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dolariI've decided that my sleep schedule is now completely wonky and screwy and I have NO idea what to do about it.Wednesday Night/Thursday morning, I sat down on the couch to watch TV at 4AM (BIG O!) and the next thing I knew it was 8AM. This was not a good thing, considering I've already been sleep 12 hours a night, and had jsut gotten up at 9PM. So I decided - well, I'm up and it's 8AM. I think I'll just try to keep Daily Hours.
Thursday I wasn't feeling too hot, I had a low grade fever, and lots and lots and lots of coughing and chest pains. I'd been coughing for a few days, but the chest pain was new, and hurt when I breathed. I figured, what the heck...took a couple of Cold-Eze and toughed it out. I ended up cleaning my entire room, and...well...it took 8 hours and became an archeological dig. Pictures to Come.
Dean came home at 9PM, and ordered Pizza. This was my death knell. After eating a few slices of Really Dense Bread, I conked out at 11PM. Woke up Friday morning at 7AM, again, I did my best to keep daylight hours.
My tax return came in, so I frantically paid all these over due bills, gave Dean $100 (not what I owe him, but it's something!) I also splurged a bit. I went to Altex and picked up a new DVD burner to replace the DVD Burner which was going out. I've always had problems with the 2003-era burner, where it just hated reading disks, and would occasionally decide it wasn't going to burn a disc correctly with a "Splatter" pattern of areas not burned (Pictures to Come). So now I have a new burner, that hates all my other drives.
I have two DVD-drives, one is an old 1999-era DVD-ROM drive (which read discs better than that 2003 one). If I put the new burner in tandem with that 1999 drive, the 2006 drive simply refuses to work. It won't read anything at all you put in it. I thought it was the drive, so I had it replaced. Again, the exact same problem. So I put the drive in by itself, and it worked fine. Then I plugged in the defective 2003 drive...and the 2006 disk sorta worked fine. Now it read disks, but if both drives were reading disks at the same time, the 2006 drive took a really nasty performance hit. So, considering I won't use the secondary drive much (it's usually used when the first drive is showing a movie, or playing music and I need a quick file or two off another CD), the defective drive is back in the system as the hardly-ever-used drive.
Also, I picked up a new 200GB drive. The 80GB drive that I used ONLY to hold a copy of the DVD backups no longer had any room on it (19 DVDs of backups will do that to you). I took the 80GB Backup Drive, clones it over to the 200GB drive, and then took the old 80GB Operating System drive, and cloned that on the 80GB Backup Drve (For three years, that hard drive was used for a few hours every month, so it's got a LOT of life left on it). The old 80GB drive will have a monthly clone of the new 80GB drive, so you'll still here me complain that my OS hosed, but now I'll only need a quick 20 Minute disk copy to get my system back. As a matter of fact, that's going on right now, since the Ultra DMA driver I thought was necessary hosed my OS.
Speaking of Ultra DMA, when I made my computer back in 2003, it came with a special cable that I didn't pay any attention to. I just plugged it in and used it. Eventually, from mving drives around it fell apart, and I reaplaced it with a regular cable. No harm no foul. I also got another Ultra DMA cable, and while I cloned the 80GB Backup drive the first time, the clock said it would take about 2 hours. No biggie...I'll do something else while I.....hey....I have this Super Cable, don't I? I plug it in....and the 2 hour copy becomes a 20 minute copy.
Wow, imagine all the time I would have saved moving stuff around if I'd just gone out and spent $3 for that Cable of Niceness?
I finally got online for the first time in a long time, and talked with Emily all afternoon, whi I hadn't talked to all night because of the sleep problems. She decided to have a nap at 5PM, I sat down to watch the news....and then it was 10PM. I had passed out again. :P
I ended up all night unpacking my RAR backups to the 200GB drive. Half that drive is now full. :) But no more 4 hour waiting period to unpack all my files. I finally got tired at 6AM fell asleep...and woke up at Noon when a @#(%&@#% MULCHER parked under my window and took the next few HOURS to crash cars in my sleep.
I've now decided until I get a job, I'm just gonna sleep when I'm tired, and wake up whenever. You can't fight the body, the body will do what it wants. I'll worry about scheduled hours when I get scehduled hours.
