Archive for the tag "insomnia"

  • When I can’t sleep, I get angry at the world. It’s all your fault. #
  • Kindlelust is messing up my life. Starting a list of books I want even though I have no Kindle. I’m not even in line for one! Need therapy. #
  • I’m freezing, wtf should I eat? Wish we had someplace like the Soupbox here. http://www.thesoupbox.com/ Yeah yeah, Chicago blah blah blah. #
  • Confessed to Wil that his present was here taunting me and I wanted to give it to him already. He’s all… “oh well, too bad for you!” Heh. #
  • Listening to Steve Albini on Sound of Young America. Mentions nothing about how I turned his career around with all the referrals! Hee. j/k #
  • (Well, I did find him those Jud Jud MP3s, which he really really wanted, so they’ll never take that away from me!) http://tinyurl.com/4lmjt #
  • Cambodian Rocks MP3s for free on WFMU! Good shit. http://tinyurl.com/2mvzqa #
  • Got woken up way too early by a buzzsnort. Not my own but it very well could have been! I do that AND talk in my sleep so I’m the lucky one. #
  • Amazon Filler Item Finder (via Metafilter)
  • Bad Behavior antispam plugin for WordPress et al
  • Jesus, I just installed the Bad Behavior plugin for WP like five minutes ago and it’s already blocked 6 access attempts. :-o #
  • When I get the sleep-paralysis thing where I think I’m getting up, I can “stretch” my “leg” into the air and actually feel the burn. Freaky. #
  • The TV was on (IRL) and I could “see” it… but when I put my hand up to cover that view, IT WAS INVISIBLE. Everybody look at your hands! #
  • Earlier I’d caught a young woman who’d broken into the house. Shrank her down to 3 inches and held her squirming while I called the cops. #
  • @gruber was there!?! I told him I’d just shrunken the last intruder and he’s like “heh… in your dream!” and I’m all… “well, yeah!” #
  • Gotta very wily spammer trying to post pharmaceutical links in my Scintillating Scotoma group after I told him nicely to STFU. GRRRR!!! Ban. #
  • Louisiana Fried Chicken forgot to give me my dirty rice, so I walked back. They made it right AND gave me free 7-Up cake. Customer service! #
  • HappyWil and HappyWil and Happy last night at Armadillo Pizza
  • Watched Dr Who, one of those countdown-to-doom episodes, I got scared and now I can’t sleep! OK I’m just an insomniac, not the Dr.’s fault. #
  • Just Craigslisted my old Treo 650 and a whole heapin’ helpin’ of accessories. Yay!! I suck at getting rid of stuff so I’m pleased w/ myself. #
  • Woke up @ 4AM and couldn’t get back to sleep, all ‘cuz I’m STILL mad at Pitchf**k for screwing me over on the last album?! I know… stupid. #
  • Brrrr!! I just got fan mail from the North Pole. #
  • They’re only giving us 33% off to upgrade LifeBalance? And they haven’t updated the app in *how* long? No thanks, I’m not even gonna try it. #
  • I can hear my neighbors *belching*. That’s too close. I’m from Texas! #
  • OMG I resurrected the iBook! All-day voodoo dance and chanting. Possibly got a bad ATA controller, but in low power mode it’s now working. #

Poor little Eskimo

My poor sweet little iBook G4 (named Eskimo after the Residents album of course) is in the shop with what appears to be a failing hard drive.  What is it with me and hard drives?  It happened so fast too.  The poor baby started getting asthma just a few days ago, and as soon as I got home from touring, started locking up bigtime.  I kept having to do the unfortunate holding-down-of-the-power-button thing, staring at the screen woefully ‘cuz the drive’s thrashing and the lights are on but nobody’s home.  Full-blown grand mal seizures.

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