Useless Musings

    I have been married to my wife for 15 years. The most common thing we fight about is the TV in the bedroom. I never had one in my bedroom growing up (except for a summer or two). She had one on constantly in her room growing up. Our first house we had a TV in the bedroom, because we had extra TVs from consolidating things. She has works for the government so has to be at work at 9 and has a short commute. I have to be at work at 8, a lot of times, and have had commutes over an hour half the time. I have also had to travel extensively for long durations throughout the country with, of course, early alarm times of 3:30 a.m., etc. This problem has even been brought up in therapy, the therapist even seeming surprised that she would continually disrupt my sleep when I ask her not to. PLUSssss, when I go to the gym I wake up at 5:20 a.m. and I HAVE to have 8 hours of sleep, so I have to be asleep by 9:20 and not be woken up. And I am a light sleeper. She is a heavy sleepe

     Old memory came back to me: I went to Hunstville, Texas / Sam Houston State for a Criminal Justice meeting while in college. You could do one of three tours as part of your stay: The death chamber where inmates are killed, death row in prison, and something like a work farm. I chose a tour of death row at the Ellis Unit. "clean dishes, early september" by cafemama is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0       Anyway of all the interesting stuff I saw, inmates got to go outside if they volunteered to clean pots and pans. So they sat under a gazebo outside, no soap or water, just lightly scrubbing a pan with steel scouring pad while they talked and looked around, because I guess you wanted the pan cleaning to take the entire amount of time they were out there and the didn't have water that far away from the building.       Another highlight of the trip, besides death row:  We were on the outskirts of the prison, but still on pri