no. i haven’t lost mine despite what some of you think.

the pic above is the view from my living room at high tide.

when i was in college my roommate and i used to keep a bag of marbles in the freezer.

we each ahd a water bed, and a hard time forcing ourselves out of bed for class. so we kept marbles in the freezer.

it was like a really bad game. if the other was sound asleep and his alarm was going off, it was marble time! that meant that you would go to the freezer and retrieve those ice cold little bastards, and open your roomy’s door. you’d give them a chance to hit the alarm and get up. failure to do so resulted in bad things.

all you’d do is dump the bag of marbles in bed. into that nice warm waterbed. form fitting water bed.

and those little icy bastards would roll right up next to you. all 50 of them! and immediately, you’d roll away! and those little bastards would stay right with you!

the only way to get rid of them was to get OUT of the bed.

there was a time when i could just hear the bag of marbles being shaken and i would leap out of bed.

it’s 5 am, and i’m going to bed. i’m getting up at 9.