August 26, 2010

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  The Daily News
  

  1    Anyone catch the Giants/Reds game yesterday?
  
  2    Amazing. Losing 10-1, the Gigantes fought back, got ahead 11-10, only to eventually lose it 12-11 in extra. INCREDIBLE game, one of the best ever, even if the Giants lost it in the end.
  
  3    I watched it online for the most part, because it started at 12:45 yesterday. I have a prep period that runs into lunch, so it was pretty easy to goof off and catch the game, but I have no radio or teevee at school.
  
  4    After school, the Giants were down 10-5, so I was able to listen as I did chores. I listened to the game on the radio, and listened as the Giants torched it upfor six runs in the eighth inning.
  
  5    Naturally, the second I got home and finally turned it on teevee, the boys lost a lead in extra innings, eventually losing what has been one of the zaniest series in the history of the ball club. And losing this game?
  
  6   As Duane Kuiper reported, "Torture."
  
  7   Yeah Kuipe, I agree. It coulda been a classic, but it turned out to be a form of torture, which the guys in the box have lovingly called many of the team's games this  year.
  
  8   Still, what an amazing comeback!
  
  9    Gives us all a little hope. Sports sorta does that for me.
  
  10   Ah, vell.
  
  11   Really an amesome game. Not just yesterday's. Baseball in general. It has made a massive comeback itself, so I appreciated yesterday's game.
  
  12   Nice to see, a REAL ball game with strategies and hustle.
  
  13   Truly amazing. It would appear that baseball's back.
  
  14    Moving on, Part the First:  I was able actually to enjoy the recent heat wave all the way until last night at around 6 p.m. Having an air-conditioned classroom helped considerably, but once I got outside to run errands, I wilted pretty quickly. By around 7 p.m., I was done, even though I had eight-billion things to do.
  
  

  

  
  15    All I ate yesterday was a coupla apples, so by 6 p.m. I was a tad hungry. But it was too hot even to consider eating anything. Eventually I microwaved some food, but by 7 p.m. I just conked out from heat exhaustion.
  
  16   I woke up around four times to try to write the DN, but I guess everything had sort of caught up with me, and I kept caving to exhaustion.
  
  17   I WAY wanted to get out in the yard and finish up all the detailing of an entire Summer of Creation, but simply couldn't do it. I wanted to grade some papers, to check some emails, and to do all other sort of normal nonsense.
  
  18   I honestly think that everything I've been through for the past ten years all caught up with me last night. I was that exhausted!
  
  19   Dude, that's a boatload.
  
  20   Torture.
  
  21    It wasn't 'til around midnight that I was finally able to awaken and write today's DN.
  
  22    I wasn't bummed out or anything, just absolutely at the mercy of the heat and all.
  
  23    For instance, I have worked and worked and worked on the yard all summer, and my deadline for finishing is Friday afternoon. TONS left to do, miles to go before I sleep, and yet I simply couldn't move!
  
  24   I guess there are times in life when reality sets in and lets us know when we've reached our limit. I never thought you could put limits on me dude, seriously.
  
  25   I usually push past that, but yesterday trumped all of my usual stubbornness when life tries to stop me.
  
  26   I didn't feel bad, I just knew that last night I was simply done, at least for the night.
  
  27   Whew.
  
  28    I even knew I HAD to hit my DN deadline, but when I tried to do it, I conked out again. I eventually decided to give in to nature, and allow myself some rest.
  
  29    Yeesh.
  
  30    Anyway, I was able to pull myself together at midnight and polish this thing off. My other chores will have to be done in the next two days, but fortunately, the heat will have died down by then.
  
  31    I feel pretty normal as I tack away at today's DN. In fact, at no point was I worried or anything.
  
  32    It was just strange being unable to pull away from the oppression of it all. At no point was I depressed, or anything else. Just unable. Something was telling my body to slow down, to take a day off.
  
  33   AnywayZ ...I guess no harm, no foul.
  
  34   Getting sleepy, as a matter of fact. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
  
  

  

  
  35    I finally conked again, and wound up sleeping like a log last night. A hard day's night, indeed.  I'm WAY refreshed this morning. Remember that the DN is written often at night and polished up in the morning, so if I was sleepy in item 34, I got in a bunch of sleep by item 35. Make sense? Perhaps those "Z" s will refresh your memory...

  
  36    Fortunately, today I just meet my classes at our Theatre, and the safety people are going to talk to them all day. Yeah, it's the second time in two weeks that I'm getting paid to sit around and do nothing, but it is also a necessary sitch.
  
  37    Maybe I'll go up to the booth and pretend to do lights. I don't really need to be schooled five times on school safety.
  
  38    So I guess I'm back, and ready to take on the world once more.
  
  39    I feel strong, alive, and awake once more. 
  
  40    Full strength, uh yup! So bring it.

   

  41    Time to make everything happen. I just needed a day. I'm tanned, rested, and ready! I feel I can take on the WORLD today!
  

  42    ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz...

   

  43    You have a great Thursday everybody.

   

  44    Peace.

  
  
   

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