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You are here: Home / Open Threads / I need to go the fuck to sleep

I need to go the fuck to sleep

by David Anderson|  June 6, 20147:27 am| 75 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Stream of Consciousness, Someone Somewhere Is Having More Fun Than I Am

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Got to bed last night at midnight after a fifteen hour day working on next year’s Exchange filing plan. My son then woke up at 1:30 in the morning and would not get back to sleep until 4:40 as he had one of those spurts of putting things together for the first time as he started on three and four world sentences that cracked him up. And today looks like another sixteen hour day.

Fuck!

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    June 6, 2014 at 7:33 am

    Well that just sucks! Hopefully, you can catch up on your sleep this weekend.

  2. 2.

    aimai

    June 6, 2014 at 7:36 am

    Oh! How well I remember those nighttime excitements and learning spurts. We had a fussy new baby and a toddler and were all sleeping in the same room stiflingly hot, damp, room on a holiday and the toddler was just UP like she’d been doing cocaine and kept demonstrating for us that she could “fly” her little stuffed penguin at us all night long.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    June 6, 2014 at 7:37 am

    I blame Obama.

  4. 4.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 7:39 am

    Cheer up, in 15-16 years you can stay up all night waiting for a kid to come home. He really really really wanted to call, but his cell phone died.

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    June 6, 2014 at 7:43 am

    “Go the Fuck to Sleep” is a masterpiece, and only Samuel L. Jackson could do it justice.

  6. 6.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 7:54 am

    @MomSense: And when you get to be my age you won’t give a shit.

  7. 7.

    Poopyman

    June 6, 2014 at 7:54 am

    @MomSense: In 15-16 years Richard can send his self-driving car to bring the kid home.

    At least I got 5 hrs sleep between commutes. OTOH, you have a son. Seems like more than fair enough trade.

  8. 8.

    Poopyman

    June 6, 2014 at 7:55 am

    @Betty Cracker: There’s a lullaby in there somewhere.

  9. 9.

    OzarkHillbilly

    June 6, 2014 at 8:06 am

    @MomSense: My parents were just happy I came home. At least then they knew I was still alive.

  10. 10.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 8:10 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: My parents were glad the Army took me so I couldn’t come home!

  11. 11.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 8:21 am

    @raven:

    My mom still calls me to find out if I am home safely!

  12. 12.

    Baud

    June 6, 2014 at 8:23 am

    Via Twitter, it appears DougJ just learned of David Brooks’s latest column.

  13. 13.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 6, 2014 at 8:25 am

    Fuck!

    That’s what at least partially got you into this mess in the first place.

  14. 14.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 8:28 am

    @Poopyman:

    I’m imagining the conversations parents will have with their kids about back in the day we had to drive our cars, kinda like explaining rotary phones on a party line.

  15. 15.

    Poopyman

    June 6, 2014 at 8:30 am

    @MomSense: “Back in my day, we didn’t have cars that could home in on your chip implant and scoop you up! We had to hoof it on our own! Eh? ‘What’s a hoof?’ “

  16. 16.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 8:31 am

    @MomSense: God, at the 84 Olympics I was 35 and my brother was 25. I lived in Illinois and he was in law school in NORCAL We went out to events and ended up partying all night. We got back an my mom raised hell!

  17. 17.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 8:33 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: @raven:

    Have you seen the photos from Normandy today? I visited a little over 25 years ago but I still tear up when I think about it.

  18. 18.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 8:36 am

    @MomSense: Oh yea, I got up at 4:30 to watch. It was really nice to see the vets and Obama chat and shake hands after his speech.

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 8:37 am

    @raven:

    She sounds just like someone I know who of course I am nothing like and not becoming more like every day.

  20. 20.

    GregB

    June 6, 2014 at 8:41 am

    @raven:

    They weren’t all spitting on him? Traitors!

  21. 21.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 8:41 am

    @MomSense: Yea, she’s been gone for some time now. That was interesting because we were basically separated when I was 11 so that was her chance to mommy me.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    June 6, 2014 at 8:43 am

    @Poopyman

    “In the snow.”

    “What’s snow?”

