Saturday

Well, I gotta say, I don’t know where this thing is going. I hope to be posting on a regular basis. Part of the purpose of my starting this blog is to open up topics.
All my other blogs are purpose driven, built for a topic or a class. I want to use this as a sieve for all the random thoughts that swim in my head.
I always wonder why people make the wrong decisions. For example, I love to eat and I eat a lot. I have a lot of experience eating. I know how much I can eat comfortably I can pin point to an exact bit when I will start to be full, right exactly when I will start being bloated. Yet, time after time I will keep eating. My wife will eat a sugary snack and later have a stomach ache. My friend will go out and drink heavily. All these activities have immediate, short term consequences, yet we will still do them. No wonder people won’t save money, stop smoking or pass on the bacon, things that are only helpful years later.
Anyway, I am shooting for 187 pound during wrestling season. Today I had a chicken sandwich and veggies for lunch, rather than a burger and fries. I went to the gym and spent an hour on the treadmill rather than nap. Although the nap might have been a good idea, I feel better when I get enough sleep.
Sleep, I have had on and off insomnia for years, the kind where my mind would not stop running. I would get up and read until 1:30 or 2:00 then go to sleep. In the last two weeks I have had two nights when I never went to sleep. Nope, no sleep at all. One night I blamed on decaf coffee I had with dinner, then it happened again. Weird. I have noticed it occurs more often as I get older. Exercise seems to help, and chamomile tea. Yes, chamomile tea. My doctor said try it and I did, although I got to admit it sounded like woo to me. But it helps.