 Actual sleep-centered content. Wisdom of people surviving in VERY harsh conditions is somehow grounding in ways that regular chatter is not. In this case, though, I cannot help thinking about how do people pee and poo and what about babies and menstruation. 5:30 hours of sleep. Nice clean mammogram Also I figured out how to tether my phone for WiFi. I want tech genius brownie points for that.

Japanese style tuna melt--for breakfast

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 Watch the whole video because the tips are worth the time. 5:28 hours of sleep I WILL try to go to bed as soon as I solve the Wordle

Rinse the rice. Then soak it

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Add kombu and sake or water used to soak shitake mushrooms For people who are into brown rice instead of white rice, anoter point of soaking the rice for 5 minutes is to get rid of arsenic in the rice bran. Will I try the Japanese method? I dunno but I REALLY like the suggestion in a different video to freeze rice in single serving portions! 5:28 hours of sleep. The exercise of cooking porridge for a whole week. Post election awe along with a sense of miles to go yet, kind of like my ongoing apartment purge. I MUST make more time for exercise routine but I did work in the upper body section and some of my lower body routine. I also gave up and ordered mushroom pizza and salad even though I have plenty of food options. Sigh

Japanese tricks with TOFU

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I don't care if this channel says it is #AI. It has MANY tips that sound reasonable. All the recipes say one does not need any fancy gadget to press tofu. However, I have a thing for gadgets AND I do not have a thing for either who knows what chemicals from paper towels or wet kitchen towels moldering away in the LONG spells between climbs up Mt. LAUNDRY. So anyway, this press then freeze trick sounds VERY useful. Press Then freeze overnight Cook on LOW heat 4:?? hours. TO bed too late for when I needed to get up. But VERY satisfying clutter purge including sending a bunch of slightly used office supplies off to Goodwill. Body is still settling back into equilibrium after all the walking over the weekend. It would be GREAT to be able to keep up the walking. Stay tuned.