You Haven't Heard Anything About a Beef Shortage, Have You?

I thought I was suffering from insomnia early this morning, but I must have been dreaming.
When the alarm went off, I was thinking that I had been awake since 3:45 am, but then I realized that if that were true, then I had spent the last two hours cutting up meat with a chainsaw to satisfy the requirements of a new rationing scheme.