You know you’re
overtired when you find yourself so drowsy from dozing that you speak to
someone who isn’t there as you return to consciousness, loudly and confidently as if you were
mid-conversation.
“Yes”, I said to
no-one in particular as I woke up from my brief snooze, proving that whatever
it was I was just dreaming, I was very sure of it.
I’ve been feeling
extremely shattered since returning from Edinburgh as
the exhaustion of a month away catches up with me. as I write, I’m
literally struggling to stay awake and should really just go to bed, though
this probably wasn’t helped by the combination of a couple of glasses of wine
I’ve had this evening and the medication I’m taking; either way, this paragraph
has taken far more persistence than it really should have done and to what end?
I
sometimes have quite skewed priorities, though then again I’m probably just
overdramatizing because of the tiredness; either way, my time would be better
served by just going to bed than sitting here discussing it.
Outside of
talking to myself, I had a nice evening just listening to s few records with my
wife using the record player she bought me as present recently. I started by
putting on my mono copy of Sgt Pepper as I’ve been watching a couple of video
interviews with The Beatles' recording engineer Geoff Emerick in which he swears
blindly it’s the only version worth listening too (recent remaster included).
This is partly because only the mono mixing sessions were deemed worthy of having
The Beatles present. It’s also fitting for me to return to that LP as it was
my first introduction to the group all those years ago, so it’s amazing
the vinyl’s still standing all these years later. But more on that another time
as I just practically fell asleep again…'