No Shame 4:33am

There's no shame being awake at 4:33 am EST since it's that delightful Friday nighty 1:33 am in Californ-i-a and elsewhere, it's afternoon tea and nearly dinner and a hundred other slivers of time, like ripe melon on a plate, little sunny yellow and moony silver slices of time.

Fire up some IRC -- international raging chat -- and say hello to all the buddy pals in all the time zones. I wish whoeever is busy blowing a hole in the ozone would blow a hole instead in these zany time zones. They don't seem worth keeping around for much longer. They are just silly as a concept. We keep walking right over time zones and date lines in our slippers, sneakers, swim fins, slip-ons and spectator pumps. Time zones might as well float like currencies, yen and yawn and dollar and euro and wake-up calls from the front desk. Hotel room phones ringing a world away. Ringing the world awake.