Sleepy head

I'm not sure what to make of this. The last two nights I have slept over 10 hours each night. I never do that.

I've been working hard lately, working out hard, and eating less, so I suppose my body is adjusting to what I have been throwing at it. I also think I may have just succeeded in fighting off something, since I felt a little queasy Saturday morning and was a little congested Saturday evening. So I guess it is good that I got whatever sleep I needed.

But it isn't something I easily accept, the need to get extra sleep.

At plenty of times in the past I would probably have insisted on staying up, or getting back up, and drinking some coffee to mask whatever my body was trying to tell me, along with some high-carb food to give me some temporary semblance of energy.

The effect of that would have been to run my body a little further into the ground, get sick, and gain weight.

But it is not always easy to opt for the better way even when you know it is the better way.

A while ago I participated in a sleep study and they concluded that it was healthiest for me to sleep from 11:15 pm to 7:15 am each night. I'll try to get back into that routine, and I will keep doing the other things I have been doing.

Monday's Soundtrack

The Beatles - "I'm So Tired"



I first posted this with a video that had a lot of John, but you know, we've all seen a lot of John. I'm replacing it with this video acted and directed by Monica Guerra. She did a nice job on it, and it stays, er, close to the story line.

Sunday's Soundtrack

Phil Ochs was a singer of truth. There is no exaggeration or embellishment either in the lyrics of "Cops of the World" or in these accompanying images. Nothing this country has done in Iraq has had anything to do with 9.11.01, except in the sense that it has heightened the worldwide contempt for this country that , in part, inspired 9.11.01.



The myths of our foreign policy, created so cynically, inspire twisted pinhead warriors to the barbarism evident in the video. It all will come back around, of course. It always does, and so the ultimate cost is felt by tens of thousands of other decent people, in and out of uniform.



Jimmy Buffett - "He Went to Paris"



Some of it's magic
Some of it's tragic
But I had a good life
All the way