I am starting to wonder how my eating habits effect my sleep.  Last night, came home, prepped some chicken rice and had a couple of beers. After that I read a bit then slept like a log, but woke up early.  Now, granted I go to bed early, but being awake at quarter to four alert and refreshed just kinda is disorienting. 

White rice is supposedly the bane of all things according to the granola based foodies.  Stuff and nonsense is my response.  It is food.  High carbs, good energy source, store-able, transportable, cooks quickly.  So take your food snootiness somewhere else please.  The reason that I bring this up is that I am working on a theory that a load of white rice an hour or two before bed seems to help getting a decent night's sleep.

Jury is still out at work.  New Sheriff seems OK.  Time will tell.

Screed

I like the idea of getting out of Syria.  Last time I looked, we were in there in direct contravention to international law.  But truthfully, all we did was move out maybe fifty GB's that were in training the Kurds and probably had gone native anyway (don't get your tits in a twist, the reason that I didn't retire is that I went native, I of of what I speak). 

We have to get out of the middle east.  Nothing else makes sense.  We are there so that we can keep American and British oligarch fed and sheltered (quite well thank you) on the skim from the oil.  The oil is gonna be sold, fungibility is its own reward, why we are killing folk is not to ensure their "freedom", but to make certain that caviar and Lear jets are available to our oligarchs.

Look, we are broke.  We just can't afford to fuck around like this anymore.