I haven’t been around much, I know, but I had to put something up about this. Yep, I’m now one of the privileged folks who has enjoyed the wonders of MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, thanks to a spider bite about a week ago. Continue reading
Today I did my first jury duty – well, at least I reported for it. I didn’t end up getting called to serve on any juries, just sat around for 4 hours and then received my certificate for being a good boy and sent home. Or work, in my case. So, I got paid to read my book and do crossword puzzles, which wasn’t so bad. Continue reading
Talk about irony. I just started working on a site for a migraine medication, which was cool since I have suffered from migraines since I was a kid. However, over the last few years, they’ve been getting progressively fewer and fewer, which I can’t say that I mind. In fact, it’s been about 6 months since I have had a migraine, and I had thought that I was doing pretty well. Then, today I got to remember how much migraines <em>suck</em>. Nothing like an ol’ migraine to remind you of why a good migraine medicine is so valuable.
Well, at least I won in fantasy football to win my 4th week in a row and move to 5-3.
I heard a really odd thing in passing as I was walking to work today. I clean-cut guy in business casual wear passes while talking on his cell phone. The only thing I hear as he goes past…
“…dancing naked around the cauldron…”
Okay, I should have written this last week, but I got the results back from my sleep study, although I can’t say that I got any news that I didn’t expect. My normal sleep wasn’t really remarkable – strangely, I slept better there than I do at home most of the time. I figure that the lack of distractions – a sort of forced sensory deprivation without tv, dogs, my wife tossing and turning, the cat, etc. – helped with that. The fun started with the daytime ‘nap’ series.
Basically, every couple of hours, they would turn out the lights and tell me to try to sleep. And sleep I did. In the 5 naps, I fell asleep in all 5. What’s more interesting is that I was asleep in less than 2 minutes and in REM sleep in less than 4 minutes in 4 of the 5 naps. Verdict = narcolepsy.
Luckily, I have a mild form that won’t require any treatment beyond what I already do for ADD, and I won’t be risking my driver’s license or the rights to operate heavy machinery. And it’s nice to know that there is a definition for why I have trouble holding my head up while listening to some people. Oh wait, that’s unrelated – I meant, hard to stay awake during boring meetings and periods of low activity. Hell, I rocked myself to sleep in our rocking chair one time.
Oh well, just one more mental aberation to deal with … now, if I could just get the dog to stop barking at every little sound so that I could sleep through the night…
