The Days Really Are Getting Shorter

On the Subject of Sleep: In which we discuss the changing season and it's effects on my sleep schedule and we briefly mention my progress towards writing a NaNoWriMo Novel

 

Alright, let's get started by describing how yesterday went. I woke up after a full nights sleep then, after acctually eating breakfast and spending some time poking at the internet, bussed to work. Work was busy due, in part, to the chaos caused by fluctiations in corporate america and the ineptitude of certain companies in planning for these changes. It would appear that they are still makeing more money then they know what to do with (my suggestion would be to spend that money hire a lot more staff at all locations... but that's just me)... anyways... busy busy busy... call after call busy.

 

After work I came home and had to go run errands with my wife for a while, buying money orders, going out to subway for dinner and depositing a cheque at Billings Bridge. When we got home it was pretty close to 8 o'clock and I played a few video games and was basically in bed by 8:45.

 

Now there are a few ways to decide the length of a "day".  Many people would assume 24 hours in a day, starting either at midnight or sunrise or sunset or some other arbitrary time, by this definition days in the winter are the same length as days in the summer.  Another definition is the number of hours between sunrise and sunset which does get shorter during the winter.  You could also say that the period of time between waking up and going to bed for the night defines a day.

 

By this last definition, the period of time between 12:00am and 1:47 when I wrote the 1,400 or so words towards my story about... well I'm not entirely sure... but it involves dragons... and a flying university, would count as a day.

 

Anyways, the problem I have been having recently seems to be that I am sleeping too much, which isn't very common. The main symptom of sleeping too much is usually that I am remembering too many dreams... in particular those kinds of freaky dreams where you try to wake up screaming but are unable to do so.  In any case I am feeling ready to go to bed earlier and then not sleeping very well, which I'm pretty sure it because by the time I get home at 6pm it's basically dark.

The "meh."s

Nothing Like the "Mondays"

 

So, there's been a few things going on in the last little while.  On satuday I had some friends over and we played Zombies!!!, ate pizza, and just generally hung out... it was fun but I was kinda hopeing for more then two people would show up.  Oh well.

 

Gene and I hung out sunday and played Civ4 until the program crashed while watching episodes of House with Trish... Trish watches a lot of house.  I think gene was getting sick of the slow pace of playing Civ4 with me... the game autosaved so I'm gonna have to get him to finish it with me some day.

 

Because Rob decided to sleep instead of coming to my party on Saturday so we hung out sunday night and watched TV.

 

Monday night Heroes was awsome, as usual... still anctionsely anticipating the next episode.

 

Tuesday Trish and I went over to robs to keep him company while he handed out candy, I dressed up in a suit... get it... "Dressed Up" for Hollowe'en... the orriginal idea was to go as a "Fairy Godfather", but I couldn't find my bowtie and the pink wings made me look really stupid.

 

Last night was House... I guess I really like House too.

 

The Game

 

Rob and I are working on a game... well, rob is programming a game and I am hounding him to finish it and producing graphics and maps and helping with design desisions and such. There is a signifigant chance that this game will never see the light of day. The main point is for Rob to finish something so that he has the back-ground experience to make a real game, so we can make an MMO and stop having real jobs.

 

That Novel Writing Month Thing

 

So I opened up a document with the cool "Google Documents and Spreadsheets" service, fully intending to get stated on my novel... but as it turns out, I've been taking call after call all morning and have been unable to even come up with a nice little outline today. That's been the way work has been for a couple weeks so I'm not really expecting to write anything at work... which means I will have to set aside some time for writing when I'm at home... which means I will have to find some kind of sedative to sneak my wife because she can't stand me writing for some reason and constantly interupts me for stupid reasons. All else fails I can write after she goes to bed I suppose.

 

I guess I could be writing right now instead of blogging... but I really can't collect my thoughts at work... I hate it here too much to really get comfortable.

 

The End

 

I finished reading the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" series... next up is the second book in the Bartameus Trilogy.