Early Riser: Day 1
Habit nearly got the best of me this morning. The buzzer went off at 6am and I walked to my newly-relocated alarm and set it for 30 minutes later … I even got back in bed. Oh sweet, warm, comfortable, early-morning bed, your siren call overwhelms a man. But I’ve known you too often; it’s time to do a little growing up (just a little). So I stood up, put my pajama pants on, turned on the light and glanced at my cat who retorted with a look that said “quitter.”
What, you might ask, did I do with this new-found early-morning lucidity? I watched Bio-Dome. Looks like this is a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other sort of situation.
Waking Up Early
Let's face it: I haven't been an early riser since elementary school. Back then, it was a heck of a lot easier: mom coming in saying "wake up sweetie," breakfast ready to go, and no stress about whether or not my latest employer is going to tank like the last two. As they say, you can never go back. Sigh.
College didn't help. I didn't exactly thrive in my first attempt at setting my own schedule, and the numerous professors who - at the time - would have replied to any question about me with a quizzical "Sean Matula who " can attest to that reality.
The working life moved things in the right direction. Having people expecting your presence, and knowing that your ability to maintain shelter is dependent on pleasing those people makes a big difference. But given the opportunity or the discretion, I still tend towards a later day.
That said, in the back of my head there's this little voice. It nags me. It reminds me that "the early bird gets the worm" and that "nothing good ever happened after midnight" (though, lots of very fun things have). So, at this point in my life, why not give it the ol' college try that I never gave in college?
Six AM. Ambitious for an 8 AM workday riser. I've moved my alarm clock so it's not reachable form bed; and I'm working on a bit of recorded self-help to spur the half-man-half-zombie destined to hear it. "Your life is today" I say, "go out and live it."
"We'll see" says the devil on my shoulder.
Small Problem Solved
I've been running into a bug while trying to develop a template for HaciendaLPG.com. Whenever I tried to add a menu or menu item using Joomla's ACP, they didn't seem to show up, and there was nothing to indicate any kind of error. It turns out that it's a problem with PHP versions. I run WAMP on my local machine as a staging server, and the latest version defaults to PHP 5.3.0. A quick downgrade to 5.2.9, available through the WAMP taskbar icon menu, fixed the problem.