Life's lessons: over and over, until you get them

That's the way life works. You run into a situation. You figure out how to deal with it. Then you forget. Then she same shit happens again. So you figure out how to deal with it. Oh, wait! That was the same thing you did last time. Then you forget. And once again, the same goddamn thing happens. And again, you have to figure it out. And again, it's the same thing. Eventually, say by the time you're sixty seven, you figure out that there's a pattern. And you write about it (in a suitably abstract way) in one of your blogs, the better to remember it. And tomorrow, who knows, maybe you won't forget.

OK, let's get specific.

First, substitute "I" for "you" in the first paragraph. Second, substitute feeling "lacking in energy," "down," or "depressed" for "situation" and its various other incarnations. Substitute "listen to music" for "you figure out how to do it."

Two nights ago, I dragged my tired ass down to the library at 11:30 PM to suck down some of their excellent bandwidth so that I could listen to my current favorite band, U2, streaming on my favorite video site, YouTube. At 2:30 when the concert was over, I was jazzed. No sleep without chemical help. And not tired the next two nights. Then tonight, tired. And struggling I found an old answer (not music, but a subject for another post). But then I remembered the music, and now I'm listening to my favorite Polish Sea Chantey streaming web site (Szanty24.pl, courtesy of Z3) and I may never go to sleep again. At least unti l finish this post.