Saturday, January 22, 2011

"Insomniac With A Laptop .............. Almost As Bad As Drunk Dialing!...."

Good Morning;
Damn I am glad I'm inside right now, 6:30 am. and the temperature has actually warmed up 1 degree, all the way to 12 degrees, with a wind chill of 7 degrees!
Can't sleep...read until about 3:30 am. then dozed off for an hour. Since then the dog and I have just been sitting here in the dark trying to kill each other with silent but deadly bio-chemical warfare......lol.
Good thing the stove does not have constantly lit pilot light.....and that the smoke detector is only set for Carbon Monoxide....and not Methane....lol!
Hell if I could find a way to store this stuff, I could heat the shed!
Sorry, lack of sleep.....and oxygen deprivation.
But seriously, I am grateful to be indoors, especially after seeing all the news reports across the 'net coming in from all over the country about the many deaths due to hypothermia among the homeless.
If you have ever wondered about donating something to an individual or a reputable outreach organization, other than cash or food; consider old sleeping bags or winter coats & new pairs of gloves or watch/ski caps or thermals/long johns, those packets of disposable chemical hand/foot warmers.....all obvious choices of course, but also those inexpensive little AM/FM radios with earbuds or headphones, that can fit in a shirt or coat pocket or some come on lanyards. They can be found for as little as $1.00 at some dollar stores/aisles, or you may have a drawer full of them given away as promotions from radio stations, banks and stores. Not only are they good for entertainment and escape, but also they can give a heads up on approaching inclement weather and Code Blue shelter and "warming (or cooling) station" openings and locations.
Anyway....
it's light outside now and I'm going feed their cats, (so they'll shut the f*ck up!!), to try to grab a few hours sleep before the kids wake up and the heat gets too intense....it's up to 15 degrees...but the wind chill dropped a degree....(?).
Later.........................Dave

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