A good effort.

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To bed early?  Not on your... uhrm my... life.  An hour or two, it seems, just... watching the dark... darken... or something.  I even believed, before getting into bed, that I was tired.  Nope!  I do have the day lamp down stairs and set up, with the book I will be reading beside it.  The alarm is still set for the time that would have been an emergency outer limit wake-up time.  My bedroll is still comfortably set for good sleep.  I even let the girls in.  Somehow, with them messing about and walking on me, I often sleep more soundly lately.

I have things to do tomorrow, and will still make every effort to get to them.  Here it is, 2:50 though, and I don't see sleep anywhere on the horizon.  I hope that lamp works.  I did a bit more reading regarding the use of a sun lamp and the use of melatonin.  I can't seem to find the information I need though.  I am pretty sure strobing the brights while I sleep, somehow, will neither work to reset my timetable or make the lamp last very long.  And waking at 3:00 in the morning to take melatonin isn't exactly how I am going to reset my clock.  Next...

I did read a bit about how filtering out blue light might actually help, along with those other things.  And, yes, I think the studies seem to be reasonable.  It might be worth a try.  So, while scouting blue light filtering goggles I ran right smack into gothic and Renaissance clothiers and jewelers.  Bleh.  As I may have mentioned, I was goth before there was such a thing.  These kids today, costuming up.  Hmm, anyway...  I did see a few things and found a jeweler I had thought lost.  I have several pieces of their work from before they were popular, at least on this side of the ocean.  As it turns out they have been in business since the mid-1400s.  Go reason why goths would... or is it the other way around?  Oh yes, I did see something I very much desire and a ring any true American should appreciate.  Several things, actually, including some pieces that resemble pieces I have lost (minus the gem, thankfully I have a Dremel for that perhaps) and another piece I should like to own on top of that.  But... money, money, money, so just... thoughts.  Ah well.  But I did find blue light eliminating goggles too.  Seriously, it was the only ones I could find after serious searching.  Hey, they are double duty.  While helping me with sleeping, potentially, they would do well in, say, a desert festival or something?  Dang kids?

Well, I suppose, I could try to get a bit of rest in.  Now that it is 5:10 (that "research" took some time).  I will still try to rise with the alarm, or shortly after.  A reset or two might be expected.  Though with things to do, one never knows.

Uhrm, good... night?  Sort of.  Hush...  You...