{"id":1768,"date":"2010-02-03T23:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2010-02-04T00:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:47:16","slug":"a-short-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/a-short-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"A short shower"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is it really only enough for less than a minute?<\/em><\/p>\n

This morning, it was only -4C outside, that is to say, four centigrades below freezing. This turned out to be enough that the hotwater pipe to my shower had melted during the night. \u00c2\u00a0I now had hot water in the shower! \u00c2\u00a0For a few seconds. \u00c2\u00a0By the time I was actually inside, the water was barely even lukewarm and it went downhill from that. \u00c2\u00a0OK, perhaps this was to be expected when I had the faucets dripping all night. \u00c2\u00a0So I turned them off, what with it being so mild and all, and went to work.<\/p>\n

I was rather late at work for a number of reasons. \u00c2\u00a0First off, the low quality of sleep is catching up with me. \u00c2\u00a0I still woke up at 7, and spent half an hour with LifeFlow 2, the 2Hz brainwave entrainment track. \u00c2\u00a0As can be expected, I slept most of the time. \u00c2\u00a0Actually that may be just as well, since I am mostly using this for the health benefits rather than as meditation. \u00c2\u00a0It will be many years, if ever, before I can naturally meditate during deep dreamless sleep. \u00c2\u00a0But the track is definitely working even when I sleep. \u00c2\u00a0Usually when I sleep in the morning (and this holds for most people) I dream a lot. \u00c2\u00a0The proportion of REM sleep increases over the course of the night, and the long bouts of intense dreams in the morning are actually exhausting. \u00c2\u00a0(Although they probably fulfill important psychological functions, since people who are “starved” of REM sleep go a bit crazy.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, when I put my headphones on at 7, I don’t dream even if I fall asleep. \u00c2\u00a0I saw some kind of picture in my mind’s eye early on this time, but once the entrainment took fully hold, there was simply a kind of inner silence, which is ironic since it is created by sound. Still, I was horribly tired even after 30 minutes this was, so I gave up on the first bus and spent 40 more minutes with the delta wave entrainment. \u00c2\u00a0I was STILL tired, but once I got up I felt fine. \u00c2\u00a0I did another 20 minutes or so on the bus. \u00c2\u00a0I don’t think a relative newbie should do more delta than that in a day, seriously. \u00c2\u00a0After all, people my age probably spend only an hour or so in slow-wave sleep naturally.<\/p>\n

So anyway, I went to the second bus, but didn’t manage to stop it. \u00c2\u00a0Perhaps because I was standing together with a flock of garbage can. \u00c2\u00a0Today is garbage day here, and the next is two weeks from now. \u00c2\u00a0Not that I could have delivered any of my garbage today even if I had the foresight to sort it and put it in the bin: \u00c2\u00a0The road was still full of snow drifts, to the point that it was pure guesswork where there had actually been a road, except for a few spots. \u00c2\u00a0I had managed to spade a path through the snow this morning, but these garbage cans are more than twice that wide. \u00c2\u00a0So that was out. \u00c2\u00a0But the neighbors, whose roads are cleared more frequently, had their bins there, taking up nearly the whole bus stop. The bus did not even slow down even though I stood there with my bus card.<\/p>\n

So I took the next bus again, but it was not in the city until close to lunch. \u00c2\u00a0Conversely, I worked two hours later in the afternoon. \u00c2\u00a0Then I went to Nodeland, shoveled a path to that house as well (luckily much, much shorter) and cleared the steps, then a path to take the garbage cans to the half-open shed where they normally stand. \u00c2\u00a0Yes, garbage cans seem to weigh heavily on me today. \u00c2\u00a0I put back a rug I had briefly borrowed, and took with me home the bathroom scales and the content of the physical mailbox. \u00c2\u00a0The post office should start sending my mail to my new address by the end of the week. \u00c2\u00a0I was a bit delayed because their online service claimed my address did not match my postal number. \u00c2\u00a0(Kind of like a zip code, for those in the former colonies.) My neighbors have this number though, so I think it is right. \u00c2\u00a0Plus I already get mail to that address in my new mailbox.<\/p>\n

I came home around 22 (10PM) and took a warm shower. It lasted almost a minute. OK, perhaps not quite that long. \u00c2\u00a0But almost certainly half a minute at least, I think. \u00c2\u00a0With no dripping faucets. Is the hot water tank really that small? \u00c2\u00a0That just doesn’t seem right. Anyway, by now the temperature outside had dropped to -10C, and is still falling. So it’s either dripping or freezing for the water again. \u00c2\u00a0I could use the wisdom of Solomon now.<\/p>\n

But right now, I think wisdom is going to bed. \u00c2\u00a0We have a video meeting early tomorrow, and I can’t reasonably expect to suddenly have perfect sleep quality after just a couple nights. The train, after all, is still not racing past. \u00c2\u00a0Plus, I have a randomly (?) occurring pain in my right side from time to time today, which may wake me up if it continues into the night.<\/p>\n

But that which does not kill us, gives us something to write about! \u00c2\u00a0Are you soon fed up with these slices of life now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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