It's 3:33 AM. I awoke with astart about 20 minutes ago

[WCGreen]

felt like something had left out of my body....

Bad dream...

So here I am, at least for another moment or two,,,,

[MrScorpio]

1. We are now complete

Yeah, Boyeee

[WCGreen]

3. Dude, you are the ultimate calming pressence....

[enigmatic]

2. I hate that

I've done it myself more than once; scared the kitty to death because she's usually sleeping next to Mrs. E and I...

[WCGreen]

4. Mrs. WCGreen never wakes up anymore....

And for that I am grateful

Check out the story I wrote about Cleveland and NAshville...

It's in a post I once ate at a restaurant called....

My Blog thing is almost done. Want to let it sit and go over it one more time....

[enigmatic]

5. Right on...

I'm close to mine, too; let's get the baby rolling..

[WCGreen]

7. I'll EMail you later today....

I think I am going back to bed....

I have to do accounting at teh ungodly hour of 2:00PM....

Sheeshh.......

What a guy will do for a few bucks and some pizza, really good pizza....

[KitchenWitch]

6. Happens to me a lot too

My heart pounding out of my chest.

[WCGreen]

8. Yea, it's almost as if you didn't wake up.....

The damn thing would have burst apart in your chest.....

[KitchenWitch]

9. Yeah

But I do have a prolapsed valve, so it beats hard anyway LOL

[WCGreen]

10. My skips a beat every now and then...

The doc says not to worry...

Of course his probably never skips a beat...

What the hell is a prolapsed valve

[KitchenWitch]

11. Means that it leaks back into the heart

it is mild at this point, but eventually will need to be replaced.

[WCGreen]

12. Ah, and I thought I was the only one falling apart

around here

[KitchenWitch]

13. Naw

I am actually very fortunate to be alive.

[WCGreen]

16. Me too....

Last summer, they weren't expecting to me to leave the hospital...

I fooled those fuckers....

[KitchenWitch]

21. Every day above ground is a good one

I beat some odds back in 1987...the heart valve problem is long term effects from that.

[WCGreen]

23. well, from one surviver to another....

Viva Life.....

[KitchenWitch]

25. Hear hear!

:bounce:

[WCGreen]

27. But since you like the twins.....

Adn I like the tribe.....

Ah, I still would jump up and down with you....

[KitchenWitch]

29. I can overlook your fixation with Chief Wahoo

:D

As long as you are not a Packer fan.

[WCGreen]

31. The Browns....

But I prefer my Buckeyes......

I got Ray nitski's (sp) autograph one summer while on vacation and my brother pissed on it by mistake...

We were young....

[KitchenWitch]

32. Badgers here!

believe it or not!

The Gophers have not had a decent football program for like 35 years, so I root for the Badgers.

[WCGreen]

34. Yea, the golden goher are so golden, kind of rusted....

How does that play with your other Minnesotians...

[KitchenWitch]

35. Most Minnesotans are ambivalent about the Gophers

at least in football. When it comes to basketball, baseball, and wrestling, it is a different story.

That is unless one is a student or alumni of the U of MN.

[WCGreen]

38. I would imagine that.....

I always root for the big ten, unless, of course, that team is playing OSU...

It's funny, the big ten is competative that they are always knocking each other out of the top spot in the ratings...

Like OSU over the Illini last game of the season....

[KitchenWitch]

40. Only team in the Big Ten that I really hate is Michigan

gods I can't stand them. Funny thing. My son's high school uses the Michigan fight song "Hail to the Victors" ewwwww!

[WCGreen]

42. Oh Jesus H Christ....

How could you stand the sound of that infernal racket.....

[KitchenWitch]

43. I just pretend that it is just the HS fight song

[WCGreen]

46. Good old fashion displacement....

I love it...

[enigmatic]

15. I've got sleep apnea

So that's a factor in mine; very weird to wake up gasping for air every so often..

[WCGreen]

18. Get the O2 stuff....

It works and I have been using it for over a year now to get O2 while sleeping, unrelated to apnia..

The only trouble is it some times winds around you and, well you can get the picture on that one...

BTW, spill the beans....

What about this new job?

[enigmatic]

26. Same ole..

It's doing Banquet work and a huge conference center in town; serving, bartending...stuff I've been doing since I was 14 and washing dishes at The Keg And Quarter. It's always been my "career" while I did my music and writing thing; it pays great and I can do it asleep. My resume is pretty full, so it wasn't too hard to get hired..

[WCGreen]

30. Keg and Quarter......

Did you happen to know this guy named Fitz....

He dealt in shall we say, the finer things in life....

I believe he was a bartender.....

[enigmatic]

33. Jesus, I think so..

He was a bartender? And he did a little black market stuff on the side, if you get my drift? My Mom worked w/ him and I did too for a little bit..

