David, that was some great writing! Baseball Digest should hire you. I was picturing the whole thing, with a film grainyness to it, like NFL films or something! And hoo-rah! Emmett and team pulled it out! That is AWESOME!!!

I'm just getting home now. I should have ages ago, but so glad I didn't. Spent the evening with Daisy Jane and friends. And the night with her husband showing me one of the best places in Dallas. Hot damn. Nice little jazz club, and it's kinda close to my apartment too! I will be heading back there. And he introduced me to a bunch of cool folks. Much better than watching cable. Screw you Time Warner.

OK, with that, I should have been asleep 2 hours or so ago. I hope I'm not grumpy tomorrow!

Thanks, omnis! Man, I don't want to live in Dallas no-how, but I am still jealous that you get to go out drinking with Daisy.

Screw you Time Warner

bears repeating.

I just got to the end of the second season of Little Mosque on the Prairie. Stupid cliffhangers.

ION, I give up on sleep. The past few weeks, some days, I sleep at night. Some days, I sleep during the day. Some days, I sleep for about 20 hours straight. Some days, I'm awake for 20 hours straight. I think I'm averaging somewhere around 12 hours of sleep a day. This is exactly what I felt like last year around this time, when I started going to a zillion different doctors who did a whole bunch of tests and found several things wrong with me, all of which I'm now being treated for, but none of the things they found wrong with me had fatigue as a symptom. I give up.

what time does our bookkeeping hivemind come online? I checked my email too early and a request from the craxy has me ... Boggled.

I'm glad you were able to make a new connection with your sisters, Connie, and that you had a safe trip.

Sox, I thought we talked about checking your e-mail too early!

Connie, I'm glad the trip was as good as can be expected...and glad you made it home safe and sound.

Wacky, wacky sleep issues Hil. Kinda makes me wonder if there is some seasonal, summer-time, melatonin, circadian component to it. According to the Wikipedia article [link] on it, wearing blue-blocker sunglasses a few hours before bedtime can help in getting the body to produce more melatonin in a timely fashion - in your shoes I might be more inclined to try that over taking supplements. I am having a heck of a time finding any corroboration about the blue blockers on any of the reputable health and medicine sites I know of - here's the WebMD article [link] - because of the focus on information about melatonin supplements themselves, rather than on stimulating the body to produce more on its own. I'm not sure that says much one way or the other about the validity of the claim, as there is a citation for that section on the wiki.

Hmm, interesting, Windsparrow. The tiredness started getting noticibly bad last summer, but it had been there for a few months before that. I had a few months this year, maybe April - June, of feeling somewhat better, then started getting tired again.

One thing that all the blood tests found was that my Vitamin D was low, which can lead to fatigue, but it seems weird that it would get worse in the summer. Although, now that I think about it, I tend to hide from the heat more often than I hide from the cold, so I might actually be spending more time inside in the summer. Looks like we're supposed to have highs above 95 today and tomorrow. And my air conditioning is still barely working.

Sox, I thought we talked about checking your e-mail too early!

hand to heart VW, I didn't mean to. I had that feeling that I should though.

Connie - also glad that you were able to reconnect and that going was a good thing.