How often did Mother Theresa recommend helper monkeys?

Oh, all the time! Can't do housework because of leprosy-related missing limbs? Helper monkey! Can't remember to take your malaria medication? Helper monkey! Members of higher castes than your own sneer at you? Helper monkey = guaranteed poop-flinger.

Sadly I've never shared a bed with any Buffistas.

I have slept in the same bed as Sean---in Anne W's nerd hole.

On a serious note, have you looked into having a sleep study done, Sean? A friend had pretty much the same symptoms as you describe. He had a sleep study, and they prescribed a CPAP machine. They said that if he didn't use it, he would die of a heart attack in his forties. I don't know about that, but from what I hear, he's much happier now and nicer to be around. My uncle wasn't quite as bad, although bad enough, but now that he has a CPAP machine, he no longer falls asleep at the dining room table. I know that these studies aren't cheap, but they're mostly covered by insurance if you have it, and perhaps worthwhile even if you don't. I know it's not a helper monkey...

Heh. My dad has a CPAP, which did wonders. He looks like a character out of Pigs in Space when he has it on. Which I am at pains to mention. Frequently. Piiiigs Iiiiinn Spaaaace!

The sleep apnea is worth having checked. Aside from the dangers, it cal also lead to merely unpleasant things. There's a man in my office who was suffering with it - he kept falling asleep. He once fell asleep, at the office, in the middle of a phone call.

Okay, I need feedback on this. DX, are you around? On Thursday, how many people were around, and was it a problem to not have the hosp. suite / would it have been better to have had a hosp. suite on Thurs. ? I need to know whether to say we need a hosp. suite Thurs. - Mon. or if Fri. -Mon. is okay.

There were a lot of people around, but most of them were hanging at Anne's house Thursday night. There weren't a lot of folks at the hotel because of the cost. In LA we got along pretty well without the suite on Thursday because Laura and Brendon let us all hang out in their suite.

Well it's apparently not so bad, as I don't like, fall asleep during the day or anything. Though I'm far too often lethargic, which I'm sure is because of the poor sleeping.

Well, someday, if I ever have health care again, I'll look into the possibility of getting it checked out. Until then, I just keep hoping I don't slip and fall, or really injure myself, or get into a car accident or anything, because I have no covereage of any kind, whatsoever.

My current health plan is Rite Aide.

Umm.... So, hopefully no slipping and falling in SF. Or wherever the next F2F is.

I think the short term sleep apnea solution is to build a circuit that only closes when yoru breathing stops. Circuit closes; you electrocute yourself awake; you start breathing again. Unfortunately, this means sleeping with wires up your nose.

For my next trick, I will build an Erector set that can do my taxes.

If you build an erector set that can do taxes can the cost of the erector set then be written off as a tax expense??

they prescribed a CPAP machine.

Am I the only one who read this as CRAP machine?