Fireworks and Sleep

I spent last night in Weimar-actually I am still here.

I came over to Weimar to watch fireworks down by the River Ilm, which due to the late setting sun was correspondingly late. The fireworks finally went off at 10:30 and were rather spectacular. It was a substitute for my non-existent Fourth of July. Well, there will be a 4th of July, but not Independence Day.

Overnight I was hunkered down in the living room, sleeping, but I made two critical errors. The first was leaving the windows wide open. This wasn’t a problem at midnight, but it was a problem at 4:30 when a large group of birds decided to have a convention right outside the window. I woke up and because the windows were wide open, I was grateful that the convention was outside the windows, not in the living room.

After the windows were shut, it took me awhile to fall asleep, but I was awakened later when the sun came up. The living room lacks curtains, and I put my head at the end of the living room that the sun hit first. I should have put my head at the other end of the living room.

Ultimately I didn’t get a great deal of sleep last night and I’ve already taken a short nap this morning.