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Im riding a rollercoaster today and I didn’t even have to stand in a line. I woke up discombobulated by the accursed time change. I know we get an extra hour of sleep but my body doesn’t want it and I was staring down the barrel of a five and a half hour road trip. So I awoke in a panic winding the time in the wrong direction mentally forgetting the fact that both my phone and watch update on their own to whatever time nonsense I find myself in. It was 7:00am which I thought meant it was 8 and I needed to hit the road. Foggy is a good way to describe my overall mental state.
I was not necessarily hung over despite five hours at a bar watching the Cyclone loss and hanging out with friends. I was just tired. These quick in and out trips wear at me especially when I stack them at an every other week pace. Before leaving Illinois I stopped for some carbonated poison but that caffein didn’t seem adequate so I bumped it up with a five hour extra strength. Holy Hell an hour in I was trucking down the road with my eyes bugging out of my head like Marty Feldman. Shit, that’s a really old reference. Please hold while I steal a stock photo of the comedic actor…
That is what the dude looked like. I purposely picked a photograph before photoshop was invented. That motherfucker turned lemons into lemonade. anyway…
I made it home without incident save a visiting headache when the sun refused to leave my rearview. Other than that I am wandering around going through my normal post trip routine. Unpack, laundry, shower, get ready for the week. This writing is work/thought procrastination and I also noticed that I owe a bunch of text messages. I assumed that the number of unread was all from a single huge thread that gets out of hand on the weekends but there is a smattering of real stuff in there… if you are one of the unanswered, apologies.
*also, I was laughing because at the bar last night I inadvertently loved an image from a friend who does not imoji and he reminded me of that fact. In my defense I truly love the image as well as the caption. He is currently potty training one of his children and the bright young man brought some reading material with him…
The caption read “Apparently the iPad lost power.” That’s funny and if I were ever going to try and sell those stupid books it is also the perfect marketing picture.
I am staring down the barrel of a weird week and I can’t telegraph this punch in a public forum even if it is one read by a measly 20 people. More details to follow but these next three days are going to be interesting to say the least. Time to sack up and get planning.