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Wednesday, August 25, 1999 07:39

Last night was different than the night before. I was busy until about 01:30. Then things really started to drag, bad. Really hard to stay awake, or to concentrate on the necessary paperwork. It took a lot of effort to keep the eyes open until 07:00, but I did it.

Not much longer, though. Normally, I would try to stay up until about noon or so, sleep four hours, then get up and go to bed at a "normal" time... but today I'm going to go to sleep now and sleep until I get up, and I'm thinking that I can sleep more tonight.

Did the camera swap with Shawn, and played a little bit with it, but again, my concentration wasn't the greatest. I did get a great shot of a spider, which I will photoshop later...

But right now, pills and bed. More later...


20:37...
Well, this has been a frustrating day in more ways than one. Firstly, I have not been able to get any sleep. And secondly, my computer has been giving me fits. I turned it off to install the printer, and I turned it back on after I'd plugged the cable in.

It was very unhappy.

The CDRom had disappeared from the system... again.

It told me that the master boot record had been altered.

I struggled with it for a while, then got on-line and got a McAfee virus program, It said that I had the V-Sign virus.

So I went to get a second opinion. There's a free on-line checker, so I tried that. Well, it wanted to erase some data files which were totally innocent and inconsequential, so I let it. But no sign of the V-Sign virus.

And now, dammit, everything is fine. I think that the damned thing is confused, and it got more confused when I plugged in the printer... O'yeah, I plugged in the scanner too, at the same time. I think that was a mistake. No... I'm certain that was the mistake. No, no... the mistake was in getting out of bed. I should have forced myself to stay in bed and go to sleep.

I can't think when I'm tired, but I don't have enough sense to know it. Like I said, I think I can think but I really can't think. Damn, I'm just really lucky to be able to type in such a condition. And you are so lucky to be able to read these words...

Let's see... up 27 hours now. That's probably enough to prove my point.

Now, if I could just remember what the point was... maybe the point is that there is no point. Or the point is that I wouldn't know what a point was unless it stuck me in the eye... a fairly frequent occurrence, when I was frequenting places where there were points flying around. I try to avoid that these latter days. Older, smarter... and mostly too tired to deal with points. Now, blunt objects are altogether different. I still react with alacrity to blunt objects like two-by-fours. Sometimes.

Enough.


Thanx for being here!

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