Night Sounds

It’s five AM in the morning.  I got up and fixed myself a cup of coffee, and turned on the cam.  Being it’s dark, and there is nothing that can be streamed I just turned up the speakers and listened to the early morning chorus of crickets.  Chirping away out there in foggy dark.  It one thing that you never hear in Alaska.  We have been in a large city since our arrival and the sound of traffic from the freeways and byways is a constant sound that permeates everything.  I’m sure many who watched and listened to the cam at night in North Pole were very aware of the traffic we seem to have there.  Nonetheless, it would grow very quite at times.  I’m longing to move farther out into the country side, to see if I can find that place where all I hear is the natural sounds of the night instead of the roar of the freeway.

Insomnia

Sitting outside the RV this morning at 4:40 AM, I awoke around 3 AM.  Third day in a row I’ve awakened at such an ungodly hour.  I’m sure there is a ton of over the counter drugs, hormones and other prescribed medicines I could acquire to help me get to sleep.  The one good thing that is coming from it is the fact it’s cool enough to sit outside the RV and listen to the crickets.  Along with the traffic from the Interstate I can hear makes for a nice time to be up and awake.  We looked at new trucks today and was totally shocked at the prices.  I would love to have a new one ton dual axel rig to pull this RV with, if we can swing the finances.  Our little trip down to San Antonio showed me that the old 1/2 ton HD GMC just wasn’t enough truck to efficiently do the job.  The only major set back to acquiring a new truck is getting financing.  We looked at Fords, Chevy and Dodges yesterday.  I sure like the one Dodge we looked at.  It was the most reasonable of all the models price wise.  Fords were just out of the question.  Even in bad economical times like these, they just were priced out of our price range by any means available.  It’s now 5 AM and I’m having my first cup of coffee.  I spent most of the day yesterday listening to the presentations at Gnomedex.  Congratulations to Chris Pirillo for putting it together.  Maybe next year I can attend, with a little luck.  It would be a hoot to me all the ops of WyldRyde who attend.  Over these many years I’ve been a part of that network, I’ve come to think of them as family.  One of the very things the presenters yesterday were speaking of.  How one grows community on line.  It seems I’ve found mine.

I awoke this morning it was -47.8 and the back Monitor stove is out of fuel oil.  Which means a trip into town to fill up the four five gallon jugs that I use to fill the little thirty gallon drum.  If I can even get the old car to start.  Maybe next year I’ll try to install a 100 to 300 gallon above ground tank so I can call the fuel oil company to fill it.  Called the son-in-laws, to see if anyone was headed into town  and one isn’t even letting the grandkids go to school today.  Don’t blame them, it’s so damn cold it’s scary to be out on the highway with the heavy ice fog.  My oldest daughter said she’s has to drive into work, and the traffic is still moving along at 60 miles an hour and people have almost zero visibility at times.  Idiots, she said, the whole place is filled with idiots when it comes to driving in this fog.  They gather up so they can see the taillights in front of the them and they they all prey no one stops as they go like hell.