awake in the night

Well, it's 3 am and the dog besides my bed decides to bark like a crazy dog when a cable for my tv I had run temp through the house ( for a experiment ) fell down in the kitchen because the duct tape holding it to the wall turned loose. So 15 minutes later finds me in my boxers outside in the back yard with the dog who now needs to relieve herself but first has to hunt for the correct spot to do it at like a kid hunting for Easter eggs. It's 3 am and very foggy, street light has a halo glow around it, the blinking red light atop the tall antenna in the distance is not as bright and could be Rudolph's nose as he flies around. It is very warm and sticky even at this hour so I sit in the lawn chair to wait her out. Finally she is through and comes to me wanting to play, happy to see me like I have been gone on a trip and just returned home, I think, leave me alone you stupid dog who awoke me from my sleep, then as I think this I lean down to pet her as my heart melts for her ,for all she knows is Love for me , no matter it's the middle of the night and we are in the dark in the yard, she is just happy to be with me. So I pet and talk to her then we both return to our beds, I snuggle to my wife who is still asleep and the puppy dog lays down besides my side of the bed to return to sleep faster than I do. My wife asleep, my dog asleep, I lay awake wanting to sleep but random thoughts run through my head like sand through a hour glass keeping me awake. I lay for 1/2 hour then decide to get up and come upstairs to my personal retreat, my man cave. I check facebook, see where one of my granddaughters was awake a few hours ago but now most likely asleep in her bed while I am awake. She writes about a problem that I can relate to, mainly people taking her stuff, even if she buys it, marks it not to be used  but someone uses it anyway and doesn't replace it, so when you go to get it you can't find it and hunt frantically for it in vain till you realize some low life living in your house stole it from you. I can relate. I hate that, I have sabotaged items before so when the said person gets it, they get more than they bargained for. Do you know that you can put laxatives in all kinds of food and nobody knows till they take effect and they find themselves running trying to make it to the bathroom in time , in vain ? Poopie pants! wait there's more , they cant stay out of the bathroom! they must have caught a bug somewhere, while you try to hold a straight face till you get away from them so you can gut laugh.
 It's going on 4 am, it's dark & quite, I'm in my recliner, dog asleep in my lap. I kick back the recliner in the dark and drift off to sleep.