September 27, 2006

LOSING SLEEP TO READ ABOUT SLEEP LOSS -- by Steve Nadis

I subscribe to a ton of magazines, way more than I can keep up with, and they tend to pile up, just like those sudoku puzzles I clip from two newspapers every day. Last night, I forced myself to stay awake to work my way through the daunting pile of periodical literature. The last thing I read, struggling to keep my eyes open, was an article entitled: "Sleep Loss Affects More than the Brain." It detailed a long litany of things that sleep deprivation can do to you: cognitive deficits, cardivascular risk, a weakened immune system, and so on and so forth. After awhile, with my eyelids growing heavier by the second, I couldn't take it any more. "Who needs it?" I finally said. "I'm staying up to read this?"
Posted by Snake at 22:59:35 | Permanent Link | Comments (5) |
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1 - Don't worry, Snake. Scientists have already identified the major cause of sleep deprivation: kids. The breakdown in kid-related sleep interruptions is as follows:

Midnight feedings - 13%
Diaper change - 6%
Bug in the room - 22%
Weird noise - 17%
Bad dreams - 26%
Out late w/ friends and car - 16%

Luckily, the cure is pretty simple. You just ship the kids off to college.

Hope that helps. (Comment this)

Written by: gatemouth at 2006/09/28 - 07:47:29
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2 - Thanks Gatemouth, you sound like a man who knows of which he speaks. (Do I see a Celebrity Guest Column in the offing?) (Comment this)

Written by: Snake at 2006/09/28 - 08:05:20
3 - Don't lose sleep over this, but... Did U see today's (Thurs) Globe? Lower right hand corner. Talks about Posts that can come back & bite the Blogger... in a Court of Law!
Not that'd you'd ever be in court...;)~ Apparently posts have been cited more than once as "evidence" as to, for example, the mind-set of the blogger/defendant in question.
Maybe ya need to "cull out" any particularly critical posts ;)... oh, Wait! That'd mean deleting nearly all of your Archives! Eh... scr_w it. (Comment this)

Written by: Marco Polo at 2006/09/29 - 01:40:52
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4 - Thanks Marco, I clipped that article & plan to write a post on it. On second thought, maybe I won't: Anything you say can and will be used against you... (Comment this)

Written by: Snake at 2006/09/29 - 07:52:34
5 - how can you make so nice blog ! (Comment this)

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