Love the Jews, Sabotaging my sleep

So I forgot to mention the other day when I got home this baggie was laying on the shelf of my mailbox that is intended for newspapers.  I found out that everyone in my neighborhood had the same thing stuck on/in their box.

Inside the baggie were a number of religious pamphlets.  I found the one titled “Love the Jewish People” most intriguing.  I flipped through it briefly.  The message was basically that history has shown that anyone that has gone against the Jews winds up “cursed”, so don’t go against the Jews.

I was confused because the other pamphlets seemed to be more about conventional Christianity.   I always thought that many Christians have a mild disdain for what Jewish people believe, mixing in a “Love Jewish people or be cursed” handout was a head scratcher.

Whatever the intent, I can only hope our area has not become a new focal point for some religious organization trying to spread the word.  People should be free to believe whatever they want to believe, just please don’t tell me I have to believe it as well.

Last night after work I wasn’t feeling great.  First I tried a max push up attempt, hoping to possibly hit 80 reps, instead I quit at 55.  Within minutes of my failed attempt I started feeling shitty.  My right ear was hurting a little, my eyes felt red, sore and tired and my state of mind was poor.  I thought it would make good sense to try to get my ass to bed early.  My sleep amounts recently have felt insufficient.

So instead of doing the smart thing, I sabotaged it.   After cleaning Tuki’s cage and starting two loads of laundry I sat down to eat dinner while watching my latest Netflix dvd, Bridesmaids.  Yes I am one of the few people that never saw the movie yet.  It lived up to it’s billing as a female Hangover, it was very funny and a solid A comedy, although you already knew that.

During the movie I found myself fighting the urge to treat my bad state of mind with sugar.  Visions of slamming Pop Tarts were dancing through my head even though I had no physical hunger to warrant it.  I was happy I didn’t give in to the craving, it subsided after 15 minutes or so.

So the movie finished up a little after 9, if I was going to load up on shut eye I should have headed straight back to take my shower, read a magazine and fall asleep.  Well I didn’t do it.

Instead I get the idea in my head that I want to do some more online investigation into a tire solution for the Tacoma.  First I loaded Craigslist to see if anyone else had pulled their factory Tacoma wheels/tires and were trying to dump them.   When that turned up nothing new I went back to browsing conventional sources.  I found a few tires that would work but unfortunately the 255 70/R15 size that is on the truck are not common, thus not stocked by anyone. So in order for me to get this done I am going to have to order the tires, wait and then schedule an install later.

I am already having a hard time justifying spending in excess of $600 for tires. I don’t want to pay an additional inconvenience price as well.  I want to go to a local tire store, pay $600 or less and walk out with a new set of tires that will last me 5 years an hour or so later.  It doesn’t sound like that is too much to ask but it appears to be an impossible request.

So after I wasted time doing that when I should have been sleeping I followed up wasting more time looking at dishwashers.  You may wonder why I would be looking at dishwashers?  I have not mentioned there being anything wrong with my dishwasher.  You would be correct.

My dishwasher is 100% fine yet for some reason I have become interested in replacing it with a more high tech unit.  I love my LG washer and dryer, most notably for the tech built into them.  I love the LED’s, buttons and sounds they make, admittedly not the best reason to buy a home appliance but hey, I am a geek, it’s cool.

So anyway I have this idea that having a dishwasher with a similar feature set would be something I would like since a dishwasher is something I interact with even more than the washer/dryer.  My web search revealed a few interesting models but I realized that truck tires need to be addressed before thinking about adding more tech to the kitchen.

So now that I wasted a good half hour on unnecessary web searching I had to still do more necessary things like fold laundry, make my grocery list and feed Tuki.  Even after finally taking a shower, I further retarded my arrival in bed by deciding to shave even though I really didn’t need to.  All of the screwing around meant my actually lights out time didn’t hit until 11, too late to help me tip the scales on my sleep deficit.

I think my random disconnected acts like last night are more than likely tied into the moon once again being full in the sky.  I glanced at the calendar last night when I realized how scattered my head was feeling and confirmed that we are in the sweet spot for moon madness, at least for me which is typically the few days before the moon is at it’s fullest.

So I woke up today not feeling as frazzled and not as tired as I expected.  Hopefully it holds up the rest of the day.

A holiday 3 day weekend is on tap.  Part of it will be timing a race on Memorial Day, the rest of it only has a loose framework.