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terryclothThis morning I decided to go down to Wonderworld to turn in the order form for... March, I think? That and to pick up any comics from the last week. Little did I know the HORRORS I would face.
The first horror, the one that hit on the way down, was the terrifying, insidious drowsiness. I kept sort of going into a trance, where I wasn't asleep, but I wasn't really conscious either -- I was just driving as if I was in a dream, but still aware of the real world. Partly. Pattern recognition and response times were both way, way down, so I made sure to snap myself out of that state whenever I noticed I was in it, but there really wasn't anywhere to stop and rest until I got down to Burien.
I hadn't felt tired or anything, so I didn't really know why I was having so much trouble keeping awake until after I'd bought the comics and returned to the car to nap, and realized that the heater was turned off. I never turn the heater off, but while it was in the shop being looked at they had, and cold always makes me drowsy, like I'm some sort of reptile. Between the nap I took before setting back out, and restoring the heat, and the... other excitement, I didn't have any trouble staying alert on the way back.
But on the way back up I faced the second horror, rain. Now, you'd think living in the Seattle area would make rain not an issue, but heavy rain hardly ever hits around here; normally all we see is a light drizzle. So today's sudden blinding sheets of rain and six-inch deep pools of water covering half the highway were... stressful. Since I was actually awake, I was able to anticipate the bad areas and slow down ahead of time, it's always scary to blast through a deep puddle even at 50 mph and have the car jerk back and forth...
Once I got home, I played a little Rygar (the PS2 one: It's a cool game, but I'm stuck at a hard part, trying to fight Aristotle without losing all my healing items. Maybe near the end?) and noticed that I'd just missed the first of the Final Four. That is, the last four episodes of Chaotic Century that Cartoon Network had annoyed me by skipping past and starting over. I saw the final three, and they were really neat... the way they defeated the deathsaurer (again) wasn't even a deus ex machina -- they built up to a cheesy dues ex machina ending and then didn't use it because Van came up with a sensible plan instead. }:P
Oh, there was also a fire alarm in the apartment complex. I was one of the three or four people who bothered to go outside until it was verified as being false. There've been so many false alarms... lots of people are going to get killed if the building ever actually burns down.
But I don't know any of them, so it's okay.
The first horror, the one that hit on the way down, was the terrifying, insidious drowsiness. I kept sort of going into a trance, where I wasn't asleep, but I wasn't really conscious either -- I was just driving as if I was in a dream, but still aware of the real world. Partly. Pattern recognition and response times were both way, way down, so I made sure to snap myself out of that state whenever I noticed I was in it, but there really wasn't anywhere to stop and rest until I got down to Burien.
I hadn't felt tired or anything, so I didn't really know why I was having so much trouble keeping awake until after I'd bought the comics and returned to the car to nap, and realized that the heater was turned off. I never turn the heater off, but while it was in the shop being looked at they had, and cold always makes me drowsy, like I'm some sort of reptile. Between the nap I took before setting back out, and restoring the heat, and the... other excitement, I didn't have any trouble staying alert on the way back.
But on the way back up I faced the second horror, rain. Now, you'd think living in the Seattle area would make rain not an issue, but heavy rain hardly ever hits around here; normally all we see is a light drizzle. So today's sudden blinding sheets of rain and six-inch deep pools of water covering half the highway were... stressful. Since I was actually awake, I was able to anticipate the bad areas and slow down ahead of time, it's always scary to blast through a deep puddle even at 50 mph and have the car jerk back and forth...
Once I got home, I played a little Rygar (the PS2 one: It's a cool game, but I'm stuck at a hard part, trying to fight Aristotle without losing all my healing items. Maybe near the end?) and noticed that I'd just missed the first of the Final Four. That is, the last four episodes of Chaotic Century that Cartoon Network had annoyed me by skipping past and starting over. I saw the final three, and they were really neat... the way they defeated the deathsaurer (again) wasn't even a deus ex machina -- they built up to a cheesy dues ex machina ending and then didn't use it because Van came up with a sensible plan instead. }:P
Oh, there was also a fire alarm in the apartment complex. I was one of the three or four people who bothered to go outside until it was verified as being false. There've been so many false alarms... lots of people are going to get killed if the building ever actually burns down.
But I don't know any of them, so it's okay.
