"We like these subs" and "Call my car K.I.T.T."
Mmm...had Quizno's for lunch and dinner today. Don't know why...maybe b/c it was cheap, and neither sub I had tasted like one another, so it 'felt' like 2 completely different meals.
Key words for today: Sleepiness...extreme sleepiness...nausea (Stacey)...did I mention sleepiness?
Like j-mo, for one reason or another I was up until 3 or 3:30 in the morning. Just couldn't sleep. I surfed the net. I watched TV. I played games on the PC. Just couldn't get tired. So, I e-mailed Scott. He's like, "why are you up?" I was just glad someone was around to talk to...heh.
Seriously, it's the third night in a row that I haven't slept more than a couple of hours each night, and it's starting to take a SERIOUS toll on my well-being. I get shaky during the day and I really can't concentrate very well at all...way beyond the normal ADD thing. At least then, what I focus on gets my full attention (even something distracting). But when I'm sleepy, I can't focus on anything...
Case in point: Had to run something up to Stacey at work today. I put Kailyn in the car, started it, and started to back down the driveway when I noticed that I'd (absentmindedly) left the door between the garage and the house open. So, I exited the car to go shut it. I turned around after shutting the door to see my nice new car rolling backwards (by itself) into the street (and my car is not K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider)...Kailyn inside and everything. I ran, jumped in and grabbed the handbrake, lurching the car to a dead stop just as the car entered the dead center of the street. No cars coming...nothing like that, at least... Still 10 feet from Dave's mailbox...which would NOT have been a good thing to hit with a car...even at 2-5 mph. Oh, well...all ended well...Kailyn didn't even freak out when it was obvious I was. I just climbed in, remote-shut the garage door, and drove off in a cool, "Look, nothing happened" kind of way...when deep down I was very scared of what just happened...almost not believing it. I do stupid stuff all the time, but NOTHING like this.
Did I say I've been dead-near exhausted? This was the crowning moment in my realization that lack of sleep can become a serious detriment to normal life. I've owned 5-speed cars my whole life. If the engine is running, you put the parking break on. Duh. Even in my first car (my old 1985 Supra), I never did something like what happened today - and that was when I was learning to drive a clutch. I got out of the car today, and it was still when I walked away from it...or I know I would've noticed the car I was getting out of was moving, I guess...
Still..stupid, stupid...
Soooo...I know why sleepy people do dumb crap like falling asleep at the wheel. When you're very sleepy, you feel out of it, but you don't always know just how serious it is. You aren't aware of the change...
After this experience, I pumped myself full of Mountain Dew to make sure I'd stay awake. Sad, eh? Now, a good 12 hours later, I can laugh at myself...thinking, depending on the context, what happened could either be the subject of America's Funniest Home Videos or a segment of Burt and Curt's "idiot of the day" (on 101.1 FM).
Anyway, tonight I wound up taking Stacey and Kailyn to Quiznos. Met J-mo there, and saw John's brother Joe, too. Wandered down to EBgames after eating and browsed the selection. Interestingly, in back they had a used $170 game for the XBOX called Steel Battalion. I'd heard of it, but never saw the setup before. By itself, the game would probably cost the standard $50 new. But the controller setup is the additional expense. It comes complete with this dual joystick, 3-pedal monstrosity of a setup that literally turns your XBOX into a full-scale mech simulator. Very cool. Maybe I should...hmmm...
Pray that I get some real good sleep tonight. I need it. Eyes...getting...heavy...
KEY PHRASES: "Should we just call his girlfriend the "pass-around" girl?" Kailyn, you're too young to drive by yourself." "Well...whoopty-crappin'-doo...everyone's out of town that weekend."
Key words for today: Sleepiness...extreme sleepiness...nausea (Stacey)...did I mention sleepiness?
Like j-mo, for one reason or another I was up until 3 or 3:30 in the morning. Just couldn't sleep. I surfed the net. I watched TV. I played games on the PC. Just couldn't get tired. So, I e-mailed Scott. He's like, "why are you up?" I was just glad someone was around to talk to...heh.
Seriously, it's the third night in a row that I haven't slept more than a couple of hours each night, and it's starting to take a SERIOUS toll on my well-being. I get shaky during the day and I really can't concentrate very well at all...way beyond the normal ADD thing. At least then, what I focus on gets my full attention (even something distracting). But when I'm sleepy, I can't focus on anything...
Case in point: Had to run something up to Stacey at work today. I put Kailyn in the car, started it, and started to back down the driveway when I noticed that I'd (absentmindedly) left the door between the garage and the house open. So, I exited the car to go shut it. I turned around after shutting the door to see my nice new car rolling backwards (by itself) into the street (and my car is not K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider)...Kailyn inside and everything. I ran, jumped in and grabbed the handbrake, lurching the car to a dead stop just as the car entered the dead center of the street. No cars coming...nothing like that, at least... Still 10 feet from Dave's mailbox...which would NOT have been a good thing to hit with a car...even at 2-5 mph. Oh, well...all ended well...Kailyn didn't even freak out when it was obvious I was. I just climbed in, remote-shut the garage door, and drove off in a cool, "Look, nothing happened" kind of way...when deep down I was very scared of what just happened...almost not believing it. I do stupid stuff all the time, but NOTHING like this.
Did I say I've been dead-near exhausted? This was the crowning moment in my realization that lack of sleep can become a serious detriment to normal life. I've owned 5-speed cars my whole life. If the engine is running, you put the parking break on. Duh. Even in my first car (my old 1985 Supra), I never did something like what happened today - and that was when I was learning to drive a clutch. I got out of the car today, and it was still when I walked away from it...or I know I would've noticed the car I was getting out of was moving, I guess...
Still..stupid, stupid...
Soooo...I know why sleepy people do dumb crap like falling asleep at the wheel. When you're very sleepy, you feel out of it, but you don't always know just how serious it is. You aren't aware of the change...
After this experience, I pumped myself full of Mountain Dew to make sure I'd stay awake. Sad, eh? Now, a good 12 hours later, I can laugh at myself...thinking, depending on the context, what happened could either be the subject of America's Funniest Home Videos or a segment of Burt and Curt's "idiot of the day" (on 101.1 FM).
Anyway, tonight I wound up taking Stacey and Kailyn to Quiznos. Met J-mo there, and saw John's brother Joe, too. Wandered down to EBgames after eating and browsed the selection. Interestingly, in back they had a used $170 game for the XBOX called Steel Battalion. I'd heard of it, but never saw the setup before. By itself, the game would probably cost the standard $50 new. But the controller setup is the additional expense. It comes complete with this dual joystick, 3-pedal monstrosity of a setup that literally turns your XBOX into a full-scale mech simulator. Very cool. Maybe I should...hmmm...
Pray that I get some real good sleep tonight. I need it. Eyes...getting...heavy...
KEY PHRASES: "Should we just call his girlfriend the "pass-around" girl?" Kailyn, you're too young to drive by yourself." "Well...whoopty-crappin'-doo...everyone's out of town that weekend."
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Dude,I am glad you are ok. I hope at this moment you are sleeping.
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