The Mandelbear's Musings

06:12 am - Note to self

Hey, Self!

Waking up at 4am for snuggles and sex certainly helps her get back to sleep... Maybe plan on a nap after lunch?

06:45 am - Facehugger: 4th night

Woke up somewhere around 2:30 or 3:00 and could not get back to sleep. Got out of bed around 4:00, read LJ, wrote comments, did some other stuff on the computer, tried again at 5:30. No go. Gave up at ~6:15.

I mean, it would be really nice if I could survive on 3 hours' sleep every night. I just don't believe it.

09:27 am - Night of the living dead

I did not have a good night last night: straps, wires, and tubes are not conducive to sleep. Last night was my night for the sleep apnea test; they give you a gadget to wear that straps on and includes two strain-gauge bands, a tube going up to your nose, and an oxymetry sensor that clips onto a finger. They really prefer 5 hours worth of sensing; they'll be lucky if they got four. I think I finally got to sleep around 2:30, after taking a flexeril at 2:00. After trying the couch -- the flower_cat was wakeful for different reasons.

Tried adding niacin and B12 supplements to my daily pill salad. The recent tests for those were in the normal range, but I figure it's worth seeing whether they help the neuropathy and triglycerides anyway. I'd forgotten about the facial flushing effect from niacin -- impressive.

10:28 pm - Long day

In spite of getting to bed after midnight last night, I got up at my usual 6am. I've been on my feet most of the afternoon at our in-house conference. (It was, and is, fantastic, but mostly in ways I can't talk about without having to kill you.) Managed to unload a few of my personal hacker/songwriter cards as well -- the ones with the album preorder URL on them.

I am going to take a nice relaxing hot bath, hope I don't fall asleep in the tub, and decant myself into bed. G'night.

03:26 am - blink

Went to bed 11:30ish, and woke up at some ungodly hour with my head full of Perl, forms, and file formats. Finally gave it up around 5:30, read LJ for a while, and tried (again unsuccessfully) to get back to sleep. There will be coffee soon, and then I'll go walk with Mom while she walks the dog.

Current Mood: awake

08:26 pm - Back in the workday groove, more or less

For the first time in several years, my practice of keeping a good shirt at work paid off -- it rained while I was out for my lunchtime walk. I had just decided to turn back because the weather suddenly seemed cold and threatening when it started. By the time I got back indoors, about 15 minutes later, my shirt was soaked. Fortunately I'd worn my hat.

Backing up to the morning, I managed to turn off my alarm last night (it's a new alarm clock, and I'm not quite familiar with its controls yet). As a result I woke up at about 7:20. Fortunately I was able to get the kids out of bed and ready to go in 20 minutes, about half the usual time. Contrats to the chaoswolf and super_star_girl. But this is why I need you to learn to wake up to your own alarm clocks.

To top it off, I only had one mug of coffee instead of my usual three, so I got to work with far too much blood in my caffeine stream. Fortunately my two Monday meetings and catching up on a week's worth of mail and web reading didn't require more than a couple of functioning neurons.