Crazy

I kinda feel like I'm going a weird kind of crazy. I have been absolutely unable to sleep more than 5 hours a night for the past 6 nights. No naps later, no substance use, no extra stress.

My room has no light pollution. No noise. My bed is just fine. I exercise. I do not drink caffeine after 2pm. I stop using my phone or computer about a hour before I want to sleep.

And yet every night now I fall asleep at 10pm and wake up at 3am like it is a regular thing to do for a person.

It is not!

I don't know which is worse, waking up every night to a nightmare but getting 8 hours of sleep or trouble free sleep but for only 5 hours???

Money

Wow, I just paid for my personal athlete facebook page to be promoted! Results I hope are good!?!?

Me or ??

Who's got the sweetest disposition?
One guess -- guess who!
Who never never starts an argument?
Who never shows a bit of temperament?
Who's never wrong but always right?
Who'd never dream of starting a fight?
Who gets stuck with all the bad luck?
No one... but ______________________!!

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So I'm back to using my twitter account again. Should you have the extra brain cells and boredom follow @rowdstar and I'll follow you back. Promise. Oh and I promise to post pictures of my lunch, the cat, where I am in the world and some sort of semi whitty rejoinder.

1776 and 1492

I've been to a lot of countries in the world. Generally at the end of my stay while I appreciate what I've seen and experienced I still feel that America is one of the better places to live in the world. Very few of us worry about clean water. The electricity and telephone networks work 24 hours a day. You can get an apartment without being on a waiting list. I've never paid a bribe in the US. My vote gets counted. I can practice a religion without fear. You sure can't say these things about most other places in the world I have been.

Sorry America but where I think you could use some help from you foreign brothers is in how people drive on the highway. Of the first world countries I've driven in the US is by far the worst for people just staying to the left, driving below the limit and not moving over to let someone pass.

Come on US drivers, get it together and stop being left lane bandits!

Trust

I have two more days of background checks to be completed before I know if I get my Trusted Traveler/Global Entry status from DHS. Should I worry? Well....... Things started rough in the interview when I had to explain why my income doesn't match their idea of someone who has traveled as much as I do. I think I overcame that one to the interviewing agent's satisfaction.

Middle of interview was fine. Then we get to the end and final question, "Have you ever been arrested, detained, handcuffed or fingerprinted?" I had to answer yes. Two years ago I was fingerprinted by Harbor Police at the San Diego airport as I had mistakenly left ammunition on my carry on bag and it was detected at screening. Everyone was cool and I boarded the plane on time and just fine.

But it was still an "incident", and the agent said it might prohibit my enrollment in the program and I'd lose my $100 application fee. My interview was the 2nd, so I should know by the 12th.............. if DHS trusts me or not.