18jan24

The new king of the garden watches skeptically as I pour hot water over the chickens’ water trough to melt the inch of ice that formed on it overnight.

DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT is officially locked. That took forever.

Yesterday I did the stupid thing of not taking my supplements for a day, just to see what happened. Sometimes I want a baseline, to measure any perceptible difference. And there is a difference. Vegetable brain by 4pm, broken sleep, REM dropped off, getting out of bed today a force of will. Note to self: do not do that again. I may not achieve much more than batching some meals today.

ON DECK: Technically, I should be fiddling around with the back end of that outline, but I doubt I’ll have the brain for fiddly stuff today. Marking up the call sheet for next week.
INBOX: 75
LISTENING: NIGHT TRACKS, right now. Spent some time fiddling around with Amazon Music last night (see above re: vegetable brain). I have these services, but really don’t do enough with them. Moved Alexa to the front of my phone, under a Smart Stack, to facilitate educational listening.
READING: Finished THE PATIENT last night, which makes four books I’ve finished this month.
LAST WATCHED: I ended up just flopping in front of Bloomberg while reading research material last night.
CONDITION: 7hrs 54mins sleep
OUTSIDE: “Paul Schrader on edibles“

Thought I’d pressed send on this an hour ago. So I’ll add:

250ml coconut based fake cream, half-measure Amaretto, two tsp cacao powder, ten seconds in the blander, instant dessert for tonight, spooned into ramekins and in the fridge.