Saturday morning, 5:37 a.m.
I awoke from a dream. A very strange dream, in which I was sitting at a Peoria Chiefs baseball game, and a football team was sitting in front of me. One player, who ran out onto the field, tripped and hurt his ankle. He then vomitted in the row ahead of me. What was in that Burger King I ate last night?
It wasn't the beyond strange dream that woke me up, it was the morning howl of a neighbor's hound dog that startled me from a deep sleep. Normally, it would grind my gears, especially this early on a Saturday. But....my alarm was set for 4:30 a.m. because I had to be at the radio station.
4:30 was actually the awake time alarm. That's the first alarm I set to get me going. Usually, I snooze for another 10-15 minutes. Today, I took one of those, "Oh, I'll just lay here for a few minutes to think about getting up," approaches. Nine times out of ten, the end result is falling back asleep, resulting in tardiness.
So was the case today, though not tardy...in a way. I had originally set my alarm extra early, just to make sure I had time to gather everything, and get to the station around 6:00, instead of the normal 5:30 I come in on rotating Saturday's. Since I was at the station until after 10:00 p.m. on Friday night, I took some time to get things recorded that I normally do on Saturday morning. With that done, I had an extra cushion to give me an extra 20-30 minutes.
I should have known! With the lightning strike, it has made the radio station run like a bottle rocket being launched. You never know where it's gonna go. The bright side is, we get a lot of nicer, new toys (nerdy electronics-speak).
Hurredly, I threw together everything I thought I needed for the rest of the weekend, and took a quick shower. Getting dressed, I threw my arms in the air....with my left hand getting a wake up call from a ceiling fan on high. It kind of hurt, and I have a couple of knicked knuckles as a not-so-friendly reminder of my manic morning.
A couple hours, and I will be back in the gym for some relief.
Coverage today from Galesburg girl's basketball shootout, then down to Bushnell for the Prairie State Shootout in boy's basketball. I am still targeting Sunday night to release the first football and volleyball previews.
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