jikado
Shared on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 13:22 I was awake for 29 hours straight from Sunday into Monday, and now I have no idea what day it is.
Sunday, I woke up at 10 in the morning, and went to work from 2:20 to 3:00 a.m. Monday. Our normal schedule has me staying awake on Monday mornings so that I can drop our son off at daycare at 6:30, then I come back home and sleep the day away. Monday, though, we had scheduled a plumber to come fix our bathtub drain at noon.
I had tried fixing it myself, though I'm not a plumber, then my dad had come over to help, and we got a bit further on the project, but there was a section of pipe that we could not get off, so my dad offered to pay for a plumber to do it, but it had to be 'his guy'. Well, 'his guy' lives over 40 miles away, so I would have felt real guilty if he had driven all that way, only to knock at my door to find I wasn't going to answer, because I was fast asleep.
I sleep like the dead, so I knew that if I had gone to sleep at around 7 or 8, there would be no waking me up until about 4 or 5, and then it would only be by physical force.
So, after dropping off my son at daycare, I put in some serious Guitar Hero 2 time. I was going to fire up Crackdown and find my last 12 hidden orbs using that picasa guide, but I was on a tear in GH2. Eventually, though, as one would expect, my tired mind could not keep up with the skittles flowing down the screen, and I was back to playing the sounds of The Price is Right's Plinko. You try 'Woman' on hard after being awake for 24 hours.
I shut down the 360, trying to think of what to do next with my time. I hopped on the site here, read a few blogs, and then I crashed, right here in my seat. I didn't even see it soming. I clicked on a link for some video on another page, and before it could even load, I was out. Next thing I know, the phone is ringing, it's my wife, and my video has already finished playing. I have no idea how long I've been asleep, and it is at this point where I lose track of what day it is. I check the clock on my pc, and it says it's still only 10:30. Good, I haven't missed the plumber. I talk to my wife, and tell her that I don't think I'm going to make it. She suggests that I take another shower. I do, and now, suddenly, I'm bursting at the seams with energy. I guess there's something to that Axe 'reinvigorating' bodywash, after all.
I decide I'm going to give 'Woman' another shot, now that I have this newfound mental alertness. No such luck, I manage to get through only 76% of the song after multiple tries. I play about 10 other songs, though, and top almost all of my previous high scores. Thinking I'm back in the saddle, I give 'Woman' another shot. 76%. Again. Fuck, that song is hard.
I hit the site again, and a few others, and see that Wednesday there's going to be a new XBLA pinball game. Looks awesome. My son fell in love with pinball not long ago when he went on trip with his grandma to Arizona and the guy she knows down there collects and restores old pinball machines. This will be the perfect incentive to get my son to learn to ride his bike.
The plumber was a real nice guy, and arrived at about 12:15, and was finished by 1:30. He gives me the bill, and it's then I see why my dad insisted on calling him. Less than $100! The other guy I had out here for something else suggested it might cost around $400-$500. Nice.
The plumber leaves, so I thought about just hitting the sack, but knew I wouldn't until I got some food into my internal organs, so I fire up the oven to make a frozen pizza. I wasn't real crazy about having the oven on when I was so tired, but I did manage to stay awake long enough to eat my pizza, then I crashed on the couch at about 3 in the afternoon. It was a good sleep. My wife woke me at 6, she had brought me some sliders( which don't slide for me, hehe), then we watched Heroes at 8. I slept during the commercial breaks. The wife and kid went to bed after Heroes, I retreated to the basement to play some more Guitar Hero, then went to bed around 11:30. Another good sleep, this time, much longer.
My son woke me at about 8:30 and we had breakfast. I was pretty excited to get downstairs and download that pinball game, but I couldn't find it. Oh, it's only Tuesday. That doesn't make sense to my internal clock, though. It should be Wednesday. I think I'm messed up not just from the lack of sleep, but that the fact that I didn't sleep Monday away like normal. So Monday feels like it was Tuesday. I've also read that being awake for more than 24 hours at a time is the equivalent to a blood-alcohol content of .08% So I guess I was drunk by the time I went to sleep?
