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But you know how these days seem to go anymore? I was dead on my feet by noon, and I drug outta there on time at 16:30.

And I'm gonna go to bed tonight about 20:00, gotta get completely caught up some time, dammit, this side of the grave.

O'yeah, no graves for me. Or Karen either. In fact, we discussed this last time we were driving down to see Mom. Cremation, of course, and then whoever survives will keep the ashes in a box (that I plan to make) and them when the survivor dies, their ashes will be commingled with the first one and maybe scattered somewhere? We haven't got that figgered out yet, but we will. And if we don't, the survivor gets to decide. That'll be Karen, of course, I don't have a chance in hell of outliving her. She's got her heart and her genes, and I have mine....

O'yeah, while I'm just dredging up stuff to put in here, Brother Dan has said that it's all right to use ellipses, and he's an authority figure in the field, and dammit, that's good enough for me, and it should be enough for my vociferous critics, too. He even goes so far as to say that they aren't used enough....

So... there! Take that!

And this....

I've gotta come up with some new terms for sleep deprivation, that term is *way* overused. Especially here, I would hate to do a word count through the archives. "Sleepyheadedness", while an apt descriptive term, doesn't really get it, it sounds like a short-term thing, like when you just get up and don't remember how to put on your pants or whatever.

So, I looked it up, and it really means "about to go to sleep" which doesn't work either.

At any rate, it counts as a mild form of insanity... maybe not-so-mild in many cases.

Well, crap. Wikipedia.com is down, and neither dictionary.com nor m-w.com are satisfactory. I'll just let it lie for a few more days... and think about it. And hope that when the answer hits, it's where I can grab a pencil and paper or my PDA.

I find answers in dreams sometimes... hell, a lot. Problem is, though, even though I tell myself in my dream that I will remember the answer, I never do.

And something else weird that I do in my dreams, and sometimes in the hypnotic state before sleeping, is that I'll be looking at a newspaper, usually the funnies, and I'll see the cartoons (in color!) and I can almost read the captions. In fact, I'm almost able to actually make the captions up as I'm reading, and sometimes they're really funny.

And I can't remember them either.

Dreams are fun and frightening at the same time. I should be using that mental energy to make money, heh.