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# The Scrambler
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5363/
- Published: 2007-03-07T12:37:38.000Z
- Updated: 2007-03-07T12:37:38.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

I'm scrambling this morning. Little Tess (though I'd prefer to use a different adjective for her right now) won't stop crying and screaming: in our bed, at the foot of our bed, in her crib, in her bed. She doesn't care. She just cries all night. I might as well have [sleep apnea](http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/sleepapne1/a/sleepapnea.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). At 2:30 a.m., I bailed out and set up camp in my basement study: quilt for cushioning, blanket, two pillows from my bed, and my cell phone's alarm clock function set. I got up at the last second this morning, then saw my town got hit unexpectedly with (I'm guessing) five inches of snow, so I was out shoveling.

Only one item this morning:[My most-recent blog column is online at *The Register*](http://ncregister.com/site/article/2030/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) (registration required). It's about virility in the blogosphere. From the intro:

> When you were a teenager, did you have a non-Bible 'bible' – a book you read and re-read, carried around with you, swore held the key to the universe if only more people would listen to what its author said?

> Maybe your dog-eared oracle was *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance* or *Siddhartha* or *Catcher in the Rye* or *On the Road*. Those books, perennial coming-of-age favorites to this day, were a bit too weighty for me.

> My teenage bible was a book of pictures and anecdotes called *The Manly Handbook*. Who made America? “Real men,” it said, “like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Teddy Roosevelt and Duke Wayne.”

> Do you want to read manly books? Buy Mickey Spillane novels. Manly movies? Watch *Dirty Harry*, *Death Wish*, *Hercules and the Captive Women* and anything with John Wayne. Looking for manly recreation? “Kick down all the doors in your house,” advised *The Manly Handbook*, and “take a midnight stroll through the Bronx unarmed.” Manly occupation? Rodeo rider, bounty hunter, bartender, drill sergeant, mercenary, truck driver.