SALIVIC/SINUS WATERBOARDING

It's 3:21 AM, Thursday, June 16.

The IDES OF JUNE, as I defined it 2 weeks ago, is today.

I can't sleep, and I'm wondering why.

Possible reasons:
1.  Ate too late.  Nope... not last night.
2.  Anticipation of a call from DT about his deal.  Most likely.
3.  SALIVIC/SINUS WATERBOARDING.  Definitely.  This is a "conition" I have which can happen day or night.  But when it happens at night, I choke, cough and "drown" on a waterfall of sinus drainage, mixed with saliva.  The coughing leads me necessarily sit up in bed and to swear at God between gasps.

I imagine how I'll describe this to Dr. Turando in 2 weeks, when I have my annual physical at Kaiser.  Or IF.

I sleep with my window wide open.  I wonder if my townhouse neighbors can hear me.  Oh well, I suppose they think I'm a smoker or something.  Maybe I have throat cancer that ISN'T caused by smoking.  Who knows?

Anyway, I can't sleep, so my mind is running all over the known cosmos.

Two black holes collided, causing a detectable cosmic ripple in our gravitational waves (this was predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, and only recently proven to be real).  Well, they described it as if we were wobbling slightly on some cosmic jello.

I wonder if our planet will some day be swallowed by a black hole whirlpool, and THAT will be the end of us.

It doesn't appear that that is likely to happen any time soon.

I have a hard time imagining that we're here by chance.... but then, I also have a hard time conceiving of what the cosmos was like billions of years ago.

COSMOS - my all-inclusive term for where we are.  Universe, galaxie, solar system...... all within the Cosmos - for me, anyway.

I can't say "UNIVERSE" because we now have alternate universes to think about.

So that's that.