A dog returns to his vomit and a sow to her mire, and Sarah and the Clankers are back together and… well… not precisely live (not half of the group, at least) again.
This whole thing is fascinating, because I realized I’d skipped two important songs, the one for the birth of Selbur’s baby and the other Ad Leed listening to the gem playing. (The problem is you tube won’t let me reorganize the playlist. Sorry.)
And then, once I’d done that, it just kept pouring out, so there’s two more songs. I’m not going to apologize for the Looking For Home song. As weird as it is there isn’t anything even vaguely perverse going on, it’s the nature of the people of No Man’s Land, is all. This book is ridiculously wholesome despite itself. And if you read the book, you’ll sigh and say with me “Skip, you idiot.” Actually that also applies to the last song. Anyway.
According To Hoyt 
C4C
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Sarah, at least it’s not the Army….
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_back.htm
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Thank you.
I will be jumping back to that this weekend…
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Sarah and the Clankers is a great name for a band!
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I’m using it as a name for the songs.
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We’ve had this discussion before. Do NOT taunt the happy fun clankers. This is not Mycroft or Mychelle we are dealing with. This is Hal, GlaDoS, Harlie, Skynet and the Forbin Project all rolled up into one. Put down the song prompts and step away slowly…
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But but but I have SO MUCH FUN.
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Dear BBESP, if you get around tuit, could you do an unofficial ordered playlist? I’m brained-out and can’t remember the order without yet another reread of NML, and won’t have the time for a while.
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Yes, of course. Give me till tomorrow. For…. reasons of having to beat my CPAP with a cudgel I woke up dry as the Sahara every hour on the hour last night. A nap helped, in that I’m not walking into things, but I’m not quite functional today.
I’m desperately trying to finish Rhodes to Hell but right now mostly reading myself back into the almost finished novel and being furious at myself that I threw out world building like chaff. I’m actually thinking of having one of the AI beasties go through and give me a world bible. Would help so much.
Anyway, I need to get back in the mood, and it’s being a slog.
(For those in the audience and lest I get suspected of “writing with AI” because of speed, I have 48 novels lying around in various degrees of completion, from the last 15 years of getting increasingly ill and incapable of writing, and whatever NML was doing blocking the pipeline. And my brother, who is 72 is at death’s door right now — that didn’t help the sleep, no. I’m so far away. Prayers appreciated. He was my best friend and closest confidant 22 years of my life, though later we diverged politically — and I don’t know how long I have. Hence my year of “Finishing as much as possible.” Which will probably turn into two or three years of a book every couple of months, or for short ones, or really close to completion, month.)
Nothing is really working today, though. The combination of whatever it is is making thinking akin to running in molasses. I need to do a couple of chapters of the next Elly novel tonight. It’s the only way I sleep.
Also I need to do a substack. I keep forgetting.
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Oof, understood. Whenever you get the time to do a list, that will be wonderful. I can be patient, or at least fake it convincingly. :)
My sympathties on battling with CPAP/BiPAP. The sleep doc’s people keep trying to get my events to something reasonable, but hypopneas refuse to get better.
FWIW, 7 hours of sleep (full face mask, tube temp at 84F), and I’ll not-quite empty the too-small temp chamber. Lots of things I like about the AirCurve 11, but whoever decided a smaller chamber was a good idea should be staked out on a red ant hill in the desert…
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And humidity setting at 5. 6 will empty the chamber.
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Can we get a spot for the designers of Phillips Dreamstation 2 (and 1 which shed fricking foam into the airflow) on an adjoining anthill? I vote fire ants or bullet ants if available. And yes, the humidifier tubs are good for about 4-5 hours in the winter in New England, where humidity in the house drops to like 15% (don’t pet the catpacitors, you’ll regret it and so will they…). On top of that, the stupid tubs have hoards of nooks and crannies that are hard to clean. Nooks and crannies are fine for english muffins not so good for something you need to clean.
