Late Nights and the Following Mornings
Last night, late Erin and I drove to the Salt Lake City Airport to pick up her brother. That costs, outside of gas (none of which matters, in case anyone was wondering) about $1.00 to park and then go inside to wait for him to walk out along the hall that dumps people into the baggage claim area. We got there early, saw that his flight had landed, I noticed that the gate was TBD and the baggage claim was 1 and so we found a place to sit down. Almost as soon as we sat down, he walked out. His flight was still marked TBD.
As we left the airport, a powerful-bad smell permeated the car (outside heated air) that caused both Erin and I to scrunch our noses. Erin said the smell was of heavy brine. Her brother wanted to know what that was. I turned off the heater until we were farther along and was too tired to try to pay attention to the series of (seemingly) non-sequitur conversations that passed between the other two occupants of the car.
The result, since we woke up around 6 a.m. yesterday morning to go to the doctor for the ultrasound which can be seen here. I didn't go back to bed as I had to go to work, go to a meeting, class, then back to work and home. I did expect to take a nap at some point but a new notebook was screaming my name and I decided to cozy up to the notebook rather than sleep... while I watched BoyzIIMen sing on Don't Forget the Lyrics.
It's amazing the shows you fall into watching at night when you are no longer working. Weird. I was actually flipping back and forth between Don't Forget the Lyrics and the new season of LOST, even though Charlie appears to be dead and only six members of the Oceanic Flight actually make it off the island (the stories are being told in present time (island) with flash-forwards to a period when they survivors are no longer on the island). This is an interesting conceit, from a different direction from what the producers were using in the first three seasons; and I am still trying to decide whether or not I am enjoying this new season. Sure, they drag me into story lines (e.g. spending an entire season killing this character by not killing him... thanks Desmond) and then frustrate me by not moving those same storylines forward either quickly enough or in a way that I feel like I should be back next week to see what happens.
24, my current guilty pleasure for seasonal TV watching, has been delayed until January 2009. This is disappointing, but given the fact that Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) spent some of the production months in one of the L.A. County prisons for drunk driving and probation violation, it is probably one of the best things to happen to the series. What caught me off guard, though, in the pre-season run-up and rumor mills has been that Tony Almeida was making a comeback after being killed at the beginning of Season 4. I was curious as to how they were going to pull that off - oh, and instead of being a possible successor to the Jack Bauer crown, he is a bad guy.
Anyway, TV watching aside, we got home (after picking up and then dropping off Erin's brother) after midnight and went to bed. Sleep does not feel very good (to me) as I felt like I was up and down all night long. I do know that at one point Erin said, "John, you're snoring on me," which caused me to have to roll over and snore in the opposite direction.
The outcome was that I did not get up when my alarm went off this morning. I did move from the bed to the sofa after Erin got up and got ready for work. I won't share why the move, but the movement caused me to pull one of the blankets over me and to go back to sleep. At one point between when Erin left and when I finally got up, I thought I heard my phone "ping" with a new message sound... but it didn't. And the phone was next to my head and I'd gotten bedroom pillows to lay against rather than the front room sofa pillows. Nice.
Getting up was hard. I still don't (exactly) feel like I got much (if any) sleep. I did go back to being cozy with the new notebook this morning, checked my email, and tried to call my webhost for the majority of the websites in response to an email I got yesterday from the company. When I spoke with the designated CSR to help and resolve the issue (I am transitioning from employee to customer and there are hoops that I still get to leap through) the person was so inept I ended up hanging up on her and emailing the person I'd emailed back and forth with yesterday. It was interesting.
Actually, I wrote a rather long email about the ineptitude of the employee and how, as a customer, I didn't appreciate the tone and nature of the call only to delete everything that was not immediately germane to what needed to happen. I am still waiting, hours later, for the individual to email me back with what needs to happen.
Truth told, I can see why some people get frustrated enough with that company to walk away with a bad taste in their mouths. In this case, I am more than a bit frustrated. But, it will get resolved and I can move on.
When I couldn't immediately take care of the issue from yesterday (which suddenly reminds me of other things that need taking care of that I have not done yet... dang), I decided that the best solution was to get dressed and go to class and then work. Even though I wanted to sit around home and do nothing... well, not nothing I did have some plans, I do need to bring in some money to help pay the bills and I do need to do well in my classes... anyway, I packed up my stuff and went to school.
The last couple of days has been interesting and exciting.
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