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This week has seemed interminable, to say the least. And here I am only human. "I can endure! I can endure!" has been my mantra.

I don't really know why the week has been this way, I only know that I'm glad that ti's over, and I don't lightly wish my hours away.

Speaking of which, mortality is grossly unfair to humans of almost every ilk.

I did get up relatively on time today, and I plan on sleeping in a bit tomorrow, even though I'm planning on getting some work done on the back deck. Like, getting started... taking some of the planks up and shoreing up the underpinnings mostly. I've been thinking about how to do it for two years now, so it should go fairly quickly.

I just got a surprise... I had forgotten to take my pills last night.

I set up a foolproof system, y'know? But I guess that I didn't really consider the enormity of the fool that I was dealing with.

My main machine reminds me to take the pills, The pocketPC reminds me to take the pills. And what I do is take the pills and then dismiss the reminder. And it almost always works.

But last night it didn't. Last night I was reading something interesting, and I hit the dismiss button, thinking (?) that I would take them... as soon as I finished reading the interesting article. Well, you've probably heard of hyperlinks, heh? The author had some supposrting doicuments, so I hadda go look at them And so on and so on... then I ws sleepy, and I went to bed.

This happened last week with my morning pills, similar circumstances, I'm sure. And it was discovered the same way, tonight when I went to take them, the "Thursday" box still had the pills in it.

And I didn't die, either time. But I'm sure that my BP was way up there, and that's hard on arteries. I need to treat my arteries with care, I do.

So, *no more cheating*!

I'm not really a natural-born cheater, I'm just a guy who gets interested in things to the exclusion of everything else in the world, including my own precious body and brain.

And that has its' good side and its' bad side, like almost everything else in the world. It allows me to concentrate on the task at hand even if I miss my dinner, and I've never chopped an appendage off 'cause I wasn't paying attention when I was working with devices that can maim.

Well, I was planning on keeping this shoprt, and then I start the rambling thing. O'well.