Welcome into this Thursday, July 16 edition of PFT PM.

We are just 11 days away from the return of PFT Live July 27.

Folks are getting antsy.

The folks across the pond are getting very antsy. I try to tell people,

you get the full episodes of PFT PM on YouTube. You don't get the full episodes of PFT Live on YouTube.

You get the full episodes of PFT PM. And I'm torn because it's nice to sleep until I wake up in the morning, which I'm able to do most days.

There is a huge difference, regardless of how many hours you sleep, I believe, between waking up and having your sleep interrupted by whichever alarm pattern you've selected on your phone.

I woke up this morning at 4.30. I was wide awake, got up and went to work.

If my alarm had gone off at 4.30, I would have thrown it through the window.

So that's the one big negative about the alarm going off at 6.30 a.m. every single morning, well, five days a week.

That is a first world problem.

If the worst thing that you have going on is you have an alarm that gets you up at 6.30 a.m. Monday through Friday, things are pretty good.

And one thing I've learned, anytime you're not dealing with the active symptoms of a herniated disc that is pressing on the L4 nerve route, life is pretty good. I do not take for granted the fact that for nearly four weeks now I've been improving and improving,

almost to the point where it's not the first thing I think about when I get out of bed in the

morning, specifically what's going to happen when I put my right leg on the ground?

Is it going to buckle?

Am I going to fall into a hornet's nest?

I still haven't had a nightmare about that.

I probably will now that we're talking about it.

My son and I had that conversation last night, how your dreams get infiltrated by the things you discuss.

So as we were discussing the various things that have popped up in our dreams and have

given us intense agitation during the dream, making me very happy when I wake up and realize

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