I have discovered many things in my life that will interfere with my ability to sleep. Some of these are well worth being tired the next day, however, the one I discovered last night was not really worth it. Last night I made the unfortunate decision to purchase eggnog, a substance that I have a rather high affinity for. However, my mind and my body to not always agree, and that particular power struggle reaffirmed itself again last night. It seems that my mind wanted to drink some eggnog. “I deal with temptation by yielding to it.” –attributed to Mark Twain. However, things got out of hand, and before clearer heads prevailed, I had ingested about a litre of the stuff. Hmmm, didn’t get sick or anything, but sleep was an elusive figure last night. In fact, I didn’t get ANY sleep last night, and can only blame myself for my eggnog transgressions. It wasn’t like I was held down and forcefed the stuff was it? I actually surrendered myself to consciousness and just got up early and went to school. So I’ll add this to the list of things not to do right before I go to bed. Last weeks addition on the list : don’t drink two litres of orange juice before you go to bed either. If I had ingested alcohol, I could have understood the problems. By the way, if you ever have a hangover, Never open a can of dogfood.
Should I be apprehensive about all this year 2000 glitch stuff? I think that even more annoying than any problems that will result from it is the popular term now being used : Y2K . AAAAAAAHHH. Somehow, this term just grates me the wrong way. Is “Year 2000” too long for people to say? Maybe we should talk completely in abbreviations? Maybe I should just stop looking for things to make sense. Like the phenomenon of hot water heaters…. why do you have to heat hot water. As for the year 2000, I have heard everything from 1) Nothing will happen and 2) everything will happen. Everything being all things that are rather bad. I don’t know, but I do know that I would like to kick every programer/engineers ass that decided to continue the mind numbing stupidity of maintining the convention of a two digit date that was only done because “thats the way its always been done”. Couldn’t everybody have woken up ten years ago to the fact that these systems might still be in use when the actual date turned into the dreaded “00”? Just a thought.