{"id":8871,"date":"2014-07-28T11:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/?p=8871"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:44:59","slug":"beginning-of-the-end-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2014\/07\/28\/beginning-of-the-end-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of the End"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s Monday again. And not only the first Monday I’ve had to work since back in June, but also the start of a week of “support” duty for me. Normally this would be pretty depressing (and I’m not particularly thrilled about it), but this is a better Monday than most, since this is the start of the last week of my current life. So, hell, what’s one lousy week to get through?<\/p>\n

Still, I’m quite exhausted today. But them I’m exhausted pretty much every day, because I don’t sleep for shit at night. And of course we all know that a study a few years back linked lack of sleep to an “early death.” There’s a thought that’ll keep you awake at night.<\/p>\n

And now today there’s another study that says if you have a purpose in life, you’ll live longer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, people with a sense of purpose had a 15 percent lower risk of death, compared with those who said they were more or less aimless.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not exactly good news for those of us wandering aimlessly through life because we can’t sleep. Oh well, as long as they don’t come out with a study that guys with a big beer belly and chronically high blood pressure are more likely to have a stroke or a heart attack.<\/p>\n

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Since the Ebola’s coming to get us all, I guess it doesn’t really matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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