View From the Bushes

I was talking to one of my friends the other day (the one who took all the GenCon Pictures). He mentioned that of all the things I did the one which impressed him the most was that I was able to post in my blog every day. I'm not sure that this entirely accurate since after all I do take Sunday's off, and I missed all the days I was at GenCon, plus I think I missed the fourth of July, plus lots of people don't want to give me any credit for all the blogs during the Tour de France. Still it's evenings like this when it is actually kind of difficult.

I guess the big problem with posting tonight is that my mind is fixated on 6:50 tommorrow morning. That's the unholy hour when my carpool is going to pick me up. Actually I'm generally up by right about then (yes no matter how tired I am I'm always awake by 6:50 it's a strange disease). However, I doubt that he would let me into his car dressed and smelling like I do then. (I should at least brush my teeth.) In any event I think I whine too much waking up at 6:00 is not that bad. It's not like I'm already sleep deprived. Oh wait I am.

I think it's my kids fault. It's not like the don't sleep, but they sometimes scream. My wife claims that it's night terrors but I think they do it just to be mean. And then there's the "jiggy arm", whenever they get into bed with us (which is frequently we live in a scary neighborhood) they always fling out their arms as far as possible, that's when they're not sleeping perpendicular to the normal direction of the bed. As a result I end up sleeping in something of a horseshoe position on the final six inches. But I don't think that has anything to do with me being tired.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross