I childproofed my house but they still get in.

Well that was interesting.
The process was exactly as described in the packet they sent me ahead of the sleep study. The one thing I didn't expect was the part where she said, "If we see you're having apnea episodes we'll come in and put you on a CPAP machine to watch what effect that has."
I fully expected that to happen, but alas, it did not. In fact, I told her last night I wanted it to happen because it would mean a solution to my sleep issues. So when she came into the room this morning I asked, and she said my readings didn't meet the criteria.
"You snore a lot!" (Where have I heard that before?!)
"And we got lots of good information about why you're not sleeping well."
So I'm curious to see what the pulmonologist says when I see him on the 15th. Maybe they'll stick a shop vac up my nose and suck out my adenoids.

There's a brush fire on the SW side of town that is spreading rapidly due to the 30+ mph winds in the valley today. The guy on the news said it started as a farmer's controlled burn.
Something wrong with that description.

OK, I'll say it, out loud and on the internet.
I don't like Vivaldi.
Everything he wrote sounds like Four Seasons, and that piece is harsh, choppy, and overly frenetic.
I sometimes play a game with myself, trying to name the composer of a piece they're playing on the classical music station. I never fail to ID a Vivaldi composition. He needed to go decaf. And get to know instruments outside the string section.

I hope this doesn't violate some copyright law. If it does you can expect these blog posts to end abruptly. But while laying in bed at the sleep study place waiting to get sufficiently drowsy I read this. See what you think.

"Doug Fraser says that the government ought to bail Chrysler out. I don't know about that. Will Chrysler make it? I guess I don't care. GM and Ford were supposed to beat Chrysler, just as Chrysler was supposed to beat GM and Ford. If memory serves, about 1,996 car companies have bitten the dust since the beginning of the automotive era. I don't know how badly those buys, the losers, got skinned up, but maybe it's just as well that those original 2,000 got pared down to four. There are about 10,000 automotive product variations available right now, and that may not be enough, but it's a better choice than you get with panty hose or underarm deodorants."


That's from a book I'm reading that is the collections of columns written by David E. Davis Jr. who ran and wrote for Car & Driver Magazine. The above paragraph is from a really powerful argument against govt. involvement in the auto industry. Davis argues that the chips should be allowed to fall, and that when the govt. and any industry team up the outcome will be bad for both.
Dated - October, 1979.
When I read that it almost blew the wires off my head.
Mr. Davis is now deceased. If he knew then that thirty years later Chrysler would need another bailout...

We hit 86 degrees today but tomorrow will top out at 63. Michigan weather.

Jack's giving me the eye. He lays there with his ears straight up and watching for the smallest indication I might get up to fill his food bowl. I guess I'll be a good dog owner and fill him with joy and enthusiasm. Everybody should be so easy to please, eh?