Insomnia

Having been an insomniac most of my life, I often find myself at the computer desk at 2: or 3: in the morning. I guess, like most people, the little men who live in my computer like to sleep at that hour. Things go very slowly. But it is really frustrating to me to click on that icon on my desktop and get the message, "Address not found" and then "Firefox cannot find a server for yahoo.com. Try again later."

When that happens I can't get to my blog, nor anyone else's. Can't check my email. Can't put pictures on flickr. Can't toon. Can't even play mah jongg or solitaire. Might as well go back to bed. And TV at that hour is pretty pathetic.
Mostly infomercials.

I don't really mind if I can't sleep, now that I'm retired. Don't have to get up early unless I feel like it. But when it happens I usually feel kind of dopey in the morning for a little while. Slow to start. That's the way I feel this morning. If I am able to play on the computer for a while in the wee hours, I just keep going into the morning, and take a nap later.

So this morning I am alternately typing on this post, and staring out the front door at the gas line guys. They did turn my mail box back the way it should be, by the way, although it seems to be about three inches higher out of the ground than it was. Now apparently they are repairing - more or less - what damage they did yesterday, all along the street. They told us yesterday that they would replace grass and the ends of driveways, and whatever else was destroyed. If that is what they're doing now, there must be a heck of a lot to do up on the corner, because they've been working on it for an hour. Right now they seem to be on a break. They take a lot of those.

We had no rain yesterday! Today looks cloudy, and they tell us there is more coming. Things are squishy.