G'Morning

For the last little while, oh maybe a couple of weeks, I’ve been migrating toward a new schedule that puts me pretty squarely in the extreme morning person camp. Being as how I’ve spent most of my life reveling in being a night person, this is rather a dramatic switch and one that I’ve been fighting tooth and nail. Because....well, I don’t know. Nevertheless, as my eyelids grow as heavy as hunks of lead by 9:30, I’ve finally decided to give in to it and see what happens.

What has happened? Well, I am asleep by 10:00 and naturally awake around 4:00. And you know what? I like it. It’s sort of like having the best of both worlds. I get to wake up while most everyone else is asleep and it still feels like the middle of the night. It’s quiet and peaceful. And most of my early morning chores are finished by the time the lad wakes up. I’ve already unloaded the dishwasher from last night, fed Terry and Abbie, made a pot of coffee and a couple of slices of toast. The chicken for tonight’s dinner is out of the freezer and in the fridge so it can thaw all day long before time to cook it. And the fire in the stove has been rekindled and is burning merrily.

I also get to listen to the last couple of hours of the BBC international news reports on my public radio station before domestic programming kicks into gear. I like the beeb. They don’t varnish the news with niceties for our consumption. They still seem to have an attachment to facts. More so than domestic reporting, anyway.

And then there are the special reports like the one I heard this morning. Researchers have now been able to reproduce deja vu in a laboratory. They have determined that deja vu is caused by a misfiring in the brain where the two parts of it that store and process memories briefly get out of sync. One section is briefly suppressed for some reason and we’re left with the impression that something that just happened has happened before. I thought that was fascinating and I learned all about it before 5 in the morning. Someday science will be able to explain everything. I’m still waiting for them to be able to explain ghosts....

So anyway. Good morning.