07/29/2006: "A midnight (6am?) surprise"

Stayed in bed for about an hour or so trying to sleep, but no luck. I'm not really sure why, since I'm actually really tired right now. After an hour, it started raining, which wasn't all that bad. Hey, sleeping through the rain is always really nice and soothing (even though it actually sounds quite vicious outside right now). Tried doing that for around half hour or so, but the sounds of the kitten trying to break into my room (I guess she's afraid of the rain, maybe?) got to be a bit much and I decided to take a stroll around the house, read some news online, and maybe try to get some sleep in a bit. As luck would have it, it turns out that water had been seeping under one of the doors on the side of the house and made some good headway down the hall. So, to make a long story short.. I spent the past 15-some-odd minutes mopping up water, with a kitten staring at me. At 6AM. Not that it's terribly important, but my current estimate is that it was about a gallon or more of water (probably closer to 2). This doesn't sound like terribly much, but when spread out on the floor, it's amazing how far it can go.

Yay, rain!

Anyway, things aren't all that bad. I'd write something long and detailed, but I'm really quite tired (I went to lay down at 4, and it's already 6). However, this week's been alot of fun, mostly just relaxing and watching television and movies that I haven't seen for awhile. I have to go down and yell at some people at the university next week.. but I'll worry about that on Monday.

Now, why was I up till 4AM? Because I had decided that 2AM was just the best possible time for me to take apart the audio-visual setup in the house, take out a VCR, and replace it with a DVD-Recorder/VCR. This took much longer than I assumed (it was much bigger than the previous device, so I had to cut some holes for the cords, move furniture, etc) and kept me up much longer than I expected. After that, of course I needed to comment in some Japanese person's online journal, which took awhile to compose something witty and sensical in Japanese. Why was I up at 2AM? Well, I couldn't possibly be expected to be in bed before then, now could I?

So, now that I'm not going to float away while I sleep due to the irregular flooding AZ is known for and the kitten is (hopefully) able to entertain herself, I'm going to go for try #2 on sleeping.


Jason