{"id":1077,"date":"2015-01-04T06:24:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2015-05-06T06:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:27:41","slug":"only-in-hindsight-can-we-appreciate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/only-in-hindsight-can-we-appreciate\/","title":{"rendered":"Only In Hindsight Can We Appreciate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Postaday for January 4th:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_prompt\/first\/\">First!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tell us about your first day at something \u2014 your first day of school, first day of work, first day living on your own, first day blogging, first day as a parent, whatever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first time I woke up on May the 5th, 2014, was at about 12:03 AM. I had been browsing Reddit for hours, and had fallen asleep in my chair. A loud noise woke me, probably my own snoring. My neck was stiff, my ass hurt from the way I was piled in my chair, and I had to pee, but bad. So I got up and when to the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Washed my hands, and somewhere between the bathroom and my bed, some clothes came off.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t the only time I woke up on May the 5th, 2014, which is why it was the first, and not the only time. There\u2019s a difference. On May the 4th, for example, I woke up just the once, at about 5:00 AM. I had down a f-Hour Energy Drink, did some meditation, visited the rest-room, put on running clothes, ran a 5K, took a shower, sent my wife off to work, ate some oatmeal. All of those things can be accomplished if one only wakes up once per day.<\/p>\n<p>But the next day I woke up seven\u00a0times, and got nothing done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Woke, as I said, for the first time, at 12:03.<\/li>\n<li>Woke again at about 3:20 am or so, to pee.<\/li>\n<li>Again at 5:00 AM, when my alarm went off.<\/li>\n<li>Again at 5:30, when my wife got out of bed to take a shower.<\/li>\n<li>Again at 6:30 when my wife left to go to work<\/li>\n<li>Again at 7:54 for a conference call. And did I get anything done for the next four hours? No. Eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at noon does not count.<\/li>\n<li>Woke again at about 2:30, again in my office chair, hot and sticky, and I have to tell you, for the next 30 minutes, I have never been so completely exhausted in my life. Somewhere between my home office and the 7-11, I managed to put in some clothes and buy a Mountain Dew.<\/li>\n<li>Now, for when my wife came home at 4:30, I don\u2019t know if what I did you\u2019d call \u201cwaking up\u201d since I don\u2019t know if I was really asleep. I was just sort of sitting on our giant chair, sort of looking at the TV, sort of watching it, but I don\u2019t remember what it was. It might have been Portlandia. I\u2019m not sure.<\/li>\n<li>And, finally, I woke up one more time, at 11:50 PM or so, in my office chair, after having fallen asleep while browsing Reddit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But let\u2019s talk about that first time I woke up on May the 5th, 2014. 12:03 AM, Cinco de Mayo in Seattle was a officially only a few minutes old. So much portent in that waking. So much foreshadowing. It would come to define my day, that waking, or shall I say \u201cawakening.\u201d If I had only know then what I know now, I would have treated that first waking with more respect. I would have cherished it more.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, how only in hindsight can we truly appreciate the deep, meaningful importance of things, after they\u2019re long gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postaday for January 4th: First! Tell us about your first day at something \u2014 your first day of school, first day of work, first day living on your own, first day blogging, first day as a parent, whatever. The first time I woke up on May the 5th, 2014, was at about 12:03 AM. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/only-in-hindsight-can-we-appreciate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only In Hindsight Can We Appreciate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[78,79,77],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postaday","tag-napping","tag-reddit","tag-sleeping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}