The Ranting Room

^ What works for one person may not necessarily work for another person, but then again, meditation sounds like it's worth a shot.

You might want to do some walking, cycling whatevs during the day, so that your body is tired when night arrives. If I don't use my corpus during the day, I'll sleep like sh*t or not at all. 

Dayvenkirq wrote: smartpatrol wrote: This happens to me sometimes, a lot in the past couple of weeks. Some nights I can't fall asleep for hours, sometimes not at all. I'll be trying for two or three hours but I just can't, so then I just get up. I'll be tired all day, and sometimes I take a nap, but when I do, I usually feel all disoriented afterwords, and then when it's time to fall asleep again, I feel nice and awake, for some reason, and then I can't f**king get to sleep! It makes me so god damned mad! It makes me feel terrible and sick. You've tried sleeping pills, right?

nope

How presumptuous is it of record companies to release albums with stickers on them that say "including the hit singles..." on the day that the album is released?  I realize that singles are generally released for radio consumption prior to the actual release of the album, but when the songs aren't hits (as far as I know) it seems silly to already have a sticker on the album that calls them hits.  Case in point, I bought the Alice In Chain album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and the sticker says "album includes the hit singles "Hollow", "Stone", and "Voices".  Granted I rarely listen to the radio, but I had not heard any of these 3 songs prior to the release of the album so what makes them "hit singles".  Also, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is the best song on the album and should really be the "hit single".

This happens to me sometimes, a lot in the past couple of weeks. Some nights I can't fall asleep for hours, sometimes not at all. I'll be trying for two or three hours but I just can't, so then I just get up. I'll be tired all day, and sometimes I take a nap, but when I do, I usually feel all disoriented afterwords, and then when it's time to fall asleep again, I feel nice and awake, for some reason, and then I can't f**king get to sleep! It makes me so god damned mad! It makes me feel terrible and sick.

Tom Ozric wrote: chopper wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: Blacksword wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: I took a 4 km walk by a waterfall not too far from home today and during that course, 5 damn leeches attached themselves to me.  I hate the bloody things.  Leeches being aggressive charity muggers or actual blood sucking leeches..?? Well, actual blood sucking leeches are aggressive charity muggers in some ways, aren't they ??  Yes, the relatives of the segmented worm order.  Damn things, couldn't even feel them.  They are in the trees and on the ground here (as well as in the water).  Never encountered them before.  I won't be going back to that place (Kondalilla Falls) unless in a full body suit. Yikes, I never realised leeches could leap out of trees and attach themselves to you.   Chopper, only Australia and Asia have land leeches (as well as aquatic) - the rest of the world have only aquatic leeches !!

Land leeches? I'm not going to Australia then, I have enough problems with snakes.

Dean wrote: Finnforest wrote: Mmm, I would appreciate hearing about that yes.  Keep in mind I don't need a heavy duty one, we have one of those that works great.  I need a regular lightweight one for 2-4 sheets of office paper.  Those are the ones that never function for me.  Same problems you mention in your post.  Rapesco Luna 727

Thanks, I'm gonna see if this is available from our office supply account

chopper wrote: Dean wrote: Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit ============================================   1 - ∞ ) It's made by Microsoft.      I think that covers everything.     That's true but as much as I hate to defend Microsoft, all the things I've quoted are the fault of the people using it.

Nah, it's all Gates and his mates fault. Most of these "habits" are the result of default settings, and programmers use default settings to encourage people to use software in a particular way or because it's simply the way they use it. When faced with a series of options people will go for the defaults because it's easy, requires no thinking and (because time is everything) doesn't take any time to do. M@X uses default settings on our Search routine here to reduce server overheads - most people search using the defaults, find nothing and give up, those in the know change the defaults and generally find what they're looking for. Microsoft could have set the default options for re-occuring meeting to "week-day" and to stop after 10 occurances or 3 months, but they didn't. They could have used the concept of work-day rather than week-day, but they didn't. They could have used the scheduler to check when you are on holiday or out of the office and not sent you alarms for the meetings you obviously can't attend, but they don't. They could have set the default state to automatically check the scheduler and not allowed booking of meetings that have clashes (Lotus Notes used to do this), but they didn't. They could have made it easier to use "Forward" than "Reply All" (which is how I expect you get copies of forwarded mail), but they didn't.

Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit ============================================

Tom Ozric wrote: Blacksword wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: I took a 4 km walk by a waterfall not too far from home today and during that course, 5 damn leeches attached themselves to me.  I hate the bloody things.  Leeches being aggressive charity muggers or actual blood sucking leeches..?? Well, actual blood sucking leeches are aggressive charity muggers in some ways, aren't they ??  Yes, the relatives of the segmented worm order.  Damn things, couldn't even feel them.  They are in the trees and on the ground here (as well as in the water).  Never encountered them before.  I won't be going back to that place (Kondalilla Falls) unless in a full body suit.

Yikes, I never realised leeches could leap out of trees and attach themselves to you.