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[rejectomorph]

The woodpecker that plays the timbale tree is back this morning. I can't see which tree it is, but I'm thinking it must be one of the oaks to the west. The sound is quite loud, and I find it pleasing. Woodpecker music is one of my favorite things about living in a woody area. They are most active this time of day, so I heard less of them back in the days when I was still getting to sleep before dawn. They are compensation for my messed-up sleep schedule, I guess.

Speaking of which- I had another unintentional nap of about an hour's length around midnight, and now I'm up way too late. I think I'll have to get some sort of implants in my brain before I can regain anything resembling a regular sleep schedule. Feh.

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[whiteboyhalf.livejournal.com]

Timbales are harder than they look!

It makes sense that a woodpecker would peck at oak; my assistant ACADEC coach showed me this stress test performed on different types of wood, and the results were shocking: the relatively "hard" woods like oak, maple, and birch were very weak. Things like Rosewood and Tigerwood are super-strong. To put a hole in it, you need a pnumatic drill!

Have you tried jogging? Or just walking a lot?

[rejectomorph]

I used to walk quite a bit, even though the area is not especially pleasant for that (narrow roads without sidewalks, crazy old drivers, no streetlights at all for night walking.) I've gotten a lot busier in the last couple of years, and my schedule being off makes it even more difficult to find the daylight time to get out for a walk. Once I've gotten out of the habit of something, it's very difficult to get it back.


There's one woodpecker in the neighborhood who sometimes spends several minutes pecking on mailbox up the street from my house. I don't know if this woodpecker is merely stupid, or crazy, or if it just really enjoys making the loud noise that pecking on a metal mailbox creates.