Another revelation: three hours of sleep don't get it, either. I don't know what the hell's the matter with me.

I went to sleep at 23:00 last night, tired as hell, of course... and got up at 02:00. Several attempts to get back to sleep were of no avail. Got up and decided to stay up about 04:30 after third attempt.

The day happened.

Went to bed at 15:30, and got up at 18:30... another three hours. Feels like nothing, though.

So, I didn't get much accomplished today before my nap... just on the web, looking for Linux stuff. My brain is probably going to explode, or maybe it already has...

After I got up and ate supper, the boys and I rewired the cable for the TVs. For years we've had a spliced-together system, and now we've got one that's solid. Another problem that we found... the leak from the tub had been dripping on the hub... makes for bad transmission quality, huh. Much, much better now, it is.

Problem, though... I've not had my PC-TV hooked up for quite a while... since before I moved to the basement... and I re-hooked it up. And so, naturally, it doesn't work. Nor does the capture device. It did before I started dicking around with it today.

Looked all over for the install floppies. After about an hour, I remembered that the install stuff came on a CD. I found the CD in about five minutes. It really helps if you know what you're looking for. Not just in this particular case, either, but in life in general...

I've not had enough sleep lately to do anything that requires either intelligence or coordination. I should not try to do stuff that needs either of those qualities.

Went to the PCITV web site, DL their new stuff for WIN98. Didn't work, either. I just DLed the drivers, now I'm in the process of DLing the whole damned CD, something like 24 MB. Reeeediculous! Anyway, I'll get it working...

A little after 23:00, I've got the boys working on putting the handles on the cabinets. After that, they'll finish up with the trim around the ceiling, if they have enough energy.

Energy. Gee, I'd like to buy some right now. Or maybe buy some total exhaustion, so I could go to sleep and get some energy.

I think that I've been getting just enough sleep to not satisfy me, but enough that I can't go back to sleep. That sounds stupid, I know, and it feels even worse.

Sometimes total exhaustion can be fun, as I've mentioned before, but dammit, I have stuff that I need to be doing that I'm not getting done. I'm sure that the episode with the hives had a lot to do with this whole thing, but I just want to get over it.

And I will, probably, just in time to go back to work.

I do have an appointment with the sleep center doc next week, though, maybe something good'll come out of that. That's the intention, anyway...

This is incomplete, but I'm going to stop anyway.

More tomorrow...