Getting Stuff Done - Despite so Little Sleep...

Day 42:

Conor, we're going to have to work on this whole "wide awake at night" kick you're on. I don't mean to complain, I mean after all, you're the one doing all the heavy lifting... Eating, growing, eating, growing, eating, growing- The Lion Heart is taking no prisoners! Especially when it comes to the witching hour... But Son, how about a break? Think you can manage to stay awake a few hours during the day and maybe catch up on that sleep at night?

See, the problem is there's no way to stimulate you during the day. You're either eating or sleeping. There's no in-between. It's not as though I can read to you or talk to you or play music or vacuum or WHATEVER... You sleep through EVERYTHING! Though when 1:00am comes around, BOOM! Ready to party!!! I suppose you'll grow out of it eventually... At least, I HOPE you'll grow out of it eventually!

In the other happenings of the day, your Uncle Doug came to the house to help us in better heating and cooling the house as well as assisting us to fix our malfunctioning refrigerator. I have to say Conor, it's so great to have such a good friend who's as talented and well practiced as your Uncle Doug. He made short work of our broken ice-box, fixing it directly while making both adjustments and suggestions as to how to deal with our 25 year old HVAC system. I'm a pretty handy guy to be sure, and you will be too no doubt - it runs in the family - but when it comes to mechanical? No thank you. I leave it to the experts. General carpentry and electricity is right in my wheel house though... I learned from my Dad and you'll learn from me... And the best part about working with wood is, if you screw up a piece, you chuck it and get a new piece. Can't do that with a furnace!

Aside from that, a promising an impassioned State of the Union speech by your President, Conor. And I say promising and impassioned in so far as the speech writers are concerned, though I don't know President Barak Obama actually believes what he's saying. I think this President will be one you learn about in Social Studies class, but for reasons beyond his failed promises of "Hope and Change". It's a mad, mad world, Conor An Chroí Lion. Trust no one in politics, Son. No one.

I love you, Boy'O. Keep your sense common and practice your craft- whatever that may be, and life will be very, very good for you.

Always,
-Dad