What's the 1st thing U do when U get up in the AM?

BarbBinder  wrote Reach for my iPhone and check the news to see what he's done now. (Guess I qualify for the 12-step program.)

  That _really_ made me laugh out loud.  In fact I'm still laughing as I type this.

I guess I had better play after commenting on Barb's post.

1. Put the kettle on.
2. Feed the cats if my wife has not already done so.
3. Take a bunch of pain killers .
4. Put the heater on in the bathroom — I hesitate to say it is cold here right now with some of you living in Colorado, and Benjamin in Cedar Rapids where it gets properly cold, but I guess it is what you are used to.
5. Drink tea while reading cable news.  (CNN, Washington Post, Politico, BBC, Bipartisan Report — I keep trying to stop looking at the last one because it so over the top, but even after deleting the bookmark, I keep going to find it again.)
6. Eat breakfast I made the evening before of an orange, Brazil nuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds, dates and cereal.
7. By this time I am starting to come out of the withdrawal fog that comes with having to take a lot of pain killers.  I hate mornings because of this.
8. Check the forums to see if Dave has left me any interesting threads to answer. 
9. Shower, dress, and on with my day.  Today I am off to the Menz Shed to carry on with a big metal stand for our sheet metal machine.  I love being able to use the machine tools again, although my welding is not what it used to be because of poor eyesight and shaky hands.  But that's what they invented angle grinders for (cleaning up duck poo welds).