And yes my mouth is constantly dry when I wake up, even with the humidifier at max. I have a Yeti type 20oz mug of ice water at the bedside to help alleviate that. It has to be a covered cup lest the cat(pacitor)s decide that gravity testing is in order and I get an impromptu baptism.
That said I remember BEFORE the CPAP/APAP/BIPAP and remember being so tired that I would have to pull over driving to work and nap in a parking lot for 15-20 minutes lest I fall asleep driving. I also kept the whole house awake with my snoring. I’ve had a cpap for almost 25 years and the difference is amazing. Is it an absolute pain in the posterior fundament? Heck yes. Does it beat the alternative (worsened heart disease, BP and potential for accidents)? Also Heck Yes. My mom died at 62 of various forms of heart failure. Given what I remember of her snoring (and the oh so distinctive sound of apneas) when I was a child I suspect she’d basically had sleep apnea (with a bunch of related issues) most of her adult life. I’m 65 and in far better shape than she was in her late 30’s early 40’s.
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My maternal grandfather, and dad. Individually they raised the roof. Together? I’m surprised the campgrounds didn’t empty out when camping (every weekend), even after started using pickup campers (solid walls instead of tents). Or the neighbors on holidays weren’t calling in noise complaints. Seriously their snoring was that bad.
I’ve mentioned before about my BIL complaining about how bad it was when their hotel room (fancy hotel too, so better sound insulation) was next to mom & dad’s hotel room, for youngest sister’s wedding. We joked that was why we got a room in a different wing (not on purpose, but made it sound that way). It is funny how dad’s snoring, generally, never bothered the 3 of us children, growing up. But as adults, no longer living at home? OMG!!!!
I’m sure grandpa’s health was affected, but who knows. He lived to be 95.
Dad OTOH, his health was affected. I’m sure sleep apnea. His mom died just before her 80th birthday. Went to bed Christmas night, didn’t wake up the next morning. Dad died at 73.
My sleep apnea is considered moderate, blocking sleep apnea. I could snore, but nothing compared to dad (per hubby and son) or grandpa. I do not sleep, or nap, without using my mouthpiece that prevents the sleep apnea. What sent me to sleep study wasn’t snoring complaints. It was muscle pain. Entire body. Constant. And exhaustion. Naturally, I can’t have “standard” symptoms.
Ironically my Fitbit sleep profile hasn’t changed that much. Same percentage of wakefulness (that would be the *bathroom breaks). But a lot higher percentages of REM and deep sleep.
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And that is the change you want. The apneas keep you out of the restful deep sleep and REM sleep. It’s like you have 8 hours of cat naps (apologies to cats) strung together and you do not wake up rested. Back before I had the CPAP, I basically did not dream. The EEG on the sleep study showed that. I’ve had a CPAP/APAP/Etc for 24 years. It’s a love/hate relationship as I get older. Staying asleep with the mask on is harder (one more distraction that makes sleep hard). However if I have like a sloppy cold and have to forgo the mask for a night or two, I KNOW there is a difference in my sleep.
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Same. My main symptom was constant pain, everywhere. Did not know I wasn’t dreaming until after treatment started. That was a shock.
It was not explained to me that the wanted profile was same hours of “sleep” but more REM and deep sleep.
Never have had a follow-up sleep lab appointment. The sleep test was the home version. I did have to note that part of that test involved helpful less than year-old kittens. “Oh. Look! Mommy is wearing a new toy!” Doing the sleep study in a lab, would have been a disaster. I do not sleep well if not in my own bed, for a night or two. Makes travel difficult.
Some nights, I swear. I get up. Then the dog needs out. Then Tj (cat) decides, you are up so I get attention. He is very insistent. Usually I can get back to sleep. One of the reasons I use sleep aids when I head to bed. It isn’t that I need help then. But I want to be able to go back to sleep later. Doesn’t always work.
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