Sunday, I woke up at 10 in the morning, and went to work from 2:20 to 3:00 a.m. Monday. Our normal schedule has me staying awake on Monday mornings so that I can drop our son off at daycare at 6:30, then I come back home and sleep the day away. Monday, though, we had scheduled a plumber to come fix our bathtub drain at noon.
I had tried fixing it myself, though I'm not a plumber, then my dad had come over to help, and we got a bit further on the project, but there was a section of pipe that we could not get off, so my dad offered to pay for a plumber to do it, but it had to be 'his guy'. Well, 'his guy' lives over 40 miles away, so I would have felt real guilty if he had driven all that way, only to knock at my door to find I wasn't going to answer, because I was fast asleep.
I sleep like the dead, so I knew that if I had gone to sleep at around 7 or 8, there would be no waking me up until about 4 or 5, and then it would only be by physical force.
So, after dropping off my son at daycare, I put in some serious Guitar Hero 2 time. I was going to fire up Crackdown and find my last 12 hidden orbs using that picasa guide, but I was on a tear in GH2. Eventually, though, as one would expect, my tired mind could not keep up with the skittles flowing down the screen, and I was back to playing the sounds of The Price is Right's Plinko. You try 'Woman' on hard after being awake for 24 hours.
I shut down the 360, trying to think of what to do next with my time. I hopped on the site here, read a few blogs, and then I crashed, right here in my seat. I didn't even see it soming. I clicked on a link for some video on another page, and before it could even load, I was out. Next thing I know, the phone is ringing, it's my wife, and my video has already finished playing. I have no idea how long I've been asleep, and it is at this point where I lose track of what day it is. I check the clock on my pc, and it says it's still only 10:30. Good, I haven't missed the plumber. I talk to my wife, and tell her that I don't think I'm going to make it. She suggests that I take another shower. I do, and now, suddenly, I'm bursting at the seams with energy. I guess there's something to that Axe 'reinvigorating' bodywash, after all.
I decide I'm going to give 'Woman' another shot, now that I have this newfound mental alertness. No such luck, I manage to get through only 76% of the song after multiple tries. I play about 10 other songs, though, and top almost all of my previous high scores. Thinking I'm back in the saddle, I give 'Woman' another shot. 76%. Again. Fuck, that song is hard.
I hit the site again, and a few others, and see that Wednesday there's going to be a new XBLA pinball game. Looks awesome. My son fell in love with pinball not long ago when he went on trip with his grandma to Arizona and the guy she knows down there collects and restores old pinball machines. This will be the perfect incentive to get my son to learn to ride his bike.
The plumber was a real nice guy, and arrived at about 12:15, and was finished by 1:30. He gives me the bill, and it's then I see why my dad insisted on calling him. Less than $100! The other guy I had out here for something else suggested it might cost around $400-$500. Nice.
The plumber leaves, so I thought about just hitting the sack, but knew I wouldn't until I got some food into my internal organs, so I fire up the oven to make a frozen pizza. I wasn't real crazy about having the oven on when I was so tired, but I did manage to stay awake long enough to eat my pizza, then I crashed on the couch at about 3 in the afternoon. It was a good sleep. My wife woke me at 6, she had brought me some sliders( which don't slide for me, hehe), then we watched Heroes at 8. I slept during the commercial breaks. The wife and kid went to bed after Heroes, I retreated to the basement to play some more Guitar Hero, then went to bed around 11:30. Another good sleep, this time, much longer.
My son woke me at about 8:30 and we had breakfast. I was pretty excited to get downstairs and download that pinball game, but I couldn't find it. Oh, it's only Tuesday. That doesn't make sense to my internal clock, though. It should be Wednesday. I think I'm messed up not just from the lack of sleep, but that the fact that I didn't sleep Monday away like normal. So Monday feels like it was Tuesday. I've also read that being awake for more than 24 hours at a time is the equivalent to a blood-alcohol content of .08% So I guess I was drunk by the time I went to sleep?
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