My long-deserved trip is almost here. Finally, finally, I’m going to go do something for the upcoming weekend. I still have not slept, but feel pretty good today (overall).
I will post details about it once I return. You know I usually do, and usually, (at least I think) it serves as a form of entertainment for at least some of you.
– Have a safe and happy weekend.
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I was bored today, so I took an online IQ test.
I have also administered an IQ test to my (then NINE year old dog. He is now FIFTEEN plus).
Free-IQTest.net – Free IQ Test
Yah? So… what does that mean?
It seems both dog and I are smarter than the average bear.
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the title of this post is a quote from:–Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark.
IF you cake the IQ test, you can OPT OUT of all the personal information questions with the SKIP button.
No Comments Well, I have officially scaled the hill and am now on my way back down. 40 wasn’t TOO bad, and I anticipate marked improvements in the future (now that I am 41).
I was treated by friends (who were kind enough to bring my mother) to dinner at Macaroni Grill. I’ve had cake, twice; once at the restaurant, and once at home. (I am all caked out and there is still half of a small cake left).
I thank you all for your comments, facebook wall posts, and other well wishes.
The birthday LOOT contained countless cards, clothes from my mom (that is what moms do), and a gift that will arrive in the mail early next week.
Tim is draggin’ me out to a (for the time being) undisclosed location next weekend. I’ll report on that once the weekend has passed.
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…because my birthday is on the other side. Tomorrow, friends (and my mother, at some point) will descend on my house. They want to celebrate my birthday with for me. I say “for” me because, well, they are all about having a reason to meet at some restaurant or another and eat. After that, they pass wrapped packages to me and wish me a happy birthday and a good year to come.
I know, I know. That sounds EXTREMELY ungrateful. I am glad to have friends and family that love me enough to make a BIG deal out of the annual celebration commemorating my birth. I appreciate that they want the day to be a happy one. I just don’t feel it’s the huge deal they can make it out to be. I’d be happy with a card and a good wish or two.
Anyway, in the past, I have written some meaningful post or something… but this year…
“I got nothin’,” so you get a b!tchy post, by me, just to get it out there that I don’t see my own birthday as a special occasion. (But at the same time I like a LITTLE attention over it all). Just not so much with the LEVEL these people can make it to be.
I’ll be back after the weekend to write about what occurred and who was involved. I hope it turns out to be a good day.
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I can’t believe it. I managed to sleep last night. I went to bed just after eleven, and slept (waking up a few times, but was able to fall back asleep each time) until 530am… then went back to sleep and woke up at 700am… dozed until 800am – then got out of bed. I have some other stuff to do today, so I did not stay in bed longer than that
The washer part came yesterday, and has been installed. It now works again (yay) so I am catching up to the laundry pile. I need to: Go to the grocery store for: WD40, Speed Stick, Ground Turkey, and fresh basil. I will be making spaghetti for dinner (sans WD40 and Speed Stick, of course). Other than that, so far, I do not have any plans.
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I don’t know about you, but I seem to have a lot of friends who will say, “Hey we should all go do [insert some type of event here] this weekend! I’ll call you with details.” And then… the weekend comes. The weekend goes. Nobody makes a move.
On many occasions, I have actually felt like doing [insert some type of event here], I have called them and made all the plans and then we all go.
On a few occasions, one of them will make all the calls, plan everything and then we all go. Most often, nobody bothers, nobody goes.
Thursday night, at Trivia, one of them said, “Hey, we should all go out and do something this weekend!”
But… nobody has made any calls, nobody has any ideas of what we might go do IF we do anything, and frankly, I have stuff that needs to get done.
So, I am going to go start doing all of this stuff that needs to get done, and once I am knee deep in the sh– of doing it all… one of them will suddenly remember that they had wanted to go do [insert some type of event here].
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Last night, I started a load of laundry. Not long after I started the machine, my daughter comes running through the den, hollering, “Towel-towel-towel-towel!!!”
She had stopped the machine cycle, because the machine had decided to start pouring water onto the floor. I checked the inside of the washer to see how full it was. Most of the water apparently was now on the floor. I flipped the breaker, unplugged the machine, and tilted it backwards, trying to peer beneath it for a disconnected or leaking hose; hoping that if there was one, it would be visible.
