I remembered...

It came to me yesterday what I knew was going to be a good blog... and that leads to another blog idea. Things that seem like great ideas at 3 in the morning might not seem like as great an idea at 10 or 11 in the morning! I previously told you that I couldn't fall back asleep Friday night and as I laid there I came up with the best idea. Well, I realized it was not my 3:00 AM wake up call wherein I had this great idea but rather my 4:18 wake up. How do I know?

Well, I have a built in alarm clock in my brain. For years I thought I had a built in alarm clock as I would often wake up on weekends or vacations about the time I normally wake up for work. The last 5+ years I have been pretty regular with a 4:20 wake up. My internal alarm clock wakes me about that same time most every day. Lately however it's been a true alarm clock. I mean I hear alarm clock beeping type noises in my sleep.... The Saturday morning at 4:18 alarm clock was not the usual beeping but rather one of my kids talking to me as they do when they come in to our room in the middle of the night. The exact words weren't clear but I JUMPED off that people expecting to see one of the kids standing there next to me but guess what? No kid in the room. It was just my internal alarm clock telling me it was time to get up.

So this alarm clock "goes off" most mornings. I usually can fall back asleep on weekends or vacation which is lucky. However, this beeping sound I hear is really strange. It reminds me a lot of one of my favorite characters, Jack Reacher, in the books by Lee Child. Jack is an ex-military police who travels along the country kicking people's asses. He is about my age and that's where the similarities end. He's like 6'5" and defeats multiple attackers on any given time. You know it's about to be a good read when Reacher walks into a bar in some small town in middle America... because somebody is about to get their ass kicked and it won't be Reacher! Well, Reacher often talks about his internal alarm clock waking him up. For example, he will go to bed at 3 AM and need to wake up at 6 to go kick some ass... no problem he sets his internal alarm clock.

I guess the good news is I am picking up Jack Reacher traits. Maybe the next time I walk into a bar I should start a brawl just to see if I can whup some ass like he does!? Really, the guy makes it sound pretty easy. You block the guy coming from the side with a block of the hand, then you grab one of the other TWO guys attacking you and break both their necks simultaneously... while at the same time winking at the single young lady sitting at the bar. The dude is amazing!

Oh ya, like I said this seemed like a great idea for a blog at 4:18 in the morning which leads to the conclusion that you always should double check your early morning thoughts before taking action.

peace out.