Insomnia, For The Loss!

Random insomnia-borne observations:

  • A couple days after realigning the room, I’m really a big fan. Why didn’t I do it this way the first time?
  • I tried to watch Abrams & Bettes on The Weather Channel last night. Couldn’t do it. I like both their personalities, but I can’t watch the show. Something about it seems really forced, like they’re trying to crowbar a newscast into a lineup full of…newscasts. So, they make it extra newscasty, which, in my mind, just doesn’t seem to work. Watching A&B made me long for the days of the early-to-mid ’90s again.
  • I remember the last time a pitcher went to an NL West team for over $100 million. What are the odds of Barry Zito turning out like Kevin Brown in San Francisco? Zito’s magic avoidance of injury thus far in his career has been impressive, but any guy with a hook like he has is asking for arm problems down the road. The Giants paid a lot of money and once again took this offseason to ridiculously new heights, as if that was even possible. A pitcher the likes of Johan Santana should easily command $20-$25 million a year now on the free agent market. Look for small market teams to be much more guarded with their farm systems as the years roll on.
  • Nothing says Christmas like marshmallow-stuffed snowmen. Nothing.
  • Vacations that take a lot of work and are over-planned totally defeat the purpose, IMO. I’ve been talking to a friend for a few days who has been absolutely exhausted from her vacation in Florida, which was planned out point by point. What’s the point of a vacation where one MUST be up at 9:30 every morning? That’s low value. This friend is now taking a vacation from vacations.
  • Brian Goode’s calling it: Rain on New Year’s Eve. It’s looking pretty solid for that, too. The more I think about it, the more likely I am to stay in at this point, though wandering to a random bar to be selected is not totally out of the question (unless someone wishes to kindly save me from this kind of low value fate).
  • I signed into Classmates for the first time in about a year and a half this weekend, and was reminded why I stayed away in the first place: Errors, ads, and then not being able to do anything without paying a fee…in other words, it’s totally incompatible with Web 2.0. Facebook and MySpace effectively render sites like Classmates pretty much obsolete thanks to their unbridled FREE accessibility and more expressive profile options.
  • I’m looking forward to the new semester, real bad. I’m in several media courses and am really looking forward to getting into the meat of the major.
  • If you have LiveJournal, I’ve got The Blog crossposting to mine now. Add me to your friends list if you like. :)
  • Finally…I have a lot of work to do in Flight Simulator 2004. I’ve been struggling badly with my landings…

It’s bedtime for real now, before the sun comes up. :) Later folks.

  • http://www.lifelessempathy.net/ NotMyBest2Day

    Vacations not being..vacation-y. My mom mentioned this to me a few years ago. If it’s a family that’s going, there is no vacation time at all. The parents have to pack the kid’s suitcases, make sure everything is set up. Have somebody watch the house whilst they’re gone, find transportation to the airport, plan everything in advance, finally make it to the destination, and then they have a non-stop all-day schedule that cannot be interrupted, and then you have to do pretty much everything in reverse once you get home.

    My idea of a vacation: Call in sick with work or school for a few days and set the hammock up out in the back yard. No TV, no radio, just sleep out on the hammock. THAT‘s a vacation. Do absolutely nothing.

  • http://www.lifelessempathy.net/ NotMyBest2Day

    Vacations not being..vacation-y. My mom mentioned this to me a few years ago. If it’s a family that’s going, there is no vacation time at all. The parents have to pack the kid’s suitcases, make sure everything is set up. Have somebody watch the house whilst they’re gone, find transportation to the airport, plan everything in advance, finally make it to the destination, and then they have a non-stop all-day schedule that cannot be interrupted, and then you have to do pretty much everything in reverse once you get home.

    My idea of a vacation: Call in sick with work or school for a few days and set the hammock up out in the back yard. No TV, no radio, just sleep out on the hammock. THAT‘s a vacation. Do absolutely nothing.