Early morning activity

I have given up on being upset when I can't sleep. I woke up today at three thirty (that's a.m.). Wide awake. Don't know why. Thought about turning over and going back to sleep, but decided to get up and put some extra water in the coffee maker. I don't have to work until six this morning, so the option of sleep was there. I will justify it this way: if I went back to sleep, I could over sleep my alarm and be late for work. I'll go with that.

Normally if I wake up a few hours early and feel extra tired, I'll curl up on the couch and get in something resembling a nap. I do this because when I wake up really early I have a tendency to toss and turn in bed, and that makes for an angry wife. And no one wants that.

I have gotten some things done while being up. I took a shower. Listened to a podcast (Art of Manliness has started podcasts and they are great). Got my fantasy football (nerd) groove on. Now, come about ten or eleven o'clock this morning I may regret not going back to sleep but I'm good for the morning.

I feel a big fat nap coming my way right around three o'clock this afternoon. That is when I will catch up on the sleep I missed out on this morning.