They say this endless day is my fault like I had a choice. Three hours of closing my eyes becomes two hours to ten of working and waiting for work before I sleep again. The early twilight isn't helping things, I go through 3 or 4 "days" in twenty four hours lately as the world is crawling out of the dark.

Dad is still in the hospital for observation. He went in a day or two ago with a blip on the EKG. This being my dad, the blip was quickly followed by a whole host of other complaints that they needed to check out right NOW so he's in no shape to come home just yet. It's Thursday night, my guessing is that they'll send him home tomorrow because hospitals tend to dump patients before the weekend even if they're not ready to go home.

That's just what they do. It sucks for everyone and it's a complete waste of time when someone just gets sick again and back in the hospital again come Monday morning. Not sure what we can do about it, especially since I'm enjoying the quiet. Not dealing with him for a few days has been a blessing. I know he's pretty much okay, I know he's not dying or anything, but with him away I don't have to do a lot of things and it's nice just to have the time off. With money how it's been and working needing seven days from me, I don't get out, so this is as close to a vacation as I'm going to get for a while. Please keep him until Monday, please, please and a please.

I'm still recovering from last month. Just too much to talk about. I'm really not the same guy I was a month ago. It feels like everything is changing, not sure if that's good or bad, but my expectations for myself have changed and we'll see if it keeps up for the new year. My back was killing me so I've missed my "play 60" resolution a lot this week, but I've been detoxing from chips and corn products, so yeah, we'll see if I can keep this up. I don't have my fast food until September 30, I'm currently breaking from chips, who the #$#@ am I?

Dammit.

Marching on out of here with a reminder that you can follow the exploits of Romeo, my adventure kitten, on my youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/jamesknine175. Things will pick up when I get a better phone next month. My old Palm Pre 1 is finally dying on me so I want to upgrade to something with a better camera (or something that can handle the low-light conditions of my office a bit better). Romeo has been doing action hero stuff lately so it's a sight to see.

And now I'm off for another night of work/sleep/work and seeing if I can cram 3 days into one.

Jim