[WCGreen]

36. Short guy.......

Always fidgety

He had Fitzpatricks down in the flats for awhile...

[enigmatic]

37. When did he own Fitzpatricks?

After 84? That's when I left town..

[WCGreen]

39. Must have been...

I din't really know him until the early 90's....

Big time Black MArket guy...

He just passed about nine months ago....

I couldn't go the funeral cause I was still laid up....

[enigmatic]

41. That's gotta be him

He was friends w/ Ruben Sturman; Sturman used to have his company Xmas Dinner at The Keg every year...

[WCGreen]

44. Yep.... he had this huge collection of pornography,,,,

I remember he had fallen on a "dry" spell and we went to see him one night, living over on East 72nd and St. Clair....

Well, right before we got there, old Fitz had heard a shot fired and the damn thing whizzed right over his head in his house....

so he goes out side, this is when we pull up, in his wife beater screaming at the top of his lungs, Which one of you mother fuckin N****s shot my house up......

Oh, we, from the safe confines of Westlake, were immediatly looking for trouble....

But, Nothing.......

[enigmatic]

47. yep

that's him; I haven't thought about him in years..

[WCGreen]

48. He was a dude.....

And he rests in peace....

Now I gotta get to bed....

Big day tomorrow.....

[enigmatic]

51. Get some rest, bro

:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Bad dreams are such bad news. my dear WC....

Hope you will be going back to sleep with all these good vibrations to help you get there!

:grouphug:

[WCGreen]

19. Cominghee for a few inthe middle of the night

Calms me down....

Especially when I see you are still here my dear sweet peggy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. I am still here, my sweet WC....

I've just finished up my story and it's in your inbox as we speak...

I look forward to your most intelligent comments!

We will talk sometime Monday...

:pals:

[WCGreen]

28. Yed we will

[leftofthedial]

17. "like something had left out of my body"

did you check to see if you need to change linens?

[WCGreen]

20. Yea, although we have the black sheets on tonight......

Hard to tell

[Wetzelbill]

24. ohhhhhh

those are crazy. I jumped up out of my sleep maybe last May walked out in the front room at about 4 am and was totally disturbed. I thought my brother had died in my dream or something. He was sitting on our futon wondering we I was so fucked up acting. It disturbed me that whole day. Really messed me up.

Bad dreams can be pretty awful.

[WCGreen]

45. The more drugs I pump into my body...

For medicinal purposes only, the worse it gets...

[montana_hazeleyes]

49. Has anyone ever had "brain bang"

It's when you're totally asleep and you wake up to an "explosion" in your head.
And you think for sure you've blown an artery or something but every thing's fine.

It''s happened to me a only a few times over many years and my dr. says they don't know why it happens but just does.

[WCGreen]

50. Kind f like what happened to me tonight....

It just does....

[montana_hazeleyes]

52. Yeah, these kind of things are unexplainable,

and often make it difficult to get back to sleep for a while.
I hope it's comforting to know it happens to most everyone at some time or another. Part of the human condition.

I really don't think scientists really know all that much about sleep and dreaming etc. At least not near as much as they claim.

[ScreamingMeemie]

53. MrG had awfully bad dreams last night too.

I told him he should not have watched Stephen King's "IT". :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

54. You're OK

go back to sleep


I am

[WCGreen]

55. I tried Miss Joan An I simply can't......

Tossing and turning and thinking about all the tihings I shouldn't be thinkig og....

[In_The_Wind]

56. then maybe ... I should stay and talk with you

I had the *suddenly WIDE AWAKE* problem for years.

[WCGreen]

57. It's a drag....

And I gotta be someplace....

This idea od being disabled but still working has it's drawbacks...

[In_The_Wind]

58. I know ... but why at exactly 3:33 ?

that's the odd part ... that's what I couldn't understand!

I started moving anything that could have made any odd noise out of my bedroom trying to find out ... WHY 3:33 ~

[WCGreen]

59. I don't always wake up at 3:33 exactly.....

It is usually arounf 3:10 or so,,,,,,

Then if I ant' get back to slepp.....

I come out to the loungue...

Tobight was wierd, a jumpt start right out of bed at 3:15 or so.....

Wierd,

[In_The_Wind]

60. it was always at 3:33 or 4:44

it made me wonder if there was some form of trauma from my past that I was blocking out

[WCGreen]

61. That Makes sense.......

But I have always been a child of the night, never much cared for the hustle and bustle of daylight hours...

But was we know, the world is day centered and so I am forced to cram my natural instincts down...

[In_The_Wind]

62. I've always enjoyed seeing the dawn AFTER I wake up.

normally ... I fall asleep before midnight ... unless something very interesting keeps me awake

there is so much to see after the Sun comes up ... I watch for the first birds of the new day

[WCGreen]

63. I like to hear the first birds, the ones that know day is

coming but it is still far off enough away that you can't even see a hint on the eastern horizon.....