We must be in another peculiar moon phase -- I can’t sleep for anything. I laid here for over an hour, wide awake, before deciding it would be better to just get up and find something to do with myself rather than lay here in the dark thinking about the spider with whom I fear to be one of my most intimate companions (more on that story later).

Kendall’s first Upward Basketball game is tomorrow morning (er, I mean THIS morning) and we have to be on court at 8am -- of all the blasted nights for my inner synchronization to be askew. I’m still nursing a dry, hacking cough that came as a bonus with the killer cold that I wrangled with before Christmas. I popped a couple of Benedryl Cold tablets around 3am...maybe those will help get me to sleep...probably just about the time I’ll need to be getting up.

I installed Firefox web browser from Mozilla at Jim’s suggestion. I think I’m really going to like this! It has lots of features that IE doesn’t have, plus reportedly, much less vulnerabilities to exploitation.

I finally got around to cancelling my land line and dialup ISP today. It’s funny how one can get ‘attached’ to such meaningless things as a phone number and ISP. I’ve had that phone number for 6 years now -- though I’ve moved 3 times during that 6 years, I’ve stayed in the same neighborhood so the number never changed. I HATE our phone service here and had always looked forward to the day I could call them and tell them "I don’t NEED your crappy land line anymore." But oddly, I felt a bit of nostalgia in knowing I was giving up my phone number forever. I’d only been with Earthlink for about 4 years, but I enjoyed my service there, as much as one CAN enjoy the sluggishness of dialup. Ah well, the deeds are done...I’m now cabled up and totally digital and wireless in communications. If the satellites go down, I’m screwed...but then, won’t we ALL be.

I think I’ll try dabbling around with one of the puzzles Nomad turned me on to. If that doesn’t wind me down, maybe a book will. If all else fails, I’m sure that I’ll be sleepy by time to get up and going this morning.

Sleepless in SC, signing out.