rayxr
male - 36 years, United States
Blog 4
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Morpheus Versus Mephisto
Sleep and anti-sleep. I’m caught between them. Thanks to my apnea I don’t get a good rest while I’m out. Apparently my interrupted breathing happens about every minute and so I never slip into a deep cycle.
I’ve done the sleep lab routine once before. I had a doctor who had the personality of a werewolf. Now I’m seeing another doctor who acts human.
I’ve also been through the C-PAP routine. Hooked up with a hose pumping air into me to keep my airways open. I’ll try it again with the new doctor. But before I can give C-PAP another round, I have to be evaluated in the sleep lab and that appointment isn’t until the day after Xmas.
I don’t have a regular sleep schedule. Sometimes I can’t sleep. At least I don’t have a job or I would be really hurting, trying in vain to get enough rest while working regular hours.
In the meantime Morpheus pulls me in one direction – I feel tired too much of the time – while Mephisto keeps me from getting a good rest, preventing me from falling into a deep sleep, then sometimes screwing everything up even more with a bout of insomnia.
So if some of these posts are a bit incoherent, you know why. -
Holiday Rage?
Well, I don't have to worry about it.
Last night ABC-TV news had a segment on those who can't handle the bullshit of the holidays. I've seen news stories in the past about people being victimized by seasonal stress and depression, but now we can add holiday rage. The ABC-TV news segment featured a man who is receiving professional treatment to deal with the seething emotions induced by this hectic time of the year, especially with the bumptious crowds at the shopping mauls. He is learning to deal with his anger.
Apparently holiday rage, according to the experts, can spill over into road rage. I hope no Santas get runned over this year.
Me, I've opted out of eXcessMas. I've told friends that I'm not sending out greeting cards. I'm not bothering running around, trying to find the Perfect Gift That Doesn't Exist. Hey, don't get me wrong: I'm a materialistic person, not some sort of spiritual hippie who's bummed out because the holiday has become pseudo-religious and commercialized. But I decide when and what I buy for gifts. I'm not a desperate rat on Black Friday, pushing aside others to get that one item for $10 less.
What about you? Are you stressing out, try to meet the expectations of the commercializers? Are you struggling to meet the demands of The Ideal Holiday? Are you dreading the fights that might occur when the relatives visit? Well, screw it. Cancel eXcessMas.
Or were you put on this planet to live your life for everyone else? -
Time Traveling UFOs
Over at his Facebox site, http://en.facebox.com/paulkimball/blog/blogid=9...- ,Paul Kimball speculates that some UFO sightings might be time travelers from the future, our descendants stopping by to see how us primitives are (were) doing.
But when you talk about time travel, you can get into all sorts of paradoxes. If someone from the future changes the past, it could end up also changing the future to the point where the time traveler no longer exists, e.g., he kills his great-grandfather. But if the time traveler no longer exists, then how can he change the past?
Maybe time travelers follow a "prime directive" similar to what Gene Roddenberry envisioned when he created the original "Star Trek" TV series. Don't get involved with the natives -- or in the case of time traveler, don't bother your ancestors. You can look, but don't touch.
But even the sighting of a time probe could change history. A driver spots a time probe, is so startled that he has a fatal car accident. Once again the time traveler kills his great-grandpa and so he doesn't exist.
So how to avoid changing history? Simple. Work with what you already have. Time travelers from the future would check the historical records for UFO sightings. Since a sighting has already occurred and the results are known, morph your time machine to fit the description found in the Blue Book files or whatever sources you have. You wouldn't be changing history, you would be creating history as it already happened.
The important detail is to make sure to check all sources so that you know that the sighting involved only your disguised time probe, not something else. After all, you wouldn't want to travel into the past and bump into a secret military craft, knocking it out of the sky. (Unless it already has happened.)
Of course, the worse case scenario would be that you pop in the same time as an ET craft from another world. The aliens might be pissed and chase you back into the future. After all, these aliens created humankind and they don't want humans from another time period messing up their experiment. So they invade the future earth and take out all time-travel machines. "Now" both the past and future are screwed up.
( You get the feeling I should be a well-known, published SF writer? ) -
Helllloooooooo
So far all I hear are crickets.
Ray
