Oh what a night!  Trying to keep everything in perspective.  I already have a terrible headache.  So my problem should not be trying to stay awake, but rather to deal with the pain... Usually I get about four and one half hours sleep between 11pm and 4 am.  This depends on what I've done the day before.  So tonight I am going to try and use this time to try and reflect on my life.
  First off I was saddened by the realization that my Bruins had lost in overtime to Washington, oh well golfing I guess is in their immediate future.  Also tonight I am going to try and remember where life has taken me in the past.  Sometimes this is hard for me to do when my headaches get to bad (harder to remember things).  And also where I hope it can take me in the future.
  I've travelled everywhere man, breathed the mountain air man.  Well almost every where man!  By truck I have been to BC, AB,SK,MB,ON,and QU.  I have been in all of the lower 48 states including the District of Columbia.  I have walked across the border to Mexico.  I have dipped my feet in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as well as the Gulf of Mexico!  I have flown over Canada from coast to coast.
  Some of my greatest memories are waking up in the early summer morning in Montana with a light breeze blowing while doing my morning pre-trip, cattle in a near by field feeding, with the sound of irrigation sprinklers going.  Oh what a life,  Breathtaking!  Or on late spring days, with new crops just bursting up through the ground, as I was driving through the Q'uappelle valley in southern Saskatchewan.  Mid summer afternoon winds as they shift the wheat fields across the prairies, as they ripen for fall harvest.  Travelling through Ontario and Quebec, as well as north eastern USA in the fall seeing the leaves show their fall splendour.  The awesome desert sunrises.  Driving the coastline of southern Oregon and northern California to see the the surf and the great sunset's, these are just some of my memories that I fondly remember.  I am sure there are many more memories tucked away in my mind somewhere, but the old computer's data base is a little slow this morning.  So this is what life has dealt me for now.
  What are my expectations for the future?  Not much.  Hopefully someday to be able to be medication free (dealing with headaches).  Short of this, come up with a new miracle drug that will finally work for me.  So far it seems that the only thing that has been working for me is to reduce my activity, try not to read or watch TV.  Try and remove all forms off stress, noise and activity from ones life,  become somewhat of a hermit.  This has not solved the problem of the headaches though at times it makes them much more bearable.
  So we try and keep things very simple around here, it's one day at a time.  Today is another day hopefully my EEG goes well.  Then the rest of the day will be used for much needed rest, this to help get this headache back under some control.  Then hopefully latter tomorrow Susan and I to get back to our goal of Building the Simple life.....