  23. 23.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    June 6, 2014 at 8:44 am

    ObOpenThread.

    Recently we were talking about how worthless NPR is in many cases. Yesterday’s “All Things Considered” had a segment that was an exception.

    Larua Sullivan: Paroled From Life Sentences, Aging Ex-Cons Find World That Didn’t Wait. It’s well worth a listen (12:40). (The link has a transcript.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  24. 24.

    OzarkHillbilly

    June 6, 2014 at 8:45 am

    @raven: On the eve of my leaving to spend a season in Canada on my Aunt and Uncle’s fishing and hunting camp with my reprobate cousin (he really was), my old man said to my mother, “If you think he’s bad now, just wait until he comes back!”

  25. 25.

    sharl

    June 6, 2014 at 8:51 am

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Yeah, that WAS good. They do have their moments.

  26. 26.

    the Conster

    June 6, 2014 at 8:52 am

    @raven:

    I rely on your “I watch Mornin’ Village Hos so you don’t have to” insight. Was it pre-empted today?

  27. 27.

    rikyrah

    June 6, 2014 at 8:54 am

    Sorry about the lack of sleep.

    Samuel L. Jackson and this were made for one another.

  28. 28.

    R-Jud

    June 6, 2014 at 8:54 am

    Sunrise here is about 4:45 AM at the moment, and the Bean has been up with the birds. I’ve had to coax her into lying back down from 6-7:30 so she doesn’t dissolve during the school day. And so I don’t collapse into a heap myself right before lunch.

    D-Day-related: Here’s a picture of my great-uncle Gino, who landed on Omaha Beach, back in high school after the war. He was a small, slight, shy man, not more than 5’6″, and I can’t tell what’s bugging him more: the photographer or the girls all around him making goo-goo eyes. I guess it could be the algebra, too.

  29. 29.

    low-tech cyclist

    June 6, 2014 at 8:54 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    “Go the Fuck to Sleep” is a masterpiece, and only Samuel L. Jackson could do it justice.

    True on both counts!

  30. 30.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 8:55 am

    @the Conster: No, Brokaw, Mitchell and Barnicle were at Normandy starting a 4 then the rest of them were on at 6.

  31. 31.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 8:57 am

    @R-Jud: What a great shot and an great man!

    “Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Merli was the son of a coal miner. He entered service in the United States Army from Peckville in July 1943[1] and served with the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. With his division, he went ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 and participated in the Battle of the Bulge in December of the same year.

    On the evening of September 4, 1944, near Sars-la-Bruyère in Belgium (now a deelgemeente of Frameries), his company was attacked by a superior German force. Their position was overwhelmed, but PFC Merli stayed with his machine gun covering their retreat. When his position was overrun, he feigned death while German soldiers prodded him with their bayonets, only to rise and confront the enemy when they withdrew. Twice he fooled German soldiers into believing he was no longer a threat, only to attack them again when they left him for dead. In the morning, a counterattack forced the Germans to ask for a truce. The negotiating party found Merli still at his gun.

    For his heroism, PFC Gino Merli received the Medal of Honor from President Truman on June 15, 1945. In addition, he received two Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star, the Battle of the Bulge Medal, and the Humanitarian Award of the Chapel of Four Chaplains for his actions during World War II.

    In civilian life, Merli took it upon himself to serve fellow veterans. He was an adjudication officer for the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Plains Township, Pennsylvania. He traveled to the Normandy beaches in 1984 in the company of Tom Brokaw and was a source of inspiration for Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation.”

  32. 32.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 8:59 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: That’s what the green machine did for me!

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    June 6, 2014 at 9:02 am

    @raven

    Can’t shake the mental image of Scarborough in a French cafe, asking if the pot-au-feu comes with a side of grits.

  34. 34.

    rikyrah

    June 6, 2014 at 9:02 am

    BLS-Labor Statistics ✔ @BLS_gov

    Payroll employment rises by 217,000 in May; unemployment rate unchanged at 6.3% http://go.usa.gov/vrK #JobsReport #BLSdata

    Now, what would it be if we didn’t have one political party that chose to commit ECONOMIC TREASON against this country beginning January 20, 2009?

