Holes In Thoughts: Methods for Madness #1

Monday, October 22, 2007

Methods for Madness #1

Last night, I blogged about how I couldn't sleep. Instead, I worked from about 10pm to about 4am on graphic design. I got a lot done, actually, and I have no regrets.

But at around 4am, I decided I was tired enough to go to sleep. I had also noticed that there was a precipitation-free hurricane going over Tucson. Wind speeds of around 45-50 miles per hour (!) have been sweeping the city since around midnight last night.

That's fine. I like the smell of fall wind. And the weather's been nice and cool. I dig.

That's before I tried to sleep. Normally, I don't mind a little wind, but my patio has a tin roof. That tin roof has a palo verde tree next to it, and I'm the only one who's trimmed the thing in years and years. There are a lot of branches that sit on top of the patio roof. Normally, this isn't a problem. But when there's 40 MPH winds, the tree drags itself up and down the tin roof.

It sounds exactly like running fingernails down a chalkboard, and it has been going on for 13 hours straight as of 1pm this afternoon.

I can't hear it from the other end of the house, and I eventually realized this at around 8am to catch a few hours of sleep before work.

Think about it for a second, though - I listened to and attempted to sleep to the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard for six hours. Between that and the sleep madness, it's amazing I'm coherent enough to type.

Labels: madness, sleep

posted by Steve @ 12:43 PM

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