Hi all, it's just after noon on Tuesday May 31st. I am sitting at my desk at work, thinking about how in 74 hours I'll be done with this job forever. (When you say 'forever' in your mind as you read this please try to make it sound like this: for-ev-AAAAAAHH).
[Intermission]
Ok, it's now 3:20 pm. I had to go do an inventory audit with the corporate auditor that is here from Minnesota. It went ok.
Unfortunately, since it took three hours, now I'm tired and I don't feel like writing so much.
So there it is. A short post...with the end in sight.
Cheers...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 09, 2011
On Dreams and Sleep...
Last night was rough. I felt like I fell asleep soon after laying down but when I woke up I felt tired. That may have to do with the dream I had though.
I dreamt that I was living in New York City, with some roommates. These were people I do not know and have never met, but they were in my dream regardless. One of my roommates had to get up early for work and he needed quiet late at night so he could sleep. I remember going to bed and then waking up when I heard someone in my room. Then I remember getting shot twice in the chest.
I felt my lungs filling up with blood and I couldn't breath. I remember that feeling lasting longer than I thought it should, I was drowning in my own fluids for way longer than it should have taken for me to pass out and die. I called out to my roommates but the only one to hear my pitiful pleas was the noise Nazi roommate.
He just banged on the wall and told me to be quiet.
Then I woke up, and I woke up tired. Every morning around 5:20 something or so, as I'm getting ready, I tell myself the same thing: tonight I'm going to bed earlier. I go to bed at 9pm on most nights and it seems like I'm still super tired either way.
I ask myself if going to bed earlier is really going to fix things anyway. I mean, I get 8 hours of sleep by going to bed at 9pm, but I wake up tired every day. Is going to bed at 8:30 or even 8pm really going to make things better? I kinda doubt it, but I suppose it's worth trying once or twice.
My body just isn't built to get up before 6am. I've noticed on the days where I sleep in later and get up either at 6am or just past 6am, the whole day feels better. I know I'll definitely be getting up at or past 6am after June 17th.
Anyone got a time machine I can borrow?
I dreamt that I was living in New York City, with some roommates. These were people I do not know and have never met, but they were in my dream regardless. One of my roommates had to get up early for work and he needed quiet late at night so he could sleep. I remember going to bed and then waking up when I heard someone in my room. Then I remember getting shot twice in the chest.
I felt my lungs filling up with blood and I couldn't breath. I remember that feeling lasting longer than I thought it should, I was drowning in my own fluids for way longer than it should have taken for me to pass out and die. I called out to my roommates but the only one to hear my pitiful pleas was the noise Nazi roommate.
He just banged on the wall and told me to be quiet.
Then I woke up, and I woke up tired. Every morning around 5:20 something or so, as I'm getting ready, I tell myself the same thing: tonight I'm going to bed earlier. I go to bed at 9pm on most nights and it seems like I'm still super tired either way.
I ask myself if going to bed earlier is really going to fix things anyway. I mean, I get 8 hours of sleep by going to bed at 9pm, but I wake up tired every day. Is going to bed at 8:30 or even 8pm really going to make things better? I kinda doubt it, but I suppose it's worth trying once or twice.
My body just isn't built to get up before 6am. I've noticed on the days where I sleep in later and get up either at 6am or just past 6am, the whole day feels better. I know I'll definitely be getting up at or past 6am after June 17th.
Anyone got a time machine I can borrow?
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Email and the Pre 1970 generation...
What is it about “older” people and forwarding random stories, chain letters, gossip, pointless videos, and sob stories through email?
Am I the only one who has experienced this phenomenon?
There are quite a few older members of my family that "keep in touch" with me via email. I put that phrase in quotes because their definition of keeping in touch is very different from mine. I define it to be sending a message that includes some form of the following:
- A short greeting
- Questions about the well being/life of the person I'm contacting
- A summary of the current events in my own life
- A short farewell
Notice how none of those things are random. No stories about kitchen fires, no Microsoft money making schemes, no video attachments that just may save your life (unless of course these things are part of my life). Nope, nothing like that. Just plain old, "Hi, I'm doing ok, I hope you are too."
See, I get at least three or four of these random forwarded emails from "older" family and friends a week. The craziest part of all this to me is that, if these people picked up a phone (landline or otherwise) and called me, I highly doubt they would spend the entire conversation telling me about some dumb advertisement or infomercial they saw recently. And yet that is almost exactly what they are doing when they send me these emails.
I realize that some of you would say the destructive power of the "send to all" button is perhaps mostly to blame for this problem. I feel that is quite the cop out though. It's the same thing to say that guns are responsible for all the shootings that take place.
Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it!
Does this happen to you too?
Am I the only one who has experienced this phenomenon?
There are quite a few older members of my family that "keep in touch" with me via email. I put that phrase in quotes because their definition of keeping in touch is very different from mine. I define it to be sending a message that includes some form of the following:
- A short greeting
- Questions about the well being/life of the person I'm contacting
- A summary of the current events in my own life
- A short farewell
Notice how none of those things are random. No stories about kitchen fires, no Microsoft money making schemes, no video attachments that just may save your life (unless of course these things are part of my life). Nope, nothing like that. Just plain old, "Hi, I'm doing ok, I hope you are too."
See, I get at least three or four of these random forwarded emails from "older" family and friends a week. The craziest part of all this to me is that, if these people picked up a phone (landline or otherwise) and called me, I highly doubt they would spend the entire conversation telling me about some dumb advertisement or infomercial they saw recently. And yet that is almost exactly what they are doing when they send me these emails.
I realize that some of you would say the destructive power of the "send to all" button is perhaps mostly to blame for this problem. I feel that is quite the cop out though. It's the same thing to say that guns are responsible for all the shootings that take place.
Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it!
Does this happen to you too?
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