Leslie (recently hosed by Verisign) wonders if anyone else rises early, hates afternoons, yet is also a night person. Chalk me down as rises early, can't take afternoons, night person only when maniacally obsessed (reading, programming, driving) otherwise it's early to bed.
A Sergeant in our Air Force squadron went to bed around 4pm and woke at midnight, an artifact from a previous assignment. He liked the quiet of post-midnight, brewing a pot of coffee, watching taped TV, reading a book, house chores, and then off to work at seven. Said he burned out two girlfriends with his odd schedule.
I tried this while working in Bangor. Woke around midnight, jog, shower, then work on a pot of coffee and writing. After a month or so my book was cresting four hundred pages without a sign of ever letting up, reaching an end or having a point. Gave them both up to re-enter society. From midnight to sunrise it's easy to believe you are the lone survivor, a cast away from humanity.
It's certainly different than sign-on shift in Radio. Waking up at four or five to put on a morning show you don't feel isolated so much as having a secret. People are waking to your voice from plastic clock radios as you break the news that their car is under a foot of new snow or a government has toppled. Afternoon shifts suck big time. You and your listeners could care less, blood pooled at the stomach leaving the brain to slip into Barry Manilow mode.
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Today's project: get all of these plants into the ground! My first mail-order plants include Heritage and Bristol Raspberries, Coville Blueberries, Nova & York Elderberries, and a lone Melody White Grape vine. I found an online raspberry guide, but the suggestion that we plant them 300 feet away from wild plants is totally impossible.
We also have a kitchen table burdened with sprouted veggy and flower starters, all waiting for this snowy cold weather to go away. It's been rain, snow, rain, snow for over a week now. Lake Zeke, a section of lawn which transforms into a pond during winter melt, is on its fourth manifestation this Spring.
If you miss seeing the update icons for the weblog links in the right navbar I can only say that we are waiting for www.weblogs.com to come back online. They are suffering from some sort of outage.
From Doc Searls comes a pointer to Heavens Above, a satellite and astronomy tracking site.
Loads-o-information on Lebanon, NH: track charts, satellites, planets, stars, space stations, comets, amateur radio sats, and more. Being the old map geek that I am it wasn't long before I found their page of Geographical Distribution of Visitors (to the site, not from other universes).
I'm still rather partial to J-Track 3d.
They are in, but, as these things often do, it took more than the few hours and the project grew in scope. I decided to plant the raspberries along the front stonewall, which lead to a day's worth of rock digging and lugging and then soil preparation. Beautiful weather for it. Actually it's not quite done, today I pick up bark mulch to finish off the areas.