Insomnia, and good news

I did a lot yesterday, some of which I should be following up on today, but it's not happening.

Why? Usual reason. No sleep. It's got worse than just not being able to get to sleep - I've started waking up several times in the middle of the night.

I was blaming it on the fact that I took my last Nytol a couple weeks ago and failed to replenish the stocks. I bought some more yesterday. I was really tired when I went to bed last night. Took a Nytol. Didn't help.

I really should go back to work soon, and I wanted to get my sleeping patterns straitened out before I did that. So much for blaming the lack of sleep on work-related stress!

I was a Bad Unemployed Person yesterday and spent quite a bit of money, some of it on stuff I don't remotely need. I did, however, score a spectacular bargain in the form of a £35 top for £5 in Debenham's clearance. I love it & it looks really good on me, but it's also a designer number and I wonder if I should just ebay it new with tags still attached for more than I paid for it.

Stopped in at Travelling Man and I now have the complete set of Mouse Guard. Not only has issue 6 finally made it, they have secured some copies of the elusive issue 2. Now to find some time to actually read it. I read issue 1 when I bought it, but have been waiting to read the rest till I could get my hands on issue 2. I also see from the message board that there's already t-shirts and mugs from cafepress, but there's also going to be cuddly toys and figurines. I know I never buy geek toys, but these are really tempting.

I hate Sky/my cable company (reprise)

Head-up from ivory_goddess

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6389015.stm

Basically, starting next week, Sky 1 won't be available to cable subscribers in the UK.

Sky 1 is the main cable channel that I watch. Both flavours of Stargate are mid-series. Disaster!

I'm aware you can download everything from the net these days, but have previously been too lazy to bother. Regular readers will remember that I just bought a new comfy sofa, so watching stuff on the actual TV set is a lot more comfortable than downloading and watching in the computer room.

Seeing as Grey's Anatomy seems to have disappeared off Living for the time being, I don't think I'm watching anything current on any cable channel other than Sky 1, so if Virgin/Telewest/whoever my cable provider is this week won't give us a reduction in the bill when I call them on Monday, I might cancel the cable, get a Freeview box for More4 purposes, and learn to live with downloads. The bastards will still own us because we get our broadband and phone through them too, and no way am I dealing with changing our providers for those - there are levels of hassle to get equally shitty service that are simply not worth it.

I don't want to live with downloads. I don't care how uncool and dorky it is, I like coming home, turning on the TV and pressing play on the video to see everything that was on the previous evening, without commercials, and without thinking. For the most part we only watch TV when we're eating dinner, which is kind of awkward upstairs, and the rabbits get their time out of their cages, which they can't do if I'm upstairs.

The TV-free snobs amongst you can scoff as you like. I've heard it all before and I'm past caring.