Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

As is usually the case when I get into something that drains into my chest, it takes a while to recover. My voice is coming back. I went to Walgreens today and got some Mucinex to try and encourage the mucus to break up.

My sleep schedule is still a bit disrupted. It's as though I was just getting used to BST before being yanked back to PDT. It's not too awful, given how early I start work, but I'm shutting down earlier because I haven't paid off the sleep debt yet.

I'm glad this year's Worldcon is in the same time zone as I am.

We're getting into a part of the year where it's particularly difficult for me to get enough sleep. Even with pieces of insulation in the west-facing windows of the bedroom, it's hard to get it dark. I generally try to get to bed by 8 PM or earlier because I need eight hours of sleep most of the time these days, and it doesn't get dark until considerably later. It makes me wish we were on year-around standard time.

Another 3 AM start today. Things went okay, but by the time we got to Noon PT, I was done. I laid down and slept for several hours before being awakened by yet another phone spammer. Because of the nonprofit corporations on whose boards I sit, I'm targeted by sales calls that assume that all corporations have millions and millions of dollars to spend, and have a difficult time contemplating all-volunteer organizations with no employees and no reason to spend vast sums of money on their services. After all, isn't it illegal to not make a profit?

Anyway, I hope to get caught up on sleep tonight and put in an ordinary work day tomorrow.

I'd cross-post this to my LiveJournal, but I'm getting 403 errors trying to open LJ.

Kayla woke me up at 2:45 AM this morning. While it was a pretty good day, I am definitely ready to get to bed early, as I can barely keep my eyes open here at 6:30 PM.

Kayla had a big day today, and went to breakfast at the Wigwam this morning instead of her normal Thursday, for reasons she explains on her journal. While she was right with me here all day, it was a a long work day, with some pretty intense work keeping us busy. It's a good think she went to breakfast today, because there won't be time for it on Thursday, on account of I have to do some work early in the morning to take the place of our person in India who normally sets up our daily workload because he has the day off. In the meantime, I'm running short of sleep, so I'm going to see if I can stop Kayla from bouncing off the walls (understandably so) and get some rest tonight.

I slept a whole lot yesterday, but I need more. Kayla seems to have more energy than I do. Maybe that's why I received a comment today saying that she looks ten years younger than I do.

For various reasons, I only got about four hours of sleep on Tuesday night, and I was sleepwalking through the Day Jobbe most of the day. Much catching up of sleep needed.

I don't understand why the DST time change disorients me much more than traveling (and crossing time zones) appears to do. For the past couple of days, I've been falling asleep in the late afternoon, sleeping for several hours, then being up for a few hours, then going back to bed. I think I'm getting the same total number of hours of sleep, just in two separate stretches.

Because of both me and the Astro being out of service for the past two weeks, we were behind on our grocery shopping. So this morning at 2 AM, we set out to Winco Foods in South Reno and did a pretty large grocery run. It took a while and cost a lot, but we have the larder refilled. The minivan ran without problems.

Lisa's sleep schedule is such that when got home, it was the end of her "day." I, however, had slept for about four hours overnight and drank a bunch of coffee to keep me awake for the drive to/from Reno, and consequently I could not go back to bed. I went and had breakfast at the Wigwam (arriving just as they opened), then later in the morning ran over to Walgreens for a few miscellaneous items that I've wanted to get for a while, and otherwise took it relatively easy. But there's a good chance that I'm going to fall into bed early this afternoon.

Because of all of the caffeine I drank yesterday to stay awake for the drive home, I was awake until after 1 AM. In retrospect, I might have been better off to have stopped and spent the night at one of the small motels in Grass Valley.

I figured that I'd sleep much of the day, but for some reason I woke up at 5:30, only an hour after my normal work day alarm time. Rather than go back to sleep, I got up, got dressed, and went to the Wigwam for breakfast. As their first dine-in customer of the morning, I had a quiet and uneventful breakfast, albeit that it's still hard to eat it all under the influence of the Ozempic.

Aside from that and going to get a few perishables later in the morning, I did not do a whole lot. I've been doing a little bit of planning for Westercon/BayCon and for Worldcon. I have even got some interesting ideas for both conventions, but I'm not going to write about them here just for now until some of them mature.