I had a hard time being especially worried about the big storm that was coming to New Jersey.

And at least thus far, I have indeed survived the big storm that came to New Jersey.

It’s hard, right?

Because, you know, sometimes you hear about these storm warnings and you know you have to take action, you prepare.

Maybe you’re in the basement, maybe you’re tying things down.

And other times it’s like, man, are they crying wolf?

This is how some of the big disasters in the U.S.

have happened, right?

Like, we cry wolf too many times about storms that don’t materialize.

But this one, you know, people were reasonably concerned about crazy winds and crazy storms.

I’m back from yelling at my dog, who you can hear barking if you replay the previous moments.

Anyway, I scolded him.

I didn’t yell.

I didn’t raise my voice.

Anyway, the storm was insane here for us.

My power walls were ready.

They had fully charged up in case of anything.

Power walls are incredibly stupid.

So thank you once again, Elon, because you can’t tell them going to storm mode.

You have to wait for them to go on the Internet themselves and decide that there’s a storm mode.

That’s stupid.

You should be able to manually tell them, hey, I’m aware of a storm, so please start preparing.

And that means that instead of feeding your house some of the power from the grid or from their battery, they just store it all up.

They fill themselves up from the grid so that if you do lose power, they’re ready to go.

Anyway, we never lost power, so it wasn’t a problem for us this time around.

We saw some schools were having delayed openings, but my kids’ schools were not.

My kids’ schools also love to make their decisions at the last minute.

And by last minute, I mean they will typically make the call between 5 and 5.30 in the morning if they’re going to have a delayed opening or close.

So we told the older two, hey, you’re on your own.

We’re not waking up early enough to find out.

If they call my home phone, we don’t have a home phone, so it goes to an email.

If they call my cell phone, my cell phones do not disturb.

I am not going to know if there’s a delay.

At six o’clock, as I so often do, I heard Liam’s alarm going off.

Liam’s alarm is set to deafeningly loud electro-pop covers of Christmas songs, which is one of the Amazon Echo alarm settings.

It’s the one he uses the most because it’s the one that has the most luck waking him up, although it still often doesn’t wake him up.

But it woke me up.

It’s not even my day to wake up with Liam, but I could hear it across the house in my room.

So I checked my phone first to see, hey, are the schools on?

And there is a voicemail from the school, from Liam’s school.

And it says that Liam’s school is closed because it doesn’t have power.

So I trudge, eyes mostly closed, eyes at half mast, let’s say.

I trudge across the house.

I go to Liam’s room and I turn off his alarm and he’s just starting to wake up from it because Sierra’s thrown on his lights in an effort to help.

And I say, forget it.

Go back to sleep.

You don’t have school.

And Liam goes, yes.

And like the loudest voice, like the biggest bassiest Liam voice.

He goes, yes.

It was insane.

And then he instantly went back to sleep.

Sierra’s like, we don’t have school.

I’m like, no, no, you do have school.

Liam doesn’t have school.

So you can imagine how much he’d look to you like that.

Liam got the day off and they didn’t.

Of course, at some point, Liam’s going to have to make that day up and they won’t.

So it’ll all bounce out.

But yeah, Liam has recently been very tired.

He started medication recently for Crohn’s.

He’s getting his injections of Humira.

I gave him one.

Very exciting.

When they tell you to use a dart-like motion to, you know, inject the skin with the syringe, that’s fun.

But so he has been wiped out.

You know, he slept for 12 hours, Friday to Saturday.

He slept for 12 hours, Saturday to Sunday.

And then he was falling asleep Sunday throughout the day.

Like we get in the car and he’d fall asleep.

And he was tired clearly on Monday and tired a bit yesterday.

And then, you know, when he got to go back to sleep this morning, he ended up sleeping until 1045.

So that’d been from 9 PM last night to about 1045 this morning.

That’s a lot of sleep.

And, you know, we had checked in with the doctors saying, Hey, he’s sleeping a ton.

Is that normal after your first couple doses of Humira?

And the doctor says, Nope, that doesn’t sound like he maybe has like a virus that that’s the only symptom of, but we also had joined, you know, parents of kids with Crohn’s Facebook groups or whatever, or parents of kids taking Humira.

And we asked there, Hey, is this, and everybody’s like, Oh yeah.

When my kid had the first couple doses, they slept way more than usual.

And then after a couple doses, their bodies leveled it out.

So I’m going to go with the parents and not with the doctor on this one, because, uh, I don’t know, because that’s my choice anyway.

Uh, that’s today’s episode.

Say for the song, nobody has said anything about any of these songs, so maybe you’re all skipping them.

I don’t know, but, uh, it’s fun to promote a thing.

Uh, last time you heard the true story of my sibling’s bus, this time you’re going to hear blast off.

Um, this is, uh, I guess also in the transportation vibe, but not part of that transportation trio.

This is a song about blasting off into space.

It joins other, uh, Lehman like songs like on my way to Mars about space travel.

So here is a snippet from blast off.

Happy Wednesday.

So alive this is gonna be so much fun.

I’m blasting off to the moon.

So glad that I’ll be there soon.

In case you forgot, I’m an astronaut, so I’m singing this happy tune.

Lex