You know it’s not a good afternoon when you find yourself googling “how to stay awake at your desk.”
I actually have a playlist that I set up years ago for just such afternoons. I believe it was the logical extension of the cassette mix tape that I made in the 80s and called “Late Night Driving Stuff.” Being much older and wiser when I moved into the digital age, my stay-awake-at-the-office playlist is entitled “Good Working Shiznit.” *
Unfortunately, even this vital stand-by isn’t working for me today. My eyes just don’t want to stay open. Probably because I didn’t get to bed until close to 11 last night (was running a trivia game on the other side of town). I never have been a morning person. Don’t know why I thought it’d be a good idea to teach the cats to get me up at 5:30.
Yeah, I do. Because, as obnoxious as they are, they’re still light years ahead of an alarm clock.
12 more spams since my last post . I can see those getting to be annoying. Might be time to just disable comments.
Anyway, life in the great white-hot south continues. It is brutal today. Went outside to go to lunch and thought I’d have a heat stroke before I got to me car. If it were possible, I’d be heading for the mountains tonight, but Jenny and her brother are coming to the house to see the cats tomorrow AND I’ve got jury duty next week, so I have to call my juror decoder-ring number sometime this weekend.
I did text my friend Brett a few days ago and suggest that we give it a shot next weekend. During the wet trip that I mentioned in my last post, I showed him my “RavPower” charger and mentioned that I’d managed to charge my phone with it for a full week before it needed charging. That was all Brett needed to hear. He got home and bought one…and a USB lantern and a USB headlamp and a new USB speaker and on and on and on. I said, “Cool. Let’s hit the woods. And you do realize that charging everything you own from one power source is going to kill the power source in 24 hours, right?”
Smart guy. Really smart. Just dumb sometimes.
I got my RavPower last year in anticipation of making a long hike on the AT sometime this year. Have pretty much decided that that won’t happen, but I think I will go back to Michigan for a week or two in the fall and get some trail miles in. I’ve found myself almost craving the hypnotic solitude of the North Country Trail in Michigan.
How to describe how gorgeous that trail can be….I really can’t do it. I mean, just look at the photo and them imagine that the only sounds you hear are birds, the breeze through the tops of the trees, Lake Superior crashing about 300 yards to the left, and the sound of your boots on grass and/or packed trail. Imagine that the temperature is in the mid-60s. You feel – literally – like this area has looked exactly like this for the last 5,000 years, and you’re walking along game trails that mound builders used. And you see a bear off to the right. And you poop yourself and the bear walks away. And then you walk the 5 miles back to your car in what seems like 5 minutes because it’s just so freaking perfect.
So yeah, I’m thinking about doing that again this year and maybe doing some back-country camping instead of staying at a campground as I did last year. Though, to be honest, it was one of the nicest campgrounds I’ve visited in quite a while. I could live with doing that again, too.
But I should probably do some work first.
* Lots of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, some ABBA, up-tempo BST and Billy Joel. You know. Good working shiznit.