No point in moping around feeling sorry for myself right now, so maybe I'll pick up doing what I have always enjoyed doing for the past 13 years. They didn't call them "blogs" in the mid-90s, they were just "homepages." Blogging with pre-built templates is so much easier, but I sorta miss cranking out my handmade atrocities. I shut down the old site and parked it the other day. There were a couple of pages there that were bandwidth hogs and right now I have other priorities for my money besides hosting fees.
Random Observation 1: I saw a Smart Car on the West Sam this morning. I have heard that they aren't very fast, but this jackass was pushing 80 and weaving through the traffic. So it's a fallacy that the Smart Car can't perform in heavy freeway traffic. You won't catch me in one, though. I think it's an overpriced, overhyped hunk of crap unless you live in a dense city with narrow streets.
Random Observation 2: I heard Dwight Silverman on TWiT today. It's his second time on the show and he blended right in with the rest. I wish Dvorak was on. I would have liked to hear Dvorak get cranky about Dwight's opinions on the death of the daily newspaper.I still think that it's a premature call. Free but truly audited circulation would greatly enlarge the subscriber base and bring in a rush of new ad revenue. Ads already cover 80% of the cost of your daily newspaper. Until they make the switch, the printed daily will continue to bleed subscribers and relevance to the community. The business model needs to be ripped up. There are so many things the dailies could do but don't. Example: Why not micro-target the editorial and reporting? They already do that to a certain extent with advertising. Instead of being all things to all people, the PTB should face reality and gear the content towards the marketplace. Inner Loop/Montrose skews left, have the reporters concentrate on muckraking and reporting on things that are important to them. The folks up on the northwest side skew right, gear the editorial to them. Instead of hiding the inherent biases of the reporters and editors, use these biases to attract readers. Everyone is biased one way or another, and it's absurd to claim otherwise.
Random Observation 3: Last year I wrote that I was skeptical about the Park 8 condo project. The construction crane went up and then nothing happened for months.
Last week a contractor went to the site and removed the crane. I guess the Park 8 project is no more.Random Observation 4: Anxiety attacks really suck. I tried some Tylenol PM the other night. All that happened was I still tossed and turned, not able to sleep. But instead of reading a book like I normally do when I can't sleep all I could do was lay still and be all groggy. I like a nice glass of red wine at night, but I am not so sure that wine would ease the anxiety. For me anyway, booze makes anxiety even worse. I am not a militant teetotaler (if you enjoy your drink, Prost!), I just no longer have any desire for my nightly glass of the red juice. I think what works best for anxiety is exercise. I felt better after swimming tonight. Knock on a cheap computer desk that I can catch some solid Z's.
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Thanks to the dealer here in Sugar Land, those Smart cars are seemingly all over. I've seen them on the freeway as well and it surprised me when they were keeping up on BW8. Those poor hamsters must have been tired. ha.
Ironic that the dealer is out here in the burbs since those are supposedly marketed to urbanites etc. UH Sugar Land actually has quite a few of them. So I guess they are the new cheap/small cars people are getting their kids now.
Lou,
I Looked at Wikipedia for smart cars.
A box on wheels. It won't go where I need to go.
Heck, I gonna use up my share of the Gasoline as long as I can afford it :-)
Unable to sleep, yeah, excersise has done it for me. Usually near the sea. I guess where you are you don't get much of the salt air.
Wally, I have humidity. It's like being near the sea, but hotter and without the pleasant late afternoon breeze.
Ahh, Lou, good to see you up and about despite the circumstances. I hope you continue to post as often as you can.
As an insomniac, I've found that excercise is the best solution for me, too, but only if I do it three hours, minimum, before I go to bed, otherwise I get too amped up to sleep. Alcohol helps but you wake up within a couple of hours, dry and restless. Maybe I'm not drinking enough of it.
Sublingual melatonin works much better than Tylenol PM for insomnia.
Try some wheatgrass for help with sleeping... I drink the stuff regularly, and sleep around 20 hours per day. ;-p
Actually, I've been having problems sleeping lately as well. I'm leaving my job of the last 14 years so I can teach. Major honking pay cut and we are moving cross town to the lower rent distcit. Plus we're waiting back on test results for my wife to see if she's got cancer or not. So I know that it's all stress related.
I tried drinking but hated that. Tried Melatonin but it didn't work for me but it seems to work for the wife. Tylenol PM seems to work as long as I take 3 about an hour before I'm ready to go to bed. Then I just try to force myself to lay in bed. I get around 6 or 7 hours of good solid sleep. It seems to work except when I don't force myself to lay down. Everyone is different. You'll find what works for you.
Don't do the Tylenol PM unless you are actually in Physical pain, especially if you are going to try to drown your sorrows as well. You might as well just carve your liver out and burn the damned thing.
Tylenol PM is nothing more than conventional Tylenol combined with Benedryl which is what actually puts you to sleep. If you just want to sleep and you are not in pain, just take the benedryl. (take the capules instead of the tablets, you'll stay asleep longer.) Not only will your liver thank you, but generic benedryl is cheaper than the Tylenol PM anyway.
If this is depression due to short term family issues vs a more long term issue, you might consider discussing short term SSRI's with your doctor.
Exercising regularly is the best thing that I ever did. I am now at a pretty high level. The booze WILL NOT help you in your current situation. Drop it for a while, you won't miss it.
I still like a few beers on the weekends. Gotta live.
I see Rorschach already covered Tylenol PM being nothing more than Tylenol with Benedryl. And like he said, generic benedryl is much cheaper (I used it for allergies/sinus problems).
Valerian might help, but if you decide to try it, do not breath after opening the bottle, and before taking them!
When I was stressed and anxious due to circumstances, my job knew what the circumstances were, and offered me three counseling sessions. I only went to one, but he gave me a prescription for sleeping pills, even though I was wary of them because I feel the effects the next morning a few hours.
But I did take one a few times when I didn't have to work the next day. Otherwise, I just stayed awake, keeping my mind filled with TV or the internet so I wouldn't think or remember the cause of my woes. Eventually I'd fall asleep, even if it was a few hours before I had to wake up.
The valerian didn't have such strong after-effects IIRC, so if I took them early enough in the evening, I was decent the next morning.
Smart cars - I've been thinking about one of those for errands during non-busy times, and NOT on the freeways. I thought about a motorcycle too, but they're more expensive, and I'd need gear for cold, and rain (which I'd probably always have to carry since this is Houston).
THe only reason I would want a Smart Car is because I live in Philly proper and a Smart car would fit in parking spots no other car would fit in.
Other than that...its cute. So what?
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