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Sleep, Blisters and Star Trek

So, I've not been sleeping all that well lately. It's happened before, and it'll happen again. I find that I really only talk about sleep when I'm not getting it. Eh, such is the way of the human condition. We only talk about the s*t that's pissing us off... or if we're in exstatic bliss. Which sleep isn't something that would ever do to a person. I mean, no matter how wonderfully you sleep, you'll never feel so great about the sleep as, say, the marathon session of... we'll use a Sim's 2 phrase... Woo Hoo™ that got you to sleep in the first place. Alternatively, the keg of beer you drank that allowed you to pass out in peace. Seeing as I've had neither a marathon session of Woo Hoo™ or a keg of beer lately, I've not been sleeping well (this is of course assuming that these are the only two situations where you'd sleep well -- which is false. I have not, however, been getting any of the various other stimulants or depressants that would let me sleep well). So, I'm tired -- but that makes me reasonably productive. Why? Well. Hell. I don't know. And... uh... Don't ask questions that you don't want to know the answers to!

So, today I came home from work early, for which I feel like an asshole. But -- that's another show. Anyways, I got home and I started working on about three projects at once. Which ended up being about two. Anyways, I got BitPim working for the old phone so I could get everything I wanted off of it, and then onto the new phone -- but I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. Before I actually got BitPim working (and yes, this really is the way I work. I start three projects at once and then finish two of them while still thinking about the third and a few more that I haven't started yet) I started working on the Reciever. The Reciever. Ahhh... what to say about it.

I got Jo a couple/three years ago for Christmas. I think she wrote about it. Anyways, the short version of the epic that is this reciever (which I noticed she refered to as an equalizer -- which she wouldn't do now but at that point she'd only known me for but a few months) is that it's died a couple of times. The latest death was just a few short weeks ago when I set up some speakers in the kitchen so I could listen to music whilest cooking or cleaning without blowing up the house with the Wall o' Sound™ that would have been required to get music into the kitchen at a listening volume. So the reciever is dead. I didn't think this was a problem, I figured that it blew it's fuse (literally) and I could just take it down to Bill's and get it fixed. I then proceed to procrastinate for about two weeks.

"What? Bill's is closed? Why? He's getting medical tests? Oh man... that's terrible. I hope he's ok."

"What? Bill's is still closed? When is he going to open up again? I really hope he's ok."

Then I get an e-mail from the Cap. "FYI: Bill's is closing -- going out of business sale the 26th-27th."

So, I went to Bill's yesterday (and yes, I remember that I was talking about a project, I'm getting back to it) and got about $140 worth of speaker cable, needles for a turn table, a turn table, two pairs of speakers, a 4-way speaker select that maintains an 8ohm load on the reciever no matter how many speakers I activate, and the Eddie Murphy music album on cassette. Rock. Anyways, I remembered that the reciever was broken so today, while I was in the middle of the BitPim project, I took the reciever apart and found the fuse. Yup. Broken. Then I decided to go to Bill's again.

It was at this point that I kept working on BitPim and watching Star Trek: First Contact. 45 minutes later Jo and I left for Bill's. I got four fuses and a chance to thank him for everything -- which I was happy about. We got home, I finished work on BitPim then popped the fuse back in and fired up the reciever. It seemed ok, so I ran new speaker wire to the speakers in the kitchen (I was using a modified 8-connector telephone cable), set up the speaker select, got the reciever back in place and then proceeded to play some music through AirTunes to the kitchen and the living room. I love being a geek. I get to do all sorts of fun projects.

I got the stuff with BitPim working too -- although I can't copy programs -- and now have all my stuff on the new phone. So rock again.

I'm going to go find food now. Later.

-Jon