I'm a Believer
BBC to the rescue
I can understand being a non-napper. It takes time to believe in the merits of something one hasn’t undertaken ever or in a long while. We all have longstanding biases that inform our thinking. The goal of this Substack is to help non-believers understand the important role a nap can play.
And I think we are making progress. To wit, we have a non napper — possibly anti-napper but I don’t want to judge — in our Buffett group. Our good friend Clown.1 So when Clown told us recently, “Proud to say I just took a 1 hour nap to the bbc shipping forecast,” it was like an Oppenheimer-level bomb went off in the group chat.2
To quote Joey, “Woah.” Clown napped; for a nap-level amount of time; using a cheat code. Hot damn. And I here I am in a lousy streak, I may as well be Tom Brady losing two Super Bowls to the Giants.3
Don’t get me wrong — I had tried the cheat code. It just annoyed me and didn’t work. But if Clown can do it, it was worth another try. And wouldn’t you know…it worked! That fateful night with Knox’s dumb face scaring the crap out of me. And it’s worked since.
Recently I had been using it a only at night, but today I rolled it out for a badly needed “need” nap at 3:30. And booked a solid 20 minute deep snooze.
We’re back Mortimer!!
This is an opportune time to thank Bozo’s wife being the on-call pediatrician for our group. As you can imagine, between all of us, we’ve got a bunch of kids who like to bump into things, ingest things, scrapes, bruises, rashes and other assorted ailments. While she doesn’t have her own chat room within our broader group list, an S.O.S to Clown plus a picture usually does the trick. Thanks, doc!
“Dropping a bomb” has to be equally as cancelable as anything else. I mean, even I’m on the road to being offended by it. Well, I can see the road, I haven’t actually stepped foot on it. Still, it would be ironic if we got canceled on Matt’s week off. Not surprising, just ironic. The day is coming, it’s just a matter of whose foot hits the bear trap. Is “bear trap” offensive?
I just annoyed half the Buffett list. If one of you steps up with an FGF, I’ll take it back. Until then, consider yourself bullied.