Seeing nothing, I (temporarily) gave up and began cleaning up the mess the machine had made. At some point (sometime this weekend), I am going to have to take the machine apart, and try to locate the leak. I’ve repaired a machine before; years ago, but that was for a problem with the water NOT draining out before the rinse and spin cycle.
That turned out to simply be a small hose that was no longer connected to the back of the control dial. Sadly, that model machine had to have the back panel removed, and dig through some wiring and many hoses to find. That was the first attempt I had ever made at repairing an appliance, but I fixed it, so I have faith that I can figure this problem out as well. I think it is probably a hose being disconnected, and I may have to go buy a new hose for it. I could live with that type of minimal expense problem. Any more than that, and I don’t know how I will react.
I have been wondering, though, if TIM was possibly involved in the demise of the machine, and what, if anything, he did to it.
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The night of August 14th, (that was Saturday if you’re keeping track), I slept 7 (- SEVEN-) hours. I went to bed around 2:30 a.m., and slept, without waking, through the rest of the (night) morning.
When I did wake up, it was due to the previously mentioned needs (see post below). When I saw the clock, I could not believe how long I had been asleep. Although I was still tired, and could have slept more, had I tried, I decided to get up and get moving. Once I was up and moving around, I felt remarkably better than I have on any given morning in the past month.
Sunday night… I did not have much luck in trying to sleep. I went to bed around 11:00 p.m., since I had to go to work the following day. I was lying there, thinking; but not about anything in particular. Random thoughts bounced around inside my head (as they tend to do) and none of the thoughts seemed to ever develop into anything useful or specific.
Tonight (which was Monday night up until about two and a half hours ago) I have not managed to slow my brain down enough to even try to sleep. Thoughts are pinging around in my head, bouncing and rebounding (or is that the same thing?) and quite honestly, they are making too much noise (in an abstract way) for me to relax.
It is now Tuesday, and in four hours, I will be at work. I just don’t know what the minimum amount of sleep I can get and still be able to function on an acceptable (that is to my own standards) level. I know that I can be in the state that I am now, and perform even more complex tasks without fail. (*STATE, not as in Oregon / Washington / California… but state as in: the way something is with respect to its main attributes; “the current state of knowledge”; “his state of health”; “in a weak financial state”).
A while back (days, weeks, months… who knows?) I had taken an online test to measure how tiredness affected you me — reaction time, and other things were some of the things the test analyzed. I have been trying to find it again, but cannot remember the search term I had used when I came across it the first time.
Anyway, as much as I would love to sit here and type out these thoughts as they are forming in my head, as I stated earlier, I have to work Tuesday, which is today. Unless you adhere ?(to)? my statement from a few years ago that it still can be called “tonight” until the point that you lay down on something and sleep, or until the sun rises.
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It has been… [29] days since I have had a good sleep. By “good sleep”, I mean to say that I have not slept more than four hours, and those four hours come in pieces, or not all at once. I lay down, pass out within ten minutes, and wake up after an hour.
Then, if I am lucky, I fall asleep again not long after that (anything within half an hour in my opinion falls into that category). Most nights (in the recent past), I have been sleeping an hour, then spend an hour and fifteen minutes awake; after which I (finally) slip back into unconsciousness.
The second round of sleep GENERALLY lasts about two hours, and then I wake up needing (a) to pee (b) a drink of water or (c) both a & b. Luckily, once that task is completed, I can generally drift on a cloud of semi-sleep.
Semi-sleep is that type of sleep, (zombie sleep) which I know some of you have experienced at least once, in that you are aware of the crap going on around you, but you are not quite able to participate in said crap.
I wander around in that half sleep – sleep for the rest of the night, not quite sleeping, but not quite awake. In this half-sleep stage, IF I manage to dream at all – I have some level of control over the dream. I know I have had a few of these recently, but have been unable to recall any information about them once I am fully awake.
I am too tired to even think of other words to describe how tired I am.
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Personally, I do not buy ground beef often, and never buy pre-formed frozen patties… but some of you might… so I thought I’d let you know about the recall…
[FOOD Recall] Information Check your freezer — it could make you very sick!
(this site also lists many other recalls for health safety so it is worth keeping)
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