...and all I got was this measly buzz.

Yesterday I had a 3 hour meeting in Hartford. Used to be easy enough, right? Buy a ticket, fly 2 hrs, go to meeting, fly 2 hrs, be home. Should be an 8 hour affair. Only I didn't get info about the meeting till Friday, it's the holidays and flights are sold out or unavailable, and I am a milk-filled ticking time bomb, in oh so many ways, and I can't just "jump on a flight" without spending 15 minutes locked in a bathroom first.

To start with, the only flight I could get there was 6am. The last direct return flight was 5pm, and the meeting ended at 4pm, so that was a no-go. I ended up with a one-stop through Charlotte that didn't get me home till 11:30pm. Oh, but it had to snow in Chicago. Make that around 12:30am. I decided that each time the flight was delayed, I'd drink. I was quite jovial.

Anyway, I'm deep into a FDR biography that I'm finding riveting. It's chilling how similar their economic crisis was to ours. Like, word for word. But here's something I really found food for thought-- that up until just after WWI, society was barely able to produce enough goods to meet human need. We bought just what we needed and in basic, plain, utilitarian forms, since that's all that could be justifiably produced. Then, suddenly, we were producing more than was needed. Since there was a glut of items on the market, they began to differentiate in order to seek buyers. And then was born advertising, to convince people to buy things they didn't need, since there was this overproduction people had to be driven to overconsume. I guess I'm so used to the way things are that I hadn't given it much thought. I wish I lived in a society that was the old way. I don't need a fancy toothbrush or escalator handrails with Hampton Inn ads.

Anyway. FDR was flippin' awesome.

Thus we come to the place in the blog usually inhabited by workout information. Note the vacancy. I should mention that Elliot has taken to sleeping in 90 minute stints for the last three nights, which on top of that travel yesterday means a return to the mid-fall sleep deprivation. I badly want a workout but I feel ready to fall over from exhaustion already.