An odd 24
It has been an odd 24hrs. I stayed up all night last night, minus about 45 minutes just before dawn. I had promised to drive Laura back into the city first thing in the morning…
It is a long story, but she locked herself out of her apartment. I have a guest bed and I wasn’t about to leave her sitting on the floor with a pint of melting Haagen Dazs. We ended up cooking dinner together at my place, watching Dust to Glory and fiddling around with my guitars. All dreadfully out of tune. She crashed out around midnight, which is when I sat down to work. Around 05:30, I started getting really tired. Alas the alarm brought me back to the land of the living at 06:15. Yup. I slept less than 45 minutes. After short run back into the city, where she recovered her keys from the office, I dropped her off at her place and returned home. I ended up staying up until a bit after 09:00. Sleep was short and lacking when I awoke again around 13:30. A few more tasks and I was back in bed. Only this time I couldn’t sleep. I read, finishing up Breaking the Limit by Karen Larson. It was a pretty good book. I was reminded of the roads I have traveled, from Destruction Bay in the Yukon to crossing Lake St Croix on I-94.
So many miles…
I watched a little TV, then a movie. Sleep wouldn’t come. Finally I got up, took a shower and here I am. Tired and restless. Even a Red Bull has failed to jump start my synaptic nerves. Ugh. Yawn.
Somehow staring at my monitors isn’t exactly doing it for me today. Retreat to bed, sleep for a bit and return later? Sounds like a reasonable plan.
Oh yeah. I almost forgot. It is raining again… There are flood warnings throughout the Willamette Valley. After a couple dry years, we really need the rain. Slow, steady, rain to recharge the aquifer and reinvigorate the trees and fields. The Jackson Bottom Wetland, just south of town, has a higher water level than I have noticed in at least three years and it isn’t even January yet. Cool. If this is the cost of having a rain-free summer, then I will gladly pay today so that I can ride tomorrow.
