Hello Darkness My Old friend in General

I am having my twice a month regularly scheduled bout of insomnia. As long as it stays in its box we are copacetic. When I get a job it might turn into a bit of a hassle. Hey, I’ve got nothing to do today but smile. Da-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da and here I am.

Autumn is doing that full on Autumn thing it does. Against predictions, the colors are vibrant. But the leaf drop is happening fast. The oaks dropped their acorns really early this year, which by lore would indicate an early and hard winter. The theory being that the mother earth and father sky are giving the squirrels a little extra time to pack up for winter. And yet as ridiculous as that sounds it always seems to come true.

I have been to three doctors appointments for my daughter. Nothing wrong, just changing the PCP and getting her set up with counseling and a shrink.

And I wonder how in the fuck I did it on my own for as long as I did. Mireya is essentially non-verbal. And resists everything. You could give her an ice cream sundae and she would throw it on the floor. Then ask for ice cream. If it wasn’t for Elmhurst I am quite sure I would be insane by now.

The air-conditioning units are long pulled and stowed. I sleep with the windows in the bedroom open. The reason I am awake is I woke up sweating. When I came down stairs I found it 80F when the thermostat is set at 68F.

Dad has a theory that since the entire building is on one furnace, some of the zone valves are misswired, meaning my thermostat is controlling a zone in another apartment and vice versa. So someone in one of the other apartments is cold, so they keep turning up the thermostat which in turn roast me, so I turn mine down.

And so on and so forth.

It is getting on to 4am, so I guess I should give getting another few hours of sleep a chance.

Perchance to dream.

Beautiful, serene, regal. There is no way in hell this woman isn’t a Leo.