Turtle Power

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I got some cds in the mail yesterday: Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch, John Cage: Works for Percussion, and Nurse with Wound: Funeral Music for Perez Prado. After work Mary Beth and I went over to Overton Park and did a short walk in the old forest following by hanging around the pond and looking at the turtles. Since at least the last time we'd been there, we'd noticed that usually when there are smaller turtles swimming around, when we stop to look at them, a bigger turtle will move over closer to us like it's protecting the younger ones. It seems like that's what's going on and it's a nice story. At night my neck was hurting and I got a small bout of insomnia and I just couldn't go to sleep for a few hours. I "slept in" a little this morning but still didn't get a full night's sleep (though not terribly short of it) and hopefully I'll be able to catch up next time. At least my neck already doesn't feel as bad as it did last night.