a parent’s broken record

I think that I could probably write every blog post about sleep. When I wake up in the morning….after the occasional adventure that the night before repeated….all I can think about is sleep. That’s a weird conundrum. I wake up … Continue reading

finish

This is a video of a cabin and a bunch of outbuildings being constructed up in Alaska. That’s the boring way to describe the operation. Here’s the way the person who posted the video described it on YouTube: Building a … Continue reading

we still got the point….no matter how low-def

Do you remember watching movies in school? The AV club (the guys….or, more rarely, girls….who knew how to run the complicated movie projector) would come in and set things up for us….and then with a flick of the light switch, … Continue reading

mo’ money? mo’money?!

OK….check this out. When you borrow a big chunk of money from the bank, they charge you money to borrow the money. That makes sense. What’s in it for them, otherwise? There’s got to be an angle, right? But….here’s the … Continue reading

In My Head

If I’m running, and I haven’t for a while, not since I got busy and it was cold…and there was that morning that it was raining, and I wondered if I was too old….and then some joint somewhere on my … Continue reading

feeding the dragon

If you tear off into the night, with your unmufflered truck roaring in the blackness, Confederate flag stretched out tight behind you in the wind you’re making with your new velocity, and you have Lynyrd Skynyrd blasting out of your cheap … Continue reading

let the rooster crow….

Let the rooster crow….I can’t hear a word he’s saying. Dang oversleep stuff. It’s not the oversleep….it’s the undersleep in the middle of the night that causes the problem. Sparrow has a fever….so Jenny was up a lot in the … Continue reading

the seep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-z_iRDFfnM I guess that sometimes when I think of a “stream of consciousness”, I imagine a rushing river of thought and imagination. It’s powerful….unstoppable…the kind of brain power that carves great canyons out of solid ground….that fills oceans. A person could really float … Continue reading

nocturnal ratio

When I sleep in it really confuses me. I’m never sure if everyone else in the house is going to sleep in correspondingly late. I can’t count on that. So, it’s kind of a wild card as to what is … Continue reading