nothing much

stayed home yesterday because i was sick. usual game applies, i go to work and feel terrible, get up the next morning, feel awful, call in sick, and sleep til noon. then i feel fine. which makes me feel like a jackass for taking the day off, but if i hadn’t, it’d have gotten worse, for a week, so yeah.

so i watched tv and played most of portal, post about that and halo brewing but not ready yet.

went to bed on-time-ish at midnight, but could not sleep. my mind wouldn’t shut down. and it wasn’t one of those nights where i can’t stop thinking but it’s not about anything, and i’m just waiting til 7am one way or another? no, this was one of those nights where after an hour or so i realize i’ve basically just written half a story in my head, and it’s pretty good, and i need to write this shit down before i lose it.

so i went to the computer around 2ish, and around 4 i got back in bed and fell asleep. slept like a boulder, and woke up surprisingly rested. i was worried my cold would relapse, but no dice. take that, sinus headache that ruined my wednesday. i’m more powerful on three hours sleep than twelve.

but now it feels like a weeknight, i have to keep reminding myself i don’t have to go to work tomorrow. worse things in life, i suppose.

i like the idea of having my blog archives available for my own perusal, but what i really want is to be able to run blogging software off my hard drive, and keep the archives online just the last year or so. maybe tag favorite posts all year and keep a running best-of, but maybe not either.

on the other hand, i hardly care enough to go to the trouble of deleting the archives myself, so that’s probably not happening. what’s needed is not so much a purge of older content as much as a new direction. breathe some life into this place. a clean break is tempting, but we’ll see how the next six months play out first.