2 posts tagged “insomnia”

I know it must seem like I only post to complain I'm awake in the middle of the night (morning)... ok, well, so I only post when I'm awake in the middle of the night.

I woke up around 2am with a raging headache. The light from the TV hurt like hell to look at. So I got up and took some Excedrin, laid around on the couch for a bit, and now its somewhat better. Better enough that the laptop screen doesn't hurt. Still feel like crap. Got quite a bit done though. My exciting Friday afternoon/evening went something like this:

Got off work at 3pm, went shopping with Misty. Picked up a couple new shirts. Made it home around 5 or so. Went down the street to fix the neighbor's printing issue (turned out her printer just needed to be power-cycled). Came home and cooked dinner around 6:30. I made porkchops, mashed potatoes, green beans, and crescent rolls. Mmmmmm, quality. After dinner I mowed the front yard and pruned my roses, which are doing excellently this year I might add. Finished outside around 8:30, came in and took a shower. Washed / folded / ironed / put away all the dirty clothes. Well, except for the towels. They're in the dryer. I'll fold them later. Came down and cleaned up the kitchen from dinner. Submitted a patch to the author of Net::DNS::ToolKit so it will build on OSX. By then it was about 11:00 and I was exhausted, so I got into bed and finished Blink, which was an excellent read, highly recommend it.

So, that was my Friday. Had fun shopping with Misty, and got quite a bit done around the house. My Saturday isn't shaping up so well thus far. Luckily I've got nothing to do today except to install a couple more apps on the neighbor's new computer, which won't take long. So I can sleep the day away if I continue to feel like I got run over by something.

When I can't sleep I often pace. Its a habit I developed about fifteen years ago (I figured that out tonight) when my folks were splitting up and I had trouble sleeping. I'd get up in the middle of the night and just wander around thinking about whatever came into my head. Its a habit I've carried on without really giving it much thought.

So I've been up the better part of an hour pacing the house, thinking about everything from how I got started in computers to how I need to paint the corner of that doorframe in the kitchen. Usually after a couple hours the wandering tires me out and I can sleep. My feet hurt so I'm taking a break.

There are all sorts of things I'd like to write down, but none of it seems particularly worth it right now. Most of it is the type of stuff my buddy Micah and I would spend talking about well into the wee hours of the morning when we would wander the parking lot of the Extended Stay in Metairie while we were working that project from Hell in Louisiana.  Random ideas about how things should work, how we were going to code something that would change the world, etc. It seems we never really came up with any decent ideas, or never did anything about the ones we did. It always seems you need X, Y, and Z to get started, and we never could figure out how to get all that together. We never were and still aren't very good businesspeople. We could almost always fix or build whatever you wanted though. Its funny how much I both do and don't miss those days.

Maybe I'll wander downstairs and see if anybody is on Teamspeak. It occurs to me that now that some of our friends live on the west coast, its actually possible they're still up. My Macbook, while awesome, still doesn't talk back.