“Foot on the pedal - never ever false metal
Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle
My job’s ain’t a job - it’s a damn good time
City to city - I’m running my rhymes”

Can’t use a Beastie Boys reference without giving out some lyrics.

Seriously, though, I haven’t been sleeping very well lately.  Not sure why.  I usually go to bed around 8:30pm and get up around 2:30am.  Pretty standard for a morning radio personality. Six hours of sleep should be plenty.

Up until about two weeks ago, I was one of those guys who could fall asleep in less than 15 minutes.  Lately, though, I end up lying awake for at least an hour or two and when I do fall asleep I dream non-stop.  Usually vivid, active dreams.  My alarm goes off and I’m exhausted.  With a little help from Diet Coke, I am awake and ready to go for the show, but usually dead tired by early afternoon.  I try not to nap though… because I can’t sleep at night!

I don’t eat for more than two hours before I go to bed, and I don’t drink anything caffeinated after lunch.  If you have any home remedies to help you sleep, I’d love to hear it.

So Vicky was talking about the car accident she was in yesterday, and it got me thinking about the last accident I was in. 

Sometimes it’s funny how things work out. I remember that it was about six years ago and I had met my wife and kids for dinner after work.  We had driven seperately, and after dinner we were taking different routes home.  My wife asked me if I wanted to take the kids with me and my oldest said she wanted to stay with mom.  That was fine with me. 

It was raining really hard.  Torrential downpour.  I was driving through this little town and the route I took curved along the side of a river.  I was driving a Jeep Cherokee at the time, and as I went around the corner, my truck hydroplaned and I swept across the center line.  I crunched into a little Nissan and completely totaled it.  Thank God no one was injured.  Because of the bad weather, neither of us was going more than 15-20 mph.  Since it was raining so hard, I let the other couple sit in my truck while we waited for the cops to show up.

I wasn’t ticketed, but I was listed as “at fault”, which I obviously was.  To this day, I think about it everytime I drive around that corner. Knock on wood, I’ve been lucky since then.  Drive safe!