View From the Bushes

Last night was pretty bad. I took a nap in the afternoon and I may have overdone it, because when 11:30 rolled around (which is in itself later than I should have retired) I couldn't fall asleep. Of course, my condition was not helped by my youngest daughter (1 yr. old) who was in bed with us because she was sick. Not only did her breathing sound like an air compressor, but at all times she made sure to have a knee, foot or elbow jammed somewhere in my back. Finally after an hour and a half of it I decided to get up. Of course, I was too tired to do anything productive, but after checking my e-mail and surfing the web a little bit, I decided to sleep on the couch.

It was a fitting capstone to an otherwise unproductive weekend. Because of how little I got done (mostly attributable to my wife's absence) I decided to delay the new Xenogenic NPC and just focus on getting another adventure out the door on Saturday. Of course, my family is trying to sabatoge that as well by scheduling a family get-together on Saturday evening, which I'm sure will take up four or five hours. I've already started on the adventure and I'm hoping to get a big chunk of it done this evening, though I'm already feeling the effects of the sleep deprivation, so it will be interesting to see how far that goes.

I missed linking to an article discussing how long electricity would last if zombies took over a la Dawn of the Dead. I found the article remarkable not only for some pretty solid facts but also its great sense of humor. While I was reading the article, it occured to me that my watch is solar-powered, which means that when the apocalypse does come, assuming I can find food and water, that I should be able to tell the time (not to mention altitude, direction and barometric pressure) for many years after the fall of civilization.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross