i hate not being able to fall asleep, and even more when i know why i can't seem to fall asleep. there are times when i really hate that my mind likes to go off to the races.

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nitwit

according to the clock on my laptop, it's 735am. i should still be asleep, but thanks to the holiday we call 'labor day' and a nitwit, i'm up.

i'm not annoyed at the garbage men for picking the trash up on a morning when i'd rather be sleeping, i'm used to it so i'm generally pretty good at falling back asleep. like most areas i've lived, if there is a holiday, trash gets bumped a day, and friday is our usual day. so a few times a year, garbage is picked up on saturday. it's worse in the summer because i'll have a window open (my problem this morning), but then they go away and i'll doze off.

this morning however, they came a little later than usual (45-60 mins later) and just as i was dozing back into blissful slumber, my phone rings. so i groggily reach for it and make a vain attempt at recognizing the caller, but as i'm also on call this weekend, if someone else in the department calls me, it might be their number.

so i answer it only to have someone ask me if linda is here. so in a very groggy voice, i reply, no, wrong number. he did at least say he was sorry. and i spend the next 10 mins trying to fall back asleep. didn't happen and rather than try and force myself to go back to sleep, i am now up.

tired.

groggy.

and annoyed. this will pass, but for the moment, i'm annoyed.

the only saving grace is that the pager didn't go off at some ungodly hour. i should be mostly safe for the rest of the day now. mostly.

(points to someone who picks up that modified reference. now i'm less annoyed.)

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i always hate mornings like this

around 530 i just woke up for no real apparent reason and i've been up since. i tried going back to sleep, but my stomach started to rumble and just wouldn't stop, so here i am, your humble and tired Molius.

at least i was able to get home an hour early last night. one of our offices is getting new rugs in the next few days, so i had to head up there to help break down the PCs, which obviously took longer than i was hoping. i was overly optimistic that this would be a surgical strike and i'd be able to go home by 330-4. that didn't happen, but still, getting home an hour early and in sunshine was nice.

work has been busy this week, and things are only going to get more complicated as we see to getting a new phone system (VoIP) and the CIO has decided that he wants Sr. Management to get Crackberries. that's going to be nothing short of a disaster, but our CIO isn't going to see it that way.

at least we can say the following: i'm sorry, however we do not have a crackberry, nor have we actually seen one, so you are going to have to call the CIO for help.

something tells me after a few times of this, our CIO is going to get at least one for the department. which then pushes us closer to that 15 user threshold that will cause all kinds of problems...like the 16th user is going to cost $3300, but i'll leave that story for the day when it happens...and it will.

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