Still Plugging...

I am striving to return to daily posting.  I will do my best. 

I still do not have a LOT of time, but.... I can feel that it is reaching a cusp and may (hopefully) start to decline some.  

Bullets:

• I had horrible nightmares on Saturday night and also on Sunday night.  So, on Sunday and this morning, I had very poor sleep and I awoke exhausted, tired, and grumpy.  Both nights, it was the same person I was having nightmares about... the former "friend" at work who has been so hurtful and mean.  Other problems also occurred in the nightmares as well, all work related things (one somewhat interestingly strange was that I had a student in my A&P Laboratory dancing around, rather inappropriately on one of the lab benches, causing chaos for the other students in the class).  
• I pounded out my miles this morning, trying and hoping to shed the anger, frustration and feelings of hurt I was feeling from the nightmares.  The running tired me out enough that I was not as upset.
• I am hoping my wife will be able to go swimming.... I would love to swim at the end of the day before I go to band.  
• I have been trying to think of memories of my pipes (or even of some of the better Retiree Cigar Meetings) as I fall asleep.  But, I have not actually DONE SO in quite a long time.  I am so exhausted by the time I lay down for bed, I am instantly asleep.  Sometimes I cannot even remember fully getting under the covers..... I fall asleep so instantly.  That does not feel particularly good to be that tired.

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