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Well, that is, if you only count the more naive and ignorant of the media lot. Those reporters who are sympathetic and more to the rioters in Egypt. Letting young lions out of their cages in a civilized land is, at best, unwise. It should be, in any sane nation or sane people, be considered atrocious. And there the media is, touting the benefits of revolt, knowing darn well the people behind the most focused aspect of the thing are dead set against freedom and have the power to shape most of any new government. What is probably forming is another Iran or former Iraq. Saddling children and grandchildren of the West with yet another type of debt. That at a time where the children of the West are being slaughtered, where for generations we have been living off their blood and that price is about to come due. I no longer worry about muslims actually taking over. There will be nothing to take over. They will be fighting Mexicans, we will be dead by the time they could actually stage something.
I know, feeling cheery and I thought I should share. Oh, and happy Valentines Day:)
Bed time keeps creeping out. I am going to have to do something to keep that from continuing. More sun is shining in, for longer, and at an improved latitude... or is that longitude? Anyway, I think that is part of it. The more sun, the longer I stay awake. Hibernation and the opposite seem to be in my blood. In any case, after going to bed a bit too late to comfortably being up this early, I consciously asked my body to rise early. I thought about it and tried to let my body implement the plan. It did so. At a little before 6:00 my eyes opened. I did lay there for a bit. I had a headache and was not sure I wanted to rise immediately. A bit of time unwinding from sleep and the headache dissipated. Had I simply popped up, like I too often do, I would be nursing the darn thing all day. Then again, as every red and green blooded fellow American knows, just lying there is just asking for it. No, your boss, wife, children, grandchildren, do NOT understand. Painkillers only help just so much, though too. I guess some days you just have to roll the dice no matter what you do. *shake* *rattle* *roll* Seven!
Well, enough of all the joy. Time to get busy doing something. I need to try and get the trash out today too. Bother, but it is needed. Have a great day! Trash, Valentines, despotic media, headaches, the end of Western Civ... what could go wrong? And remember, you read it first here.
I read somewhere that staring at a computer screen (or tv for that matter) late into the night has a similar effect on sleep cycles that longer daylight has. That is, the light interferes with the body's natural production of melatonin which induces sleep.
ReplyDeleteProbably a better thing would be to turn of the computer, grab a book and read in bed for a while with lower light levels.
Not so much. I become just as obsessive of a reader as anything else. That is, when I can focus to read. Vox's book took a few days. It was tough getting started, was planning to use it as a nightly sleep aid. Instead it became something of a sleep stealer. Similarly, when I was reading the bible, I would get stuck for hours in there.
ReplyDeleteMost books are either too stimulating or not worth reading. I even considered reading texts on various topics. Those end up being droolingly slow paced, written for dullards, or too engaging, again, to allow me to just set them aside or too stimulating of certain parts of my brain so that pen and paper were grabbed to check some things.
When you are rewiring, every day, just to stay awake through most of it, it is difficult to anticipate how much energy you need to make it. How much electricity did the guys have on the ship when they made it back from the moon? If they had enough, should they have used more on the way? They could not have known. That was just a few days. I have dealt with this for years, with more variables and no ground control.