Sleepless Joe's Blog: Background & Entry 1

Nerves are running through his mind. They are racing every moment through every fiber of his being. He can’t think straight. He knows he must settle himself down in order to sleep. Yes this man cannot sleep. Joe hasn’t slept in days. Well that is not entirely true. He has slept for bits and pieces of nights but no more than 2 hours in a day and a total of 4 hours over 4 days.

There is no way to rationalize this lack of sleep. Joe does not have to worry about many things. Joe has a stable source of income. He is not filthy rich but he never struggle to pay rent or worry about having to pay a bill. Joe is happily married and everyone knows this because he smiles every time he sees his wife and his wife smiles every time she sees him. Joe is completely healthy. He does not drink caffeine. He exercises regularly and exercises his mind. Joe does not have any anxiety or stress to blame this lack of sleep on. Joe has a fulfilling life except the lack of sleep.

Back to Joe, he is trying to sleep next to his wife. Joe tried his back, both sides, stomach and is now back on his back staring at the ceiling. Joe is trying to figure out how long to stay in bed awake before it would be okay to move and do something else. Frankly, he doesn’t know. This is the 5^th day with this problem and he is still not sure. Joe decides if he cannot sleep in the next 10 minutes he will go do something else.

Part of him wishes he had a newborn child so he would have a reason to not sleep and get out of bed. Unfortunately for Joe, he does not have a newborn child or any other wish for a child. Joe and his wife are young and do not want to have children for another few years.

It is not like he is tired though. He is trying to sleep because that is what he should do. Now that it is 10 minutes later, Joe rises out of bed and heads to the living room. The one positive is he is now caught up with basic mundane tasks (Dishes, reading newspapers, and writing Thank You cards). The bigger problem is what is he to do?

Like all of the modern world’s problems, Joe turned to the internet. And, he created a nightly blog. All he needs to do is figure out what to call it. It seems obvious right now to call it Sleepless Joe considering he is sleepless or close to it and his name is Joe.

Night 1

Well folks I have run out of productive things to do in my life so I decided I would ruin your life with my random thoughts and facts about my life. First a little about me, my name is Joe I live in Seattle but I am a misplaced Chicago man. I grew up in the area and went to Northwestern. I know you are reading this now and wondering why you should give a fuck? The truth is that you do not have to care just keep reading if you want to. Or God forbid, you quit reading like all the other whips out there that can’t hack completing something you started. I am writing this because I cannot sleep and need something to do. You are probably reading this because you need to kill time at work and some co-worker told you it was worth the read. You better hope that co-worker is right otherwise that late work you are going to hand in won’t be worth it. Anyway, I am writing this because I can’t sleep and I bored. I couldn’t figure out what to do with all this new found time that I know have since I can’t sleep. I have balanced the checkbook, done the dishes, cleaned the house, and made lunch for today to bring to work. Now that all the boring stuff is done might as well try something that might entertain me. I tried watching television, but there is nothing worth watching at 4am. Some dumb guy is probably saying you could watch Sportscenter. Hey dumbo. The 4am show is the same as the 2am and 3am show I have already watched, and no Sportscenter is not like wine it gets worse the more times you watch it. That sentence will make my wife happy. She hates watching it and after watching the same show for a fourth time by 6am I agree with her until tomorrow. That is a good place to recap and end. I can’t sleep and fine myself entertaining enough to write my thoughts. You might not agree and if that’s the case don’t read tomorrow’s post or I put a comment section below and make an angry comment that I wasted your time. If the latter is the case, I will put my response here:  fuck you and stop reading this. Good morning all, to everyone else.