Late, for as desparately early as it is?

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Right.  About that.  I... found a part of the game that... just swallowed me whole.  So far, mostly, this game has been hit or miss, as to retention.  I was beginning to think that the game had no more legs to it.  When a game becomes too painfully boring, it gets set aside.  Then another game is looked for, to purchase or already in my collection.

I thought this was going to happen, but the last two nights, the game kept me going from... when I could wake until way after I thought I'd be in bed.  What was it?  Oh!  It was 8:15 when I went on to bed.

I had told a friend I would be to lunch.  Huh?  Well, not... everything I say is going to happen.  But I did put on my best shoes, and tried.  I set the alarm for 10:00 (I knew I wouldn't wake then) and 11:00.  Doubts?  That's what hope and faith are for, the ugly sisters in the fourmagetoire?  Shut up.  Now charity I like.  :p

Still, set and... there.  Lunch, so I was thinking noon?  Or did he write "noon" somewhere?  That is what time I thought it was.  So, I... got on in and crashed hard.  My late bedtimes, including yesterdays, was around four.  So... yeah.  And I was pushing it hard yesterday, up an extra four hours.  Doing that, over on top of what was done yesterday.  Brutal.

Still, at about 11:20, on the third snooze, I... decided now or never.  I did get up, down into the bathroom, and stripped for a shower.  Teeth brushed, the water set, then in.  It took twenty four minutes from in to out, between this and that.  Pretty quick for me, but given the time?  That left a quarter hour to get in.

Well, I got up, gathered clothes, started putting them on.  Then I grabbed my phone, to beg wiggle room.  Ask and... well...  He had to beg off the thing, until a bit later.  One minute before I was going to text him, just as I left the bathroom and saw the time, he had texted me.

Dressed, clean, ready.  I'll have a coffee, do this up, look around a web a bit.  And, find where the place is.  Should be able to be there easily on time.  Nice.  But... I don't dare touch the game.  It will... pull me in, suck me in, and I'll... never go.  Know your limits, addictions.  And, right now, that game is it.

Blood sugar is 193.  The first below two hundred in a few days, a week?  Bleh.  Oh well.  Chinese won't set well with that, though I suppose I could ask.  Sashimi won't do.  Local sashimi is just not up to grade.  My guess is, on the interior of Japan, it isn't either.  It's a... costal dish, really.  Unless there is exceptional, reliable, flexible, delivery.

Even so, amazed I am awake.  This is nearly miraculous.  No, it is miraculous.  It isn't just for my friend, it is trying to get out.  Later.