PHOENIX PHIL
AH ambassador
So we get home Tuesday evening after the long flight home. Unpack and reacquaint ourselves with our younger boy. Eat a little Amarula fudge. Yada yada yada......it's 1opm and we're off to bed. Rocks do not sleep this well and I'm up at 6am to get Justin off to school. I'm figuring I am good to go with no jet lag.
Spend Wednesday retrieving mail, other errands etc. Drowsiness hits in the afternoon but no big deal, I trudge on. Football practice for Justin keeps me going. 10pm again and down I go.........but then the first sign of jet lag happens. 1:30am and I wake for some reason and roll over in bed. I can see the glint of faint light off Donna's eyes, she is awake too. We speak just a few words but back to sleep I go. 4:30am, I wake again and just go ahead and get up. This will just mean a long day but I'll be good and tired that night and sleep well. Get Justin to school and off to that wonderful cube of mine otherwise known as my office.
Hundreds of emails to sift thru, online training modules and no less than two grumpy managers to deal with. Man is it ever great to be back home.......
But I'm doing fine until afternoon when once again the drowsiness hits and hits hard. No problem, I'm at work, I can't lie down and take a nap, must trudge on. 4:30 can't come quick enough, but of course it eventually does.
Right, just need to make it to at least 9pm and I'll sleep well. Not a problem. A little AH and then not one but two great sporting events for Thursday evening. I get to watch my alma mater Virginia Tech resume their comeback to football relevancy beat up on the dirtbags from the Juvenile Delinquent School of Miami!! With great skill and timing using the "Previous Channel" button on the remote, I also get to watch the Cubs beat the equally filthy dirtbags aka the Los Angeles Dodgers!! What a great sporting evening and as the Cubs game comes to a most pleasant end, I go to sleep.
And then it happens again, roughly 3 hours later I awake. Nature calls and off to the bathroom I go. I return and glance over at the clock on my wife's nightstand, it's only 12:30am!!!!!! And now I sit here with nothing but images of Kudu, Gemsbok, Eland, other assorted PG and a pissed off lioness dancing through my head. Friday at work is going to really suck.
A combination of jet lag and Post Africa Depression Syndrome, heretofore to be known as PADS, I am suffering greatly from this very early part of Friday. I'm sure some of you will commiserate with my miserable self while others will think "Too bad sucker!" I don't blame you if you fall in the latter category, been there and thought that about others in years I didn't go to Africa.
Spend Wednesday retrieving mail, other errands etc. Drowsiness hits in the afternoon but no big deal, I trudge on. Football practice for Justin keeps me going. 10pm again and down I go.........but then the first sign of jet lag happens. 1:30am and I wake for some reason and roll over in bed. I can see the glint of faint light off Donna's eyes, she is awake too. We speak just a few words but back to sleep I go. 4:30am, I wake again and just go ahead and get up. This will just mean a long day but I'll be good and tired that night and sleep well. Get Justin to school and off to that wonderful cube of mine otherwise known as my office.
Hundreds of emails to sift thru, online training modules and no less than two grumpy managers to deal with. Man is it ever great to be back home.......
But I'm doing fine until afternoon when once again the drowsiness hits and hits hard. No problem, I'm at work, I can't lie down and take a nap, must trudge on. 4:30 can't come quick enough, but of course it eventually does.Right, just need to make it to at least 9pm and I'll sleep well. Not a problem. A little AH and then not one but two great sporting events for Thursday evening. I get to watch my alma mater Virginia Tech resume their comeback to football relevancy beat up on the dirtbags from the Juvenile Delinquent School of Miami!! With great skill and timing using the "Previous Channel" button on the remote, I also get to watch the Cubs beat the equally filthy dirtbags aka the Los Angeles Dodgers!! What a great sporting evening and as the Cubs game comes to a most pleasant end, I go to sleep.
And then it happens again, roughly 3 hours later I awake. Nature calls and off to the bathroom I go. I return and glance over at the clock on my wife's nightstand, it's only 12:30am!!!!!! And now I sit here with nothing but images of Kudu, Gemsbok, Eland, other assorted PG and a pissed off lioness dancing through my head. Friday at work is going to really suck.
A combination of jet lag and Post Africa Depression Syndrome, heretofore to be known as PADS, I am suffering greatly from this very early part of Friday. I'm sure some of you will commiserate with my miserable self while others will think "Too bad sucker!" I don't blame you if you fall in the latter category, been there and thought that about others in years I didn't go to Africa.