Thursday I wasn't feeling too hot, I had a low grade fever, and lots and lots and lots of coughing and chest pains. I'd been coughing for a few days, but the chest pain was new, and hurt when I breathed. I figured, what the heck...took a couple of Cold-Eze and toughed it out. I ended up cleaning my entire room, and...well...it took 8 hours and became an archeological dig. Pictures to Come.
Dean came home at 9PM, and ordered Pizza. This was my death knell. After eating a few slices of Really Dense Bread, I conked out at 11PM. Woke up Friday morning at 7AM, again, I did my best to keep daylight hours.
My tax return came in, so I frantically paid all these over due bills, gave Dean $100 (not what I owe him, but it's something!) I also splurged a bit. I went to Altex and picked up a new DVD burner to replace the DVD Burner which was going out. I've always had problems with the 2003-era burner, where it just hated reading disks, and would occasionally decide it wasn't going to burn a disc correctly with a "Splatter" pattern of areas not burned (Pictures to Come). So now I have a new burner, that hates all my other drives.
I have two DVD-drives, one is an old 1999-era DVD-ROM drive (which read discs better than that 2003 one). If I put the new burner in tandem with that 1999 drive, the 2006 drive simply refuses to work. It won't read anything at all you put in it. I thought it was the drive, so I had it replaced. Again, the exact same problem. So I put the drive in by itself, and it worked fine. Then I plugged in the defective 2003 drive...and the 2006 disk sorta worked fine. Now it read disks, but if both drives were reading disks at the same time, the 2006 drive took a really nasty performance hit. So, considering I won't use the secondary drive much (it's usually used when the first drive is showing a movie, or playing music and I need a quick file or two off another CD), the defective drive is back in the system as the hardly-ever-used drive.
Also, I picked up a new 200GB drive. The 80GB drive that I used ONLY to hold a copy of the DVD backups no longer had any room on it (19 DVDs of backups will do that to you). I took the 80GB Backup Drive, clones it over to the 200GB drive, and then took the old 80GB Operating System drive, and cloned that on the 80GB Backup Drve (For three years, that hard drive was used for a few hours every month, so it's got a LOT of life left on it). The old 80GB drive will have a monthly clone of the new 80GB drive, so you'll still here me complain that my OS hosed, but now I'll only need a quick 20 Minute disk copy to get my system back. As a matter of fact, that's going on right now, since the Ultra DMA driver I thought was necessary hosed my OS.
Speaking of Ultra DMA, when I made my computer back in 2003, it came with a special cable that I didn't pay any attention to. I just plugged it in and used it. Eventually, from mving drives around it fell apart, and I reaplaced it with a regular cable. No harm no foul. I also got another Ultra DMA cable, and while I cloned the 80GB Backup drive the first time, the clock said it would take about 2 hours. No biggie...I'll do something else while I.....hey....I have this Super Cable, don't I? I plug it in....and the 2 hour copy becomes a 20 minute copy.
Wow, imagine all the time I would have saved moving stuff around if I'd just gone out and spent $3 for that Cable of Niceness?
I finally got online for the first time in a long time, and talked with Emily all afternoon, whi I hadn't talked to all night because of the sleep problems. She decided to have a nap at 5PM, I sat down to watch the news....and then it was 10PM. I had passed out again. :P
I ended up all night unpacking my RAR backups to the 200GB drive. Half that drive is now full. :) But no more 4 hour waiting period to unpack all my files. I finally got tired at 6AM fell asleep...and woke up at Noon when a @#(%&@#% MULCHER parked under my window and took the next few HOURS to crash cars in my sleep.
I've now decided until I get a job, I'm just gonna sleep when I'm tired, and wake up whenever. You can't fight the body, the body will do what it wants. I'll worry about scheduled hours when I get scehduled hours.
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Date: 2006-02-05 03:30 am (UTC)On the "Why it's not entrapment" page: "In many cases, the decoy is the first to bring up the subject of sex." 0.o
Kind of defeats the purpose of the page. I haven't checked perverted-justice to see if they've posted the chatlogs yet.
(love your comics <3)
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:29 pm (UTC)And then there was the guy who got caught twice....
Thanks for reading!
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Date: 2006-02-05 12:09 pm (UTC)Slepp Peoblems
Date: 2006-02-05 09:42 pm (UTC)Normally, when I have sleep problems, and insomnia, it means that either I have an unresolved problem, or that it's a full moon. Then again I often "nod off" reading in the backyard while playing with my dog, especially on warm days.