Thursday is a 4:30am alarm day.

Oh man, that shit ain't right.

I have no idea how I would deal with less sleep. This week I have been tired non stop and I am getting 8 hours a night. I might have do low grade sick, or more likely low grade depression.

I have a problem going to sleep at a good time (before midnight) when Bob's not home, like this week. I really think I need 8 hours these days. Nowadays, mostly working at home (and working with a lot of west coast folks) is a blessing/curse. I set my alarm to get up at, like, 7 so I can get stuff done, get on with work early. But, because I don't have to go anywhere to be at the office, I end up hitting snooze a ton and getting a stupid interuppty hour of sleep at the end. You think I would have learned how to sleep right at my age!

In totally unrelated news, the oldest living major league baseball player died yesterday and now my friend's grandfather holds that title. He's 99 and it sounds like, to some extent, he's been holding on just so he could be The Oldest. Who can blame him? It's pretty cool!

I had a terrible home owning experience (bought high, sold low) and I like the fact that not owning a home gives a certain freedom to up and go live anywhere. We've had this apartment for almost 6 years now, and while we're in it, it feels like home. If it turns out that we can't stay due to the whim of others, it's fine, we'll find another place to make a home.

I do wish we had a garden though. or some sort of yard.

I'm strangely interested in living in a new city, given how anti-change I am. I know that moving will suck, and selling the house will probably suck, no matter how well it goes, but the idea of living somewhere new is kind of neat.

It's something I never really thought I would be kind of excited about, having grown up in one house until I moved to college, and having lived in our previous house here for 10 years.

Buffista English village? Village for sale with manor house! [link]

My retirement plan is to eventually buy a condo in the building I got booted out of in '07, if I can get one of the units with the round tower (preferably the one on the top floor) and my knees & ankles hold out for the stair climbing. There's been a great sense of satisfaction over the years in watching the place remain half-empty and sale prices go down because people looking to buy don't regard a rehab center, an expressway, and slum tenements as ideal neighbors.

Buffista English village? Village for sale with manor house!

I would love that! I've always been fascinated by the relationship between village and manor house and how those communities developed. And some nice rolling farm land, too.

my knees & ankles hold out for the stair climbing

This is a concern of mine. We're between storm systems today, and my joints are shrieking at me.

Yes to English town.