Strategic planning

I was out walking my dog this evening. We've had this dog ofr 12 years. She's a Welsh Corgi and very cute. She does enough annoying stuff (mostly barking and occasionally peeing indoors) that I don't LOOOVVVEEE her, but she's okay, and it's dawned on me that the only time I really see my neighbors is when I walk the dog. In fact, when we had our neighborhood Hanukkah party, I said to someone, "It's nice to see you indoors."

So tonight I'm out walking her and my next door neighbor is out with his dog. And he asks me if I'm going to watch the eclipse of the moon. Now I'm crazy about eclipses. Last time there was one I watched almost the whole thing. They're almost as much fun as meteor showers and much less frequent. So I say that I'd like to but it's at 3:00 in the morning, so I'm not sure if I should set my alarm or if I should just hope I get up. And he says he figures if he gets up to go to the bathroom around that time that he'll come outside.

I really don't want to go outside and see my neighbor going to the bathroom, but I'm not sure that's what he means. He may mean that he'll go to the bathroom in the bathroom and then go outside. So I started thinking, maybe I'll just drink lots and lots of water before I go to bed and then maybe Mother Nature's alarm clock will get me up at the right time. I wonder if that will work? Worth a try, I suppose.