Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Been a good month for wierd aerial phenomenon. First the aurora, and now sun halos.

Friday I noticed the left and right sun dogs, which is seen a few times up here. But I've never seen one above the sun, which is fairly rare.

So, I need to take a friend to the hospital for surgery tomorrow and need to be up by 8AM. When I need to be up early, I slowly try to get o sleep earlier and earlier over a few days. Last night, I went to sleep at 1AM to be up at 9AM today.

The most dangerous thing about my phone is that it will mute an alarm if it goes off for more than 10 minutes. And the most dangerous thing about my body is it will trick me into not waking up. In this case, making the alarm part of my dream, and DREAMING that I woke up.

It even gave me a little thunderstorm to wake up to. I should have realized it was a dream when I was in my parents house in Texa and the storm was very thundery. My alarm went off, I kept sleeping, and I woke up at my usual time. Now I'm going to have to NyQuil myself to sleep tonight to get up in time to take my friend to the hospital.

While I volunteered for this trip and don't blame my friend for the sleep issues, it really brings home how much I wish the business world understood how hard it is for me to be a day person, much less a morning person. Jobs are scarse on the hours my body wants to keep, I've done everything I could for 40 years to keep "normal" hours, I've gotten addicted to caffiene to just function close to normal hours, and health problems from lack of sleep beacuse of it.

Seriously considering going back to bed, and sleeping as long as I can and just staying up all night long to get them there early.

Years ago, I saw the first part of this video, and it was adorable. I saw the second a few years later. I didn't realize there was more, and its message. And it's beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3quYcNI3dOs

Everytime I see the blur on a Sensitive Content image, all I see is a closeup of the cover to Whitley Streiber's "Communion."

I remember this episode of Star Trek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_O3et-YH1c