Rant #1,541: Insomniac's Call

I am in the middle of a bout with insomnia, or at least what I call insomnia.

I simply cannot sleep through the night.

My allergies are bad, which is probably causing this malaise, but whatever the case, I have been up for about an hour as I write this, and it is barely 3 a.m. in the morning.

I go to bed without the least bit of a problem. I watched as much of the World Series as I could yesterday--through Curtis Granderson's home run, which put the Mets ahead in a game that would eventually take 14 innings, with the Royals somehow outlasting the Mets--and I slept for about three hours, got up briefly, went back to sleep, and slept about another two hours.

And that is it for me.

I woke up with a bit of a lump in my throat from my allergies, but I feel fine as I type this.

I feel tired, but not enough to go back to sleep.

This past night, I had no nightmares or dreams that I remember, although since this bout with insomnia--which has lasted a week or maybe 10 days or so--I have had some doozy dreams, most of which I can't remember.

One concerned going to the dentist (which I have to do tomorrow after work), being locked up in a room with singer John Mellencamp (?!), and losing my glasses in the batch of different glasses he took out of his pocket.

Think Fred Sanford's glasses draw from "Sanford and Son," and you know what I am talking about.

And by the way, was there a stolen base during the World Series last night?

Taco Bell announced that if and when there is a stolen base during the World Series, it is free breakfast on them.

Simply drive up to your local Taco Bell and you get a free breakfast sandwich when there is a swipe during the championship round.

I haven't checked the box score, but it is something that is good to know.

Too bad one of the teams can't sign up Rickey Henderson, just to get that stolen base each game.

He must be in his late 50s, but I bet he can still steal a base, especially when the incentive is for a Taco Bell breakfast sandwich for fans, and a win for his respective team for the players.

They can afford much more than a breakfast sandwich ... word is that the winners and losers of the World Series will record a record payoff this season, and for some of the younger players, the payoff will be more than their average salaries.

Now back to my insomnia ... what is causing it?

As I said earlier, my allergies have been haywire the past several weeks. The weather is unsettled, and that isn't helping matters.

It is supposed to rain today, but the weather is supposed to be a very un-fall-like 65 or so, and later in the week, it is supposed to hit 70 in my neck of the woods.

That is way too warm for late October.

That must be affecting my sleep and my allergies.

Other than that, I have no idea. Perhaps I should try to go to bed a little later, but I do feel tired by 9:30 or 10 p.m., so I go to sleep.

Maybe I should push it, like I do when the Yankees are in the World Series, and stay up way past my normal bedtime during World Series game nights.

But I simply don't have the rooting interest to do so in this World Series.

I have an idea--let me stay up to see if there is a stolen base in the next game, and I will make it that I cannot go to sleep until that stolen base comes.

Heck, I want that Taco Bell breakfast sandwich.

My luck, the swipe will come in the first inning, or perhaps in the 20th if the game goes that far.

And as I asked before, was there a stolen base in last night's 14-inning contest?

I have no idea, but there was no way I was going to make it to 14 innings waiting for one to happen, either.

Nope, that is not a way to cure my insomnia.

Rickey Henderson, where are you when we need you? Maury Wills?

How about Johnny Damon?