Exile
So, I'm coming up on... the third... yeah... week of my self-imposed exile. Or really, the inverse of exile: sequestering, as I've referred to it before. I imagine that this will be the last such week, and that I will have made some move on my thesis before next weekend.
This previous week as been heavily influenced by my car troubles. I was having electrical problems, but I didn't want to just throw a battery at it, and my stupid charger wasn't complaining about the battery's integrity, so I spent many an hour reading forum postings, viewing wiring diagrams, and reading articles on automotive electronics. I also bought a $20 multimeter and started probing like... well several jokes of questionable taste write themselves.
Finally, my charger did complain about the battery (I finally tried starting the recharge at 2 amps, as opposed to 6) and I also read more about batteries in particular, and learned that some of the readings I was getting were too low for a battery to produce unless one of the cells was toast. I purchased a new battery and starting power was reacquired. I still think that my alternator is too weak... producing a mere 13.3 volts. The internet tells me that it should be more in the neighborhood of 13.8 to 14.7, but the internet has been known to lie with wild abandon.
I have also made several maneuvers in reorganizing and cleaning my house. It's almost like one of those things that people live in, now. A bit of room for progress.
Poor sleep has been killing my productivity. Can't get to sleep, and can't stay asleep. By instinct, I don't want to sleep.... ever. I mean, I could spend infinite time doing things, reading, watching stuff, and then posting about it on livejournal for the benefit of, like, 2 people.
Right now I'm suffering a small bit of insomnia. I'm not sure whether to blame too much afternoon coffee, random ill-conditioning, or simply residual annoyance at people being allowed to post dumbness to the interwebs. I just added interwebs to my Firefox dictionary.
I still use Firefox. I suppose I could try Chrome, but Google is perhaps the one company that I think needs no encouragement. Various reasons.
Yeah... I think I just crashed awakeness-wise. Venting often helps. It may just be a way of masking the passage of time, though.
Gonna try the sleep things again. Planning on doing some form of pointless physical activity tomorrow to encourage future tiredness. Treadmill, I'm looking at you. Not literally, because you're in the other room. Treadmill.
This previous week as been heavily influenced by my car troubles. I was having electrical problems, but I didn't want to just throw a battery at it, and my stupid charger wasn't complaining about the battery's integrity, so I spent many an hour reading forum postings, viewing wiring diagrams, and reading articles on automotive electronics. I also bought a $20 multimeter and started probing like... well several jokes of questionable taste write themselves.
Finally, my charger did complain about the battery (I finally tried starting the recharge at 2 amps, as opposed to 6) and I also read more about batteries in particular, and learned that some of the readings I was getting were too low for a battery to produce unless one of the cells was toast. I purchased a new battery and starting power was reacquired. I still think that my alternator is too weak... producing a mere 13.3 volts. The internet tells me that it should be more in the neighborhood of 13.8 to 14.7, but the internet has been known to lie with wild abandon.
I have also made several maneuvers in reorganizing and cleaning my house. It's almost like one of those things that people live in, now. A bit of room for progress.
Poor sleep has been killing my productivity. Can't get to sleep, and can't stay asleep. By instinct, I don't want to sleep.... ever. I mean, I could spend infinite time doing things, reading, watching stuff, and then posting about it on livejournal for the benefit of, like, 2 people.
Right now I'm suffering a small bit of insomnia. I'm not sure whether to blame too much afternoon coffee, random ill-conditioning, or simply residual annoyance at people being allowed to post dumbness to the interwebs. I just added interwebs to my Firefox dictionary.
I still use Firefox. I suppose I could try Chrome, but Google is perhaps the one company that I think needs no encouragement. Various reasons.
Yeah... I think I just crashed awakeness-wise. Venting often helps. It may just be a way of masking the passage of time, though.
Gonna try the sleep things again. Planning on doing some form of pointless physical activity tomorrow to encourage future tiredness. Treadmill, I'm looking at you. Not literally, because you're in the other room. Treadmill.