Gary Larson (Far Side creator) claims he doesn't use drugs, but after he drinks a couple of cups of coffee, "weird things begin to happen." Besides bacon, flour and beans, coffee was right up there on the American pioneers' lists too. I hope they have coffee in heaven 'cause I won't be worth a **** otherwise....
I can usually sleep as long as I want to
Damn. I'm jealous. Ordinarily I work at night and try to sleep during the day but it doesn't seem to matter where I live, the universe wants to wake me up. Phone calls all day long from a newspaper where I'm already a subscriber, my wife's relatives and friends, telemarketers, recorded politicians and wrong numbers (lots of these).
I've even tried living out in the middle of no-*******-where in Oklahoma so I could get some sleep, but zealots still found me trying to sell me a new religion or farmers wanting to know if I'd seen their goats (no). In fact, a nice lady from Nielsen kept coming to our house with a basket of fruit, begging us to become reviewers so she could complete her route (no). I even tried posting a sign on my front door, "Day sleeper -- do not disturb." A couple of days after I did this, my wife left to go shopping and something told me it wouldn't be prudent to go to sleep but I figured what the heck, I've got the sign. I told her before she left, though, that someone would be knocking on our door within 30 minutes after she left. I went to bed and fell asleep, only to wake up to a loud knock on our front door 30 minutes later. A visiting nurse had misread an address, chose to ignore my sign without double-checking and loudly announced that she was there to give me my physical. I was not amused, but my suspicions were confirmed. Yawn ...