Out of The PIT

I have been having some terrible sleep of late. I'm not sure exactly what is the cause yet, but I have been going to bed at a fairly good hour (before 2300), and I usually wake up before my alarm goes off at 0630. So I should be getting close to eight hours of sleep no? Even seven hours should be pretty good, but I'm worried that my quality of sleep is what's keeping me un-asleep at night. Normally in the morning I have no recollection of the night before, so I assume that I had a normal sleep, except that I feel exhausted. That doesn't make sense. Last night I tried adjusting my pillow higher, to see what affect it will have on my sleep. Well, I do remember last night. I woke up several times in the middle of the night only to fall right back to sleep again. I wonder if this is sleep apnea. With the higher pillow lifting my head at a higher angle, it may block my airway enough to cause me to stop breathing and wake up enough to notice that I've woken up. Prior ni...

I took the bus to work today. It was a fairly uneventful experience. It did, however, take a lot longer to travel by bus than by car. Over twice as long in fact as it took me an hour to make it door to door taking transit when normally it would take me twenty to thirty minutes. All of this just to save a bit of gas. Speaking of gasoline, I think those Saudi princes are being fairly shrewd to allow oil prices to drop this much and stay this low for so long. If I were them, I would have done the same thing: flood the market, let the once profitable companies cash starve and possibly go bankrupt, pick up the pieces, turn off the taps, and profit some more, now with even more control over oil reserves.

I finished watching The Prisoner . I can see how it became such an iconic show, and even despite the dated effects, and strange science, many of the concepts of individuality, indoctrination, paranoia, free thought and free speech were still quite interesting to explore.

AI sent me a link for a video of some guy who set up an oscilloscope to play Quake . A week later, I saw a video link from The Weather Network showing earthquakes from the past ten years .

Happy new year to all of you who celebrate that sort of stuff. We had a New Year's Eve party and a cottage trip planned for the new year but things came up and MJNL's family had to scramble to get things organized and prepared for next week. We did have one day of games and cards though, but the rest of the weekend will be spent preparing and organizing before we all get back to the grind..