Just Stop Swimming

I'm a little tired.

Working until 1-2am I can deal with, but combining that with a 5am wake up to go swimming just isn't cool. With my standard 30 minutes wait time before I actually go to sleep, I'm looking at 2.5-3.5 hours of sleep on these nights, and that's to go into an endurance workout. That dog won't hunt, Monsignor.


So what's an insomniac with acheivement issues to do? Well, I can cobble together a swim workout for the next few weeks at my local pool with some 1/2 mile open water swims in the lake, but long term I'll probably join a 24 hour gym with an indoor pool. The morning masters program was good, and I got a good amount of coaching out of it. So, I'm more comfortable training on my own now.

On another note, yesterday was a pretty crap day. One good thing came out of it though, Daughter had a big break through on reading. She memorized her alphabet forever ago, and got the sounds each letter makes shortly thereafter. So, when I read to her, I'll pick one short and simple word out of the book and take her through how to read it letter by letter. Last week she started saying the letters with me, then yesterday I got her to read a few different words on her own. Dog was "Duh, Ahh, Guh ... dog" I picked words that I knew she didn't have memorized, like 'hat' and 'bat' to test her and she got them all. Smart little bugger.

The Evil Overlord List has something to say about that,
"I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father."