We were out a little late last night, and went to bed pretty much right after we got home. I’m not even sure if it was later than usual. For whatever reason, I must have slept pretty well. Normally I get up early on Tuesdays and Fridays, and when the alarm went off this morning, my first thought was that it was the early alarm. But I immediately realized it wasn’t the right day for that, and that it really was my normal time to get up. My next thought was amazement that my just-woke-up brain could process that correctly.
Morning has been coming too early for me pretty much since my teen years… Maybe it’ll get better in my retirement years. That’s about the only good life phase left. We’ve been doing some retirement planning, making sure we’ve got funds where they should be, how much longer I need to work before I can retire, based on how long we’re planning on living. This is a very odd discussion to have. It’s sobering to think about planning for the end of your life, but that’s essentially what is happening every time we meet with our investment folks.
Contrast that with going to hear a comedian telling stories about trying to impress a girl by showing off your car’s acceleration. And crashing into her family car. Which her father is driving at the time… Probably the worst moment of their lives up to that point. But we can barely breath from laughing. In fact, that would be unsobering. It’s the opposite of sobering.
Something else that is unsobering, used as a verb, is the process of moving from sober to not sober. Not so much getting drunk, but getting less sober. Could that be called light drinking, as opposed to heavy drinking? Maybe if you were light drinking while at a comedy club, you would be unsobering while listening to unsobering stories. Well, now I’m dizzy.
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