I played Greensleeves on the keyboard tonight! Both hands, both hands!

Completely chuffed!

Aside from that, I'm really tired. Not much sleep last night. Breathing.

I enjoy breathing, even when I'm asleep, I'm funny that way, I guess.

But. When my nose is stopped up, the CPAP stops working.

And I then have to breathe through my mouth, which is highly uncomfortable. And, since I'm really accustomed to the CPAP, damned near impossible.

So it was a long, long night.

The reason that I can't breathe is Blue Cross. Yep, they've decided that I didn't need the Nasonex™ that the doc prescribed for me three years ago. Either that or they're just tired of paying for it. Well, so am I, but for $40 a month, it keeps me rested.

But right now I really, really need it, I do. In fact, I think that I'll go talk to the pharmacist and see if there is some OTC product that I can use.

20:41, back from the drug store.

Y'know, I was really ready to get all huffy and nasty with them, quite simply because it's really hard (and possibly dangerous, to boot) to get huffy and nasty with BC/BS. They don't really care, y'know?

So I told the clerk that I needed to pick up one prescription and that I had a question. She said, "O'no, Mr. Franklin, you have two prescriptions ready!" So I asked if one was Nasonex™ and she said yes and I said no, I have no more questions. Turns out that the prescription needed renewing, and the doc's office was slower than usual about it. O'well.

So I will most likely get a good night's sleep tonight, and I'm looking forward to that.

And now I have a bunch of pent-up anger that I need to unleash on an unsuspecting world. Or maybe not, maybe I'll just go to sleep.

Another thing that I'm looking forward to, well, besides spring, is that in just a few minutes I will smoke my last cigar. It's a five-dollar one that I've been saving for a special occasion, and this is it.

And I'm gonna smoke it whilst playing Greensleeves and possibly Blue Moon, heh. Then on to I left my heart....

Re-quitting smoking has been on my mind for quite a while, and I will be glad to be done with it again, I truly will. I will miss my newer smoking buddies but I won't miss going outside when it's below zero and the wind chill as it whips around the smoking area must be about -50°F. T'hell with that.