  35. 35.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 9:09 am

    @R-Jud:

    Wow, to have his experiences and then go back to high school. He was a great man and handsome too. I can see why the girls liked him.

  36. 36.

    R-Jud

    June 6, 2014 at 9:19 am

    @raven: He was a sweet, sweet guy. He never had any ambitions to use his celebrity for anything other than calling attention to the needs of veterans. I didn’t get to know him all that well– that branch of the family never left Scranton, ever– but I do remember helping him weed the garden and pick seeds out of sunflowers when I was small.

    My grandfather, his older brother, spent the entire war at Fort Dix serving as an interpreter for Italian POWs. One of the prisoners actually made him a set of bocce balls; my Dad still has it and uses it.

    Grandpa used his GI Bill benefits to go get an MA in History at the University of Pennsylvania. He was in the library one night when a co-ed sauntered up to him and asked him if he wanted to go see the Phillies play the Yankees the next day.

    “Why, do you have tickets?”
    “No, but you could buy us some!”

    Turned out this babe was also a vet; she’d served as a psychiatric nurse in Hawaii. Also, she outranked him: grandpa had finished the war as a sergeant, and she had been a lieutenant. And for the next 45 years of their life together, she never let him forget it.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    June 6, 2014 at 9:22 am

    @R-Jud: What a sweet story, and well told.

  38. 38.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 9:23 am

    @R-Jud: Great story. Did they have any kids that went to West Point? MOH children get priority.

  39. 39.

    raven

    June 6, 2014 at 9:28 am

    @R-Jud: It’s so good to know firsthand how “regular” so many of these folks are.

  40. 40.

    JPL

    June 6, 2014 at 9:35 am

    @R-Jud: Thank you for sharing a bit of your family history with us. I have goose bumps after reading the article about your great uncle.

  41. 41.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 9:53 am

    C-Span 2 covering today’s DDay anniversary ceremonies live. You can watch it without press corpse yokels yakking over it.

    President Obama arrived a few minutes ago to enthusiastic cheers and applause. Escorted by two young children, he greeted a line of DDay vets, thanking them for their service, good to see you, etc.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    June 6, 2014 at 9:57 am

    @Elizabelle

    Three score and ten years ago…

  43. 43.

    R-Jud

    June 6, 2014 at 10:01 am

    @raven: Gino had two sons and a daughter. His older son is a doctor and a college professor in Philadelphia. The other son served in the Army, but I’m not sure if he went to West Point. I know he’s younger than my dad, so he would have been too young to serve in Vietnam.

  44. 44.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:02 am

    I love that our vets fought to push back Hitler and his allies, and we now have the ability to discuss their service on a thread called “I need to go the fuck to sleep.” It’s fitting, somehow. I think a lot of those young soldiers would laugh.

  45. 45.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:05 am

    @R-Jud:

    Great story.

    I’d love to hear more about the Italian POWs grandfather too.

  46. 46.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 10:06 am

    @Elizabelle:

    Now if only I could figure out how to mute the interpreter.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:07 am

    @MomSense:

    Oui!

  48. 48.

    JPL

    June 6, 2014 at 10:08 am

    @MomSense:
    Since we saved their butts, Hollande should give his address in English.
    (I’m practicing how it feels to be a wingnut)

  49. 49.

    JPL

    June 6, 2014 at 10:18 am

    @MomSense: The feed is awful.

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    June 6, 2014 at 10:22 am

    @JPL: Nous voila, Lafayette

  51. 51.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:23 am

    @JPL:

    What channel you watching? And where is everybody?

  52. 52.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:24 am

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):

    Bonjour.

  53. 53.

    Dee Loralei

    June 6, 2014 at 10:25 am

    @Elizabelle: I left you a message yesterday. We’re staying in Alexandria on King Street, so we’ll be near King Street station and old town Alexandria. I do hope you still want to meet for drinks. Next Wed and Thursday.

  54. 54.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:29 am

    @Dee Loralei:

    Thank you Dee. Let’s make it happen. Do you have a preference on which day?

