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It’s 5:30 am. How much steel are we importing?

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I'm in the DOU, the Definitive Observation Unit, which means I'm being observed by a lot of nurses. However, since I'm untethered from all the usual machines that go beep there's nothing much to observe except for the blood pressure readings they take every four hours. And you know what? It's surprisingly pleasant to be in the hospital when you aren't sick and aren't hooked up constantly to a bunch of machines.

(I do have a heart monitor, but it's portable and I just stick it in my pocket.)

In any case, I got my first dose of chemo last night around 6 pm, which means I also got my first dose of dex at 6 pm. It takes about 10-12 hours to take effect, so I actually got a few hours of sleep before waking up at 5 am.

5 am! What am I supposed to do at 5 am? There's no news yet, and even the day's statistical releases are mostly still a few hours away. However, the Census Bureau is kind enough to release their summary of steel imports at 5:30 am (Pacific time), so perhaps you'd like to know a little bit about the current state of US steel imports?

No? Tough luck. Here it is:

UPDATE: Bastards. At the last second they moved the release time to 7 am. So I have nothing for you. I suspect dirty tricks from the Deep State.

10 thoughts on “It’s 5:30 am. How much steel are we importing?”

  1. zic

    5 a.m. in Cali is the work day in NYC and Boston, and nearly lunch time for a farmer in Maine.

    There's plenty of news, it's just on the other coast.

    I'm glad you're untethered but still closely hooked up to reality.

    1. Ken Rhodes

      Not to mention, there's a significant amount of news across the pond you can read long before 5:00 am Pacific Time:

      BBC News
      Le Monde
      Der Spiegel
      TASS

      Ever one of those has an English language website for us Colonials.

  2. golack

    Evil Dex??? Now the nurses will get to see snarky Kevin.
    😉

    I hope it all goes well, and glad to see you're keeping yourself entertained and entertaining us too.

  3. cld

    For some reason I've been going to bed really early in recent months and waking up really early, and I seem to like it. This is all inexplicable to me.

    1. MikeTheMathGuy

      I'm a night owl, but when the kids were small I was forced to switch to early-to-bed-early-to-rise. I found I really appreciated mornings, when the day was young and things were quiet. Then once circumstances changed, I went right back to my late-night ways (and don't regret it at all).

    2. IncorrigibleTroll

      That happened to me as soon as I hit my early 40s. It was sudden too, like a switch flipped. Aging largely seems to be a process of becoming a stranger to oneself.

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