I’ve recently been waking up in the middle of the night with a rather uncomfortable and often painful sensation across the top of my tummy. Not nice.
When this happens, there’s no way I can get back to sleep so I get up and hack away at the computer or watch a little TV. The first couple of times it happened it lasted about an hour. More recently it’s been keeping me awake for several hours at a time.
Unfortunately last night was one of the nights that it happened. I went to bed around 9:00 p.m. to catch up on the sleep I lost on Monday night when the same thing happened. Around 1:20 a.m. I woke up with the pain starting to build. I took a few indigestion tablets but the pain just laughed at them. The pain finally eased off enough for me to sleep around 5:00 a.m. – about an hour before I needed to get up for work.
The night wasn’t a total loss. Even though I’m not a big fan of westerns I started watching a 1952 movie called The Half-Breed. Amazing how politically incorrect it was.
Robert Young (pictured) played the hero who saved the town and brought peace between the Indians and the town folk. It was quite a reasonable movie for something stuck on at 3:00 in the morning.
It was certainly better than watching a half hour advertisement for a new ab workout or Victoria Principal’s face cream. Even Cindy Crawford was getting into the act with half an hour or so of flogging a cream that will stop your skin ageing. Do people seriously watch this stuff? Does anybody really buy the stuff they’re pedalling? I guess they must or they wouldn’t keep advertising.
One of the funniest long play advertisements was for a new revolution in sunglasses. By the sounds of it they will not only protect your eyes but give your life complete fulfilment. Yeck.
Also on the complete fulfilment bandwagon was Creflo Dollar who was preaching all kinds of stuff that I’ve never seen in any Bible. Apparently when he was impatient to get home one night in a storm, God allowed his private jet to land safely on his runway. Wonderful. We wouldn’t want Creflo to be inconvenienced now would we? Who truly believes this stuff?
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Sorry to hear about your belly complaint. I hope it sorts itself out.
First off: GO SEE A DOCTOR!!! You can be breathalised for an ulcer now, totally painless, and given antibiotics to fix it. If it’s not an ulcer, SEE FIRST INSTRUCTION!!! Crumbs.
Next off: I’m 99.7% certain that Jesus also loves slick TV evangelists with dodgy theology. He probably helped him land his plane. Peace 🙂
I know all about those shows that are on in the early hours of the morning, thats usually around the time that I’m up giving Kezi her bottle! It’s really annoying when all that’s on are those ads, they go on forever!
Hey Quirkie, I am considering a visit to a doctor. 🙂 I also have a ganglion which needs looking at so it’ll be worth a quick visit.
Yes, I’m sure God loves Creflo and all his friends and that he did help guide that plane in. I just get a little tired of people pushing a theology that says we should follow God for what we can get out of it. I know that all of us are selfish but it irks me when God is made out to be some kind of cosmic Santa Claus. (Maybe that’s worth a post sometime.)
I don’t know about you, but I’m totally in it for what I can get out of it 🙂 I just don’t think those things are material.
Except for when they are. “Every good and perfect gift is from above…”