    Maybe Anne Laurie or DougJ can put up a thread for us DC-ists, so we can organize a meet-up. Would be fun! I wish we could have the weather we’ve got in DC area today. It’s clear and warm but not humid.

    So glad you are visiting.

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:34 am

    How French.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    June 6, 2014 at 10:35 am

    @Elizabelle: nbcnews.com has a feed.

  57. 57.

    MomSense

    June 6, 2014 at 10:35 am

    @JPL:

    Yes, but the interpretive dance. Magnifique!

    Only the French would think to do this!!

  58. 58.

    BAtFFAP's phone

    June 6, 2014 at 10:42 am

    This may not be the time, then, to bring up the fact that for the 2nd straight night, my 8 week old has slept through the night? (I know it won’t last. But this morning we don’t care.)

  59. 59.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 10:45 am

    This is very effective. Video, dance, history. A surreally calm beach behind all.

  60. 60.

    JPL

    June 6, 2014 at 10:45 am

    @MomSense: Yes it is.

  61. 61.

    the Conster

    June 6, 2014 at 10:55 am

    @MomSense:

    I guess interpretive dance is in the French tradition. Parisians doing an interpretive dance against same sex marriage. Nothing says anti-gay quite like a silver lame bodysuit.

  62. 62.

    scav

    June 6, 2014 at 10:57 am

    @JPL: Any true Wingnut would say the same to the BB-bloody-C.

    Speaking of which, D-day news reworked from there.

  63. 63.

    Ben Cisco

    June 6, 2014 at 10:59 am

    OT, but it appears the Mothership has landed…at the Smithsonian?

  64. 64.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 11:03 am

    C-Span 2 is the place to be for this dance ceremony.

    They’ve not shown many insets of Angela Merkel; some of Putin, and PBO (chewing gum) and QE2. Footage of her as a young British patriot earlier.

  65. 65.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    June 6, 2014 at 11:04 am

    @Ben Cisco: Did they tear the roof off the mother sucker to get it in there?

  66. 66.

    Dee Loralei

    June 6, 2014 at 11:04 am

    @Elizabelle: Let’s do Wednesday, so y’all can tell me the can’t miss places and maybe we can get to them on Thursday. It won’t do me any good telling me what I missed Thursday evening when I won’t have the opportunity to get to the recommended places, LOL. My father wants to eat at Legal Seafood, he loves their Cioppino. After we eat, I’ll hustle him back to the hotel and we can meet. Luckily he likes to eat earlyish around 6 or so. So then Coop and I will have the entire night free.

    Any place you all decide is fine with me. We’re pretty easy going as long as the beer is cold and the drinks are strong. I am so looking forward to this.

  67. 67.

    Mnemosyne

    June 6, 2014 at 11:06 am

    In the kids are alright news, here’s a guy quitting his crappy hotel job with the help of his marching band friends.

    (If you expand down, he explains about the crappy working conditions and union-busting going on at the hotel.)

  68. 68.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 11:06 am

    Take that, holocaust deniers.

  69. 69.

    Mnemosyne

    June 6, 2014 at 11:06 am

    Can I please be freed from moderation? Looks like FYWP doesn’t like YouTube links today.

  70. 70.

    scav

    June 6, 2014 at 11:07 am

    oh I lucked out catching the live feed. That was an effective turn.

  71. 71.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 11:10 am

    How moving for the vets in attendance, to be reminded, artfully, elegantly, of what they achieved in their youth. I am so glad they can be there, and think a lot of vets and their loved ones are watching worldwide.

    ETA: Although not on MSNBC, hmmm? Back to discussing Bergdahl.

    And CNN’s at commercial. A dog cleaning its teeth with a dog treat.

  72. 72.

    Scamp Dog

    June 6, 2014 at 11:19 am

    three and four world sentences

    that’s impressive! Or should we be waiting for first world sentences?

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Betty Cracker’s put up a D-Day thread.

  74. 74.

    JPL

    June 6, 2014 at 11:26 am

    Wow.

  75. 75.

    Richard Mayhew

    June 6, 2014 at 11:30 am

    @BAtFFAP’s phone: Congrats — enjoy the long periods once you stop worrying that the Spawn is sleeping through the night and might not be OK

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