166th - Sleep

I have a batman window sucker thingy. I got it from Japan.

So, lately, there have been a lot of late nights running into the wee hours of the morning. Which is loads of fun, most of the time, except for one tiny little thing: every one of those late nights is followed with an obscenely early morning. This results in very minimum sleep and this:

photo [above] - A few lessons learned from this. 1. I need to wash my face before taking photos of myself. 2. It's still very uncomfortable to take photos of myself. I don't know how girls do this all the time. 3. I'm tired and hate the sun.

I can't sleep in silence but I also can't sleep listening/watching something boring. So I'm trying something new. Instead of loading a season of a show or an audio book, I load up two or three episodes of a show on repeat or the same chapter of a book. The theory behind this was that although interested, my brain will wander and I'll fall asleep. I have episodes of Frasier memorized. It's not working.

This is fun news. Last week, I tried my hand at gardening. Not mowing the lawn stuff, actual gardening. It involved using a shovel, a hoe, some other stuff to get the bed ready. Then planted tomatoes, cucumbers, chillies and eggplants surrounded by flowers. The choice of seed was not my choice, was my Mother's. Anyway, the point being. Not only does this make it official, I'm an old man, or as Caboose puts it, "gay", it's very enjoyable. I didn't feel inclined to have my iPod on or anything. It's just good solitary work. My mind didn't wander off to some disturbing crevice, I didn't keep looking at my watch. Something very soothing about it.I even broke into a wee bit of a sweat. I don't sweat. So, yeah, I have a new hobby.

I've been planning some other stuff to do in the yard, one of which involves cutting down a big ass tree. I've been telling myself that this is a disaster waiting to happen even though thus far my math seems sound. I can be a really big ass sometimes. We'll see how it goes. I really should take pictures of this.


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