ABSENT WITH LEAVE A vacation can be a good thing.
I have taken a few days from these in recent weeks and I like to think they are happening because of my "advancing age level" bringing widely accepted "slow down!" notices - some of them, purposely turned in my direction. I can take a hint. I am not one of those persons who needs to be beaten over the head with a wide board to be reminded o take better care of myself.
I've been told to "get more sleep." Playing it sly, I try to comply. I, immediately find how difficult it can be to shift from a well-established habit of arising at six o'clock each morning to a "more civilized hour". Years of office schedules taught me that I had to get up by six to get my outside "farm" chores done, feed my face, shower, shave and hie myself off on the daily commute.
That travel-time routine served often as a personal "quiet time" - both early morning and, again in a kind of "Thank You, Lord", or ,"Now, what do I try to do next?"
session as the sun seeped into the colorful strip along the western edge of the world.
The advice, now that I think about it, was largely: "Sleep on it!" I usually did. I found that as television programming declined it was far easier to lop an hour or so from one's evening
plans than morning.
And - I must, at least, mention another inroad which has been taken on my way of doing whatever it is I am not, at that moment, doing "correctly." This new-found trait of "going to sleep early" became..."always sleepy"..."sleeping his life away!" ..."can sleep standing up!"..."sleeps too much" was the point of packaging me up for two nights of "sleep studies" at a nearby snore center. I, more or less, flunked. I haven't been invited back and hope that condition might continue.
Meanwhile...back as the keyboard - I will be writing erratically. I still write daily but I do so in long-hand emulating J.K. Rawlings, no doubt. If my keyboard happens to be out of it's usual whack I depend on long-hand writing. It can be said that is is just a matter of typing those scribblings...right? Partly. My handwriting (now that I am said to be aged) has changed somewhat and not for the better, I will concede.
Typing my hand-written copy is not all that difficult. The translation from some form of ancient Urdo street language seems to be somewhat more troubling. A soon as I get my bits and bytes back, I'll fill in the holes.
Okay? Time for a short nap on this end.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@comcast.net 2-13-07 [c470wds]
