No Sleep, Due to No Alcohol?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | Life | No Comments

I think today was one of the first days in a week or two that I have not drank.

It’s not that I am an alcoholic. It has just worked out that way. Sometimes there is nothing to drink in the house except absinthe… and other times I end up hanging out with friends and having some beers.

So tonight I figured I would just not drink anything. However now I seem unable to fall asleep. I am thinking about shit. Stupid shit like needing to stop at the bank tomorrow and things I could do on my website; which is especially annoying considering I already have a list of 53 items to do on here.

I am thinking I should have just drank tonight. I mean that should make me tired enough to just pass out without all that pesky thinking.

Had somebody else come to me and said they were having trouble sleeping I would tell them to just write down what they were thinking so they would know that they would not forget and then they wouldn’t have to focus on those things anymore. Technically I am doing this by writing it down in a blog post, however I also work for myself which means that I really have no reason to sleep since if I get tired during the day I can just go to sleep then.

I considered starting a polynap regiment. Basically I would use brainwaves and white noise to zonk me to sleep and wake me up 26 mins later before I have reached stage 2 sleep, and I would do this a few times a day.

There is this guy in the UK who runs a blog on doing this who made all these mp3’s that I ganked off his site awhile ago. However if doing that gives you enough to continually blog about it means that it is a real pain in the ass to do.

I mean if you are hanging out with other people it would seem weird if you needed to just go and leave for half an hour every 3 or 4 hours.

Well one of these days I will put those polynap mp3’s on my audio page. I have a lot of ideas for how to revise the audio page and I figure even if you aren’t making it the only way you sleep, a good power nap now and then can be very beneficial.

So now I am up. I figure I can work on the site. Probably will start by working on bringing back my magic 8-ball. Of course the last time I used my 8-ball script was on either animeden or animesins.com back in the 90’s, so I will probably want to make it a bit better looking.

I could tackle the user registration or the page editing for the theater, but that seems a bit lofty for a sleepless smartass to handle right now.

Who knows. Maybe this is the real secret to getting things done on my site. I just need to stop sleeping so that I can spend more time making new shiznit.

Oh as a side note, some german trance guy joined the site radio’s group and it’s making me have to click next a lot on the site radio. The radio is made up of all the music people in the group listen to on last.fm. So it’s simple, I just need more people to join the radio so I can start to hear different music again. I know, I can always switch stations but this keeps it interesting. So join the station and shape what I (and I’m sure others on this site) listen to: http://www.last.fm/group/I+Like+Shiny+Things

Thx,
The Sleepless Smartass

Tags: drinking, insomnia, polynap