Was supposed to be a good night

All I wanted to do was sleep. Abby(2) fell asleep in her own bed for the first time ever. She's had a cold and been waking up during the night. Not last night, she slept ALL NIGHT.

The dog wanted out at 12. So I woke up for that.

Then stuff got interesting. One gunshot woke me up. Second had me out of bed immediately to see a line of police cars outside the house. Initial thought? Holy F the cops just killed someone in front of the house. Then the whole range of what ifs. Then a few minutes later they turned off their lights and left. I'm hoping it was an injured deer, but i half expect that they executed someone and there is a body in the drain pipe under the road. I really hope i see a deer when i leave for work.

After finally being able to calm down and fall back asleep, the dog wanted out 4 more times. I slept none, on what was to be my most glorious night of sleep since july 22 2014.

Dude that sucks.

Last night our drama was the neighbors across the street were carrying on and making a lot of noise around 10 pm. I went outside to investigate and discovered two fire trucks. They had a car fire in their back parking space. Giant diesel truck idled virtually in my front yard for the next hour and a half.

Coincedence, but this is the one night my non-barking dog woke me up barking at 230am. Either someone berkeleying with the cars or the stray cat came back, he won't tell me which.

it was a deer. relieved that the local PD isn't going rogue and eliminating citizens who voted against their levy one at a time. on the record, if they are doing that, i voted for them.

done working, crashing hard, coffee break. i was so out of it this morning that i drove to my customer's house without stopping first at the supplier to pick up the pieces for the repairs i was doing

later, if i can stay awake long enough, we're shooting the ram and the charger with the fluid film stuff over at my dad's. washed the underside of the truck on the way home. 70+ today, supposed to snow tomorrow. blech.

Ugh stupid animals. I got to bed late (my fault) to find baby already sleeping in the bed with mommy. So I'm curled up with my 6" of blanket (how does a 30 pound kid take up all of a king bed?) and actually get comfortable and sleep deeply. Until 5am when our idiot cat busts the door open and slams it against the door stop. Stupid freaking cat. I honestly can't believe I haven't shot the thing yet. It's my wife's cat and I have been at the end of my rope with it a lot of times since the baby came. Baby sleeps well. Stupid cat is the problem.

And then she jumps on my lap and purrs and I can't quite pull the trigger.

The dogs sleep in cages. The cats sleep outside. The kids sleep in their own beds. And several of the cops live within a block or so. My house is a quiet as a tomb.

I slept like a baby.

Sorry for your troubles. There is not much worse than not being able to sleep before a busy day.

I'm pretty sure my upstairs neighbors run a dog, or kid fighting ring in their off times.

My next door neighbors (like, the other side of the living room wall) got busted last night with $20,000 worth of marijuana and marijuana concentrates. They just moved in a couple of weeks ago. They seem nice enough. I'll take them over the girlfriend beating felon (manslaughter, shot a guy who broke into his house in the Bronx late in the last century) from upstairs that recently moved out. He was a berkeleying tool.

In reply to mndsm:

I'm against dogfighting, but love the gambling and entertainment aspects of toddler, homeless or elderly fighting rings. If it's any of those I'll have to arrange getting over there.

You heard nothing. You saw nothing.

We have no pets. My daughter has to take care of her children through the night. When they move out, the world will return to normal.

PS. I've been itching today, so the antihistamine I take tonight will have me sleeping like a hibernating bear.

Coffee kicked in, threw dinner in oven and ran over and fluid filmed. Shot the piss out of the truck until it was running out of the rocker seams and frame. Used 6 quarts. Charger took significantly less as it doesnt have a real frame or bedsides to coat. Pulled the taillights on the truck and coated the entire insides of the bed.

I very rarely get more than five hours sleep. I'm like a zombie most of the time. Our neighborhood is super quiet though, once the sun goes down you could almost hear a pin drop in the middle of the street a half a block away. My problem is shutting my mind down, If I'm not mentally ready to sleep it's no use laying down. If I try to force it and just go lay down I will get no sleep at all. I've laid in the bed awake from 8pm until the alarm goes off at 5:30 the next morning enough times to know that if my mind is not shut down I should not even try it.

In reply to Nick (Bo) Comstock:

I'm like that too. Having a baby upped the exhaustion just high enough that falling asleep is no longer a problem. Not sure I'd recommend it as a solution though.

I usually get between 7 and 9 hours a night, with an occasional 12 hour night for good measure.

Once in a blue moon though, I'll get 2-4 hours. Either I can't get to sleep, or can't stay asleep. The next night is almost guaranteed to be a 12 hour night, because there is a good chance I'll go to bed as soon as I get home from work.

This has been a long week, I'll probably sleep 10 hours tonight and hit it early in the morning, to get the paint on SanFord finished. Tomorrow is looking to be our last warm day for a while.

In reply to Toyman01:

I would love to make the cat sleep outside, but in Ohio in winter that's a little less merciful than the aforementioned gun. They are african animals after all.

In reply to dculberson:

We only have 10-15 nights a year that get cold enough to worry about the cats, and even then they don't want to stay inside. They only time of year they really want inside, is the hottest days during the summer.

dculberson wrote: In reply to Toyman01: I would love to make the cat sleep outside, but in Ohio in winter that's a little less merciful than the aforementioned gun. They are african animals after all.

My mom has 5 outside cats. They get a house with straw and a light bulb. They dont care about cold. When it was -15 a couple years ago they slept in a cat pile together under the light.

In reply to patgizz:

My cat will curse your name. This thing has got to let me sleep through a night.

I have never willingly gone to sleep. There's too much to do.