Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 14, 2024

Arlo must be retired. I am and I frequently don’t know offhand what day of the week it is. All I really know is that now Mondays don’t exist and everyday is Saturday.

Lost your space-time continuum matrix?

As Moe Howard would say, “Wake up and go to sleep!”

Curly: “Nyuk, nyuk.”

And Larry, after accidentally removing a nearby person’s wig/toupee with the bow of his cello: “It’s a tarantula!” This was immediately shot by Moe with a policeman’s revolver, then returned, still smoking, to its owner.

And he missed the Olympics.

Poor Arlo, went into heavy sleep instead of nap sleep. Never nap longer than 45 minutes to an hour.

I nap frequently. But never on purpose.

When I was working, my workday started at 5:30 a.m. I would eat lunch at noon and would head to my car in the parking lot just to get out of the building, avoid the phone, and anyone trying to interfere with my lunch break. After turning on the radio and reclining the seat, a nap came pretty easily. Occasionally I would wake up from this nap as Arlo did from his snooze today. Nothing is quite disorienting at times as waking up and finding yourself behind the wheel of a car!

Whenever I nap I wake up in a foul mood.

It’s not the sleep, it’s the way it hit you when you weren’t looking, and the waking up. Sort of like, it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s hitting the ground.

You are obviously not married. A wife’s job is to keep you busy so you do not become sedentary. Have to keep you from becoming bored. lol

I like nap like that…….…..

I hate that feeling waking up from a nap. I’m always groggy and brain fried for 1/2 hour or so after I wake up.

I can o ly be sure about Monday. No work but there is ne er anything on TV that I want to see so it stays on a music channel. Kinda like being in an elevator all day listening to music of the 60s I grew up with played by easy listening Orchestras. I never thought I would say or hear that.

I can only be sure of Mondays. There is nothing I want to watch on TV so it stays on an easy listening channel in the background all day. Kinda like being in an elevator listening to music from the 60s played by Orchestras. Never thought I would hear them that way or e en say that.

I thought that was the purpose of a nap…to fall asleep!

That’s the purpose of a nap.

Nothing quite so disorienting as a short daytime nap…

ain’t that the truth

falling asleep in the daytime does the same to me, like it’s not normal

Somehow weekdays feel better than weekends when you’re retired.

One nice thing about retirement is not having to care about what day it is.

Me too Arlo, I don’t like taking naps.

Don’t retire from something, retire to something. Keep busy. Find something useful to do. Volunteer. Someone else needs to learn what you know.

Been there.

That’s a great nap!

I missed my nap today and now I am paying for it, will be an early night tonight for me.

There was an ad in the student newspaper long ago that said:

Do you find yourself wandering aimlessly on campus, and you don’t know how you got there or what time it is? You may be experiencing Space Time Discontinuities. Go to the campus clinic and tell them you are suffering from STDs. They’ll know what to do.

I’ve slept very deeply on a few occasions and awaked disoriented for a few moments. But never like that from a nap.

Even when I was a baby they had trouble getting me to take a nap. I like to be up and see what is going on! I shared a bedroom with my parents until I was 3 – then for 2 years I slept on a cot in the living room (sort of makes me as an adult wonder how my sister came about) and then we moved to a house in the suburbs and I had my own room (so did they).

Husband will fall asleep when we go to bed (at about 4:30/5 am) and I stay up watching TV for an hour or so. I have the alarm to wake us around 10 am and I keep sleeping while he watches TV for an hour or so.

Neither of us is a morning person and during Covid when it did not matter when we were awake and when we were sleeping we got a lot worse. Right now it is 1:50 am. He is upstairs on his computer and I am in the kitchen on my laptop. Both watching TV at the same time. He will come downstairs around 3 to 4 am and we will have our third meal of the day (late night snack) and then go upstairs to bed. It will take me quite awhile to fall asleep.