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Thursday, Jan. 06, 2005 - 8:28 p.m. Big nothing� The first �killer storm� of 2005 turned out to be nothing much. It rained all day yesterday, but the temperature managed to stay above freezing until early morning Thursday (that would be today, I guess. Lack of sleep messes with my equilibrium) This is how I end up sleep deprived. NDDOT management sent us home yesterday at 11 am (to sleep, so we are technically on the clock). I managed to get about 2 � hours of restless sleep (Jay-Dog just can�t stand sleep during the daytime, so he tries his best to wake me up). I was called back into work at 7 pm. Since the air temperature was near freezing up until the cold front finally passed through, I spent most of the evening driving up and down my route. The freezing rain switched over to snow (on my route, anyway) about 1 am. The road turned to crap almost immediately, glazing over and becoming a skating rink in a matter of minutes. This, even though I pre-treated most of it with salt all evening. I drove and treated with salt non-stop until about 4:30 am. At that point, I couldn�t keep my eyes open any longer, so I took my �lunch hour (unpaid) and took a 25 minute, worthless , sitting upright nap along the side of my route. After this (pathetic) recharge, I managed to make it the rest of the night without puling over once. So� For those doing the math- I went almost 25 hours with only a short, restless afternoon nap (2 � hours) and a �sleep or wreck� nap of 25 minutes. I made it home (somehow) without wrecking the Hillbilly truck. Cooked a couple of eggs and toast for my breakfast (sounded good, and I didn�t burn the house down, so that�s good). I tried to watch the tape from last night�s Fightin� Illini win over Ohio State, but could hardly keep my eyes open. Why didn�t I just go to bed? Because I was worried about Lease�s carpool to Springpatch, that�s why. I can�t sleep restfully (Ha! Like I ever do that anyway!) until I am sure she made it the 40 miles over the icy slick roads to her workplace. She called me as soon as she could (8:10 am), and I tripped my way upstairs and went to bed. Knowing that there wouldn�t be any reason for me to go back to work tonight meant that I could shave a little off of my daytime sleep. I made it until 1:30 pm, a total of 5 more (again-restless, due to Jay-Dog) hours of sleep. If I had spent any more time than that in bed, I wouldn�t be able to sleep at all tonight. So, if you add it all up I got almost 8 hours of sleep over the 38 or so hours I was awake over the past 2 days. Normally enough to function. But not when it is cut up in so many small packages. I woke up with a migraine sinus headache. It�s still there 7 hours later, making this effort a struggle. Stop whining, Roadiepig� One good thing about having the afternoon free was that I finally placed all of my seed/bulb/tuber/whatever orders on the Internet. I ended up skipping the Seed Savers Exchange this year. I only had 2 things I wanted from them, and couldn�t justify the shipping added to the product. On the other hand? I placed a big enough order with 4 other suppliers (Park Seeds, Pinetree Gardens, Vermont Bean Seed, and Totally Tomatoes) to keep me busy for the next 9 months. I even ordered strange potato starts (all blue and all red varieties from Pinetree) and Dahlia tubers and gladiola bulbs (from Park). I usually just buy the bargain versions of these items form Wallyworld or the local farmer�s market. Gotta try new things in the garden every year, so I guess the cost is justified. That, and I made enough in overtime last night to pay for the whole lot, too� I�ll leave you with the following photograph: I was filling the bird feeder this morning when I heard a bird singing a song I hadn�t heard in a long time. It was a Blue Jay, a species nearly whipped out by the West Nile virus over the past couple of summers. I ran upstairs to grab the digital, and headed back downstairs. And� Of course, he was gone. Figures. But I did manage to capture this image of a Mourning Dove, resting in the Evil Black Walnut tree fro Hell! before I put the camera away: Considering he was near the top of this tree, the picture didn�t turn out too bad�
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