“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.” W. C. Fields

In the wee hours....

I’m tellin’ you, when a body can’t sleep, the computer is simply put an outstanding invention....the number of Solitaire games alone ‘ud be worth the price of admission...plus you can wander all around the world reading newspapers that don’t make any more sense than your own local paper ‘cept the names are more difficult to pronounce...you got The New York Times, The London Times, The Irish Times...The Times of India....all in addition to The Portsmouth Times (which I read mainly for the obits)...England is a rather tiny island nation with, I think, durn near as many newspapers as the USA...France has newspapers but it’s a law somewhere that you gotta be French to read them....Italian newspapers are like Italian movies, incomprehensible but full of joie de vivre which is French but that’s the Italians for you...I was reading The Australian for awhile but lately I’ve been perusing the Buenos Aires Herald....I don’t know how many papers around the globe are called ‘The Herald’....I think New Zealand has a Herald...I’ll have to give it a try...I tried reading the Brazilian news but gave it up early on....I don’t know why I still subscribe to a daily paper....habit, I suppose...I don’t like the Sacramento Bee...I never have but after they ran the Sacramento Union out of business, it didn’t leave much choice...I could have boycotted them, I guess, but it wouldn’t have done any good...I boycott Nike...have done so for years on account of the child labor thing...don’t even know if they still do that but I expect they do..
I think now I mostly boycott them out of habit...I don’t think they’ve ever taken any notice but that’s alright...I use’ta boycott Hershey after they moved all their operations to Mexico...I don’t buy Hershey anymore but not because of a boycott...it’s just because I don’t eat a lot of candy anymore...well, except for See’s...a man can’t give up everything.....

W. C. Fields said, “If I could live my life over, I’d like it to be over a saloon.”