Noise Pollution
I've been struggling with something all week, some project I have but I'm mostly spinning my wheels. I've also received some potentially exciting news, but no chickens have hatched as of yet. So it's been that kind of week so far. Last night I was up fairly late, watching the college courses they broadcast. They were interesting, about other culture's indigenous music and so on. I finally fell asleep just as contented as can be. Now, in an ideal world I would have been able to sleep until about 8AM and wake up and get back to work. But somewhere between 6:30 and 7 the garbage truck showed up and did the dumpster/beep/ bango-rama thing. They were really into this morning. Fine. A little more not-so-good sleep, finally up and at 'em. Now there is an alarm wailing away. It happens occasionally around here. An alarm goes off for no good reason, a high pitched, non-stop, noise like floss through your brain.

Once when I was in Alabama I was living in a singlewide trailer next to a cornfield and a cow pasture. There was a tornado around somewhere and it had knocked out all of the power. It was interesting to be in such a rural setting with no electricity. It felt like how it must have been a hundred years ago or so, and I could hear little noises from far off in the distance. Life goes on.