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Thoughts on Not Waking Up at 4:00am

My schedule has changed radically in the past few days.  I feel like I moved to Australia.  I’m upside down. For the first time in 16 years I don’t have to wake up at 4:00am!  It’s as liberating as it is scary.  I really don’t know what to expect, but my body is changing.

Last night was the first night I tossed and turned.  Did you ever just lay there and your mind is working overtime and you’re thinking too much to go to sleep?  I hate that.  Last night was one of those.  It happens to everybody I guess.  I actually got up in the middle of the night and watched TV!  Holy cow!  You know I’m outa whack if I do that!  Let me tell you, 3:00am TV is a wild and whacky wasteland of weirdness.  I actually watched a LaVerne and Shirley marathon.  I’m not kidding.  Lenny and Squiggy were taking their driving tests so they could become truck drivers.  I laughed.  I cried.  I was spellbound.  The character development was superb.  The writing was brilliant.  It eventually put me to sleep.  Maybe I dreamed the whole  thing.

I used to have one eye on the clock, ready to jump out of bed at 4:00am even if I finally fell asleep at 3:39, primed for the three S’s and ready to jump in the car and drive over the Bay Bridge to San Francisco and do the show.  But since I don’t have to do that anymore my entire biological clock is thrown off.  I am befuddled by all this time that I suddenly have on my hands.  This morning, after a fitful sleep, I fired up the computer and dove into the editing of RUBBER SOUL but I just didn’t have my heart in it today.  Maybe tomorrow.  I think it’s going to take a little while to adjust.  My body has been geared to waking up at 4:00am for last 16 years.  Stopping is weird.  I suspect a transitional period will take place, during which I’ll go around the house with a microphone trying to interview the cats and playing Led Zep and making announcements on the backyard sound system.

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23 Responses to "Thoughts on Not Waking Up at 4:00am"

  1. Can’t wait for Rubber Soul! Now get some sleep!

  2. Tom Sawicki says:

    I get up at 3:30 everyday, if I could I would get up at oh maybe 7:00 and get that extra sleep.

  3. Gary Oxley says:

    So get to Australia…..for a holiday mate.

  4. Who’s says you gotta stop, great time to write!

  5. TommyBCool says:

    I know the feeling GK. Been off a year. Still making myself get up as if I’m going to work everyday. Dropped LL a note and he was blown away I could tell. Time to get the band back together? Mission from God and all that?

  6. My cats are always available for interviews. They promise to take your call.

  7. I loved your morning show but now I look forward to your fb posts. Keep them coming…it’s therapy for you but also for me…us!

  8. Greg, I love your posts. I do have a suggestion. Perhaps you should move to the east coast for a bit. You’d be waking up at 7am each day instead of 4am.

  9. Neil Herrick says:

    Your morning show was awesome…BUt YOU out grew them!!! You are ready for a new life!!! Go ..Run, I started to play the guitar @ 50, wanted to at 15. Joan Jett didn’t give up in 1980 when they told her she was finished… DID SHE ???????? !!!!!

  10. Mark White says:

    Plenty of time to write new music with Robert Berry :)

  11. How ’bout a new version of The Breakup Song?
    KFOX and I were together for a sixteen years
    Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
    But now it feels so strange out in the atmospheres…

  12. Weekday mornings just won’t be the same! ;-(

  13. Lisa Cherrie says:

    “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” I eagerly await the announcement of your next reinvention of yourself. I know it will be interesting!

  14. I miss you and Chris in the mornings Greg! Looking forward to your new book and hearing about your next adventure!

  15. Bob Lee says:

    Don’t get TV Land confused with HSN….and think you’re buying Lenny & Squiggy action figures. Many years ago…while in radio…I experienced…on a much smaller scale…what’s happened to you. While driving…I can still hit the post on most classic rock songs. Now while stopped at red lights….thanks to blue tooth technology…folks think I’m talkin’ on the cell phone. Guess this radio thang always stays with ya. On 6 OCT…when you are honored by your peers…”Hold Your Head High’. You are truly a legend, Greg!

  16. mizwelsh says:

    Good thing you stuck with that gig on Oct. 6th in Arizona. Your fans are going to be with you in whatever ventures you choose. You have lords people that care about you.

  17. kidmom3 says:

    Another reason to listen to satellite radio – I loved your show, can’t believe they made this change. I am sure they will go shock rock – guess I’ll have to listen to the news. Hope the future gets better.

  18. tammyreus says:

    Just wanted to say that I think KFOX made a big mistake; you were the best thing they had to offer. You will be fine; I think they will be in trouble. The morning commute just got a whole lot longer!

  19. Archiek says:

    I have been listening to you for most of the 16 years you were at KFUX. I am going to miss you during the morning commute, nothing else to listen to. Probably have to break down and get an iPod. Take care Greg!

  20. FF Buzz says:

    Hey Greg, I was the Firefighter you ran into at Genova Deli in March. I am gonna miss you on the air and I also agree, big mistake! Enjoy your new chapter and above all, enjoy yourself!

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