At the urinal, not looking

While I recently learned in my sleep test follow-up that 'spontaneous arousals' did indeed mean slightly waking up from sleep (and nothing more you naughty voyeurs), my dream state was interrupted much more suddenly seeing that my first AdAge Digital Next blog posting on beloved packets had garnered 0 comments. 

This is, of course, compared to Armano's 14 comments on relationship renaissance and 6 for Daitch's charming 4-year-old and her grandma. Not that I compare but what if I did. What if you do?!?!?

The #1 worry this time of year

Treff reminded me that the #1 worry this time of year (yes, it's a seasonal campaign) is of course:

The angel of death passing by your door, taking the first born.

I have a couple of remedies, however, for those wondering or anxious:

1. Don't be the first born

2. Don't be the second born (back up plan in case the 1st born is adopted)

3. Throw lambs blood on your door (works like a charm)

Happy Pesah.

They're not going the wrong way

So I'm deep into the new season of BSG, and we all knew it was going to happen but for the first time, I sense them coming, no matter what Starbuck says about them going the wrong way. I feel them. Close. 

In fact, sometimes I look at our dog and wonder if he's the final cylon, and they're already here among us. Then, he licks me on the lips and I know he's not. So I turn to Bryan...

Decisions

I am now to be a regular contributor to the  AdAge digital next blog. This now has me wondering (and worrying) if I should evolve this into a more creative marketing-focused blog, start yet another wanker marketing blog, or just eschew peer pressure and keep on as a regular human and sharing regular worries. 

Okay that was easy, thanks.

Sleep Study Results!

Well I got the Sleep Final Report, and though I don't understand a word of it, here are some highlights (aside from one typo I found):

• Time in Bed (TIB): 415 min.
  
• Total Sleep Time (TST): 386 min.
  
• Sleep Efficiency: 93.0%  (this is pretty impressive for a creative)
  
• # inter sleep/wake: 3.9%
  
• REM Onset: 120.5 min
  

And then:

• Wake During Sleep: 15.5
  
• Total Wake Time: 29.0 (must've been when they brought in the mask)
  
• % wake: 7.0
  
• Total number of leg movements: 0  (i suppose this means I don't have restless leg syndrome)
  
• EKG: no abnormalities

Now, I don't want to be too impersonal, but I did find mention of spontaneous arousals, which I don't know if it means wake-ups due to breathing or arousals, in the, you know... French sense. So until I know what that means, I won't be sharing those numbers.

The study is actually broken up into sections so there's too much detail to report, but I will share that my sleep efficiency broke the 90's in every section and I can only assume this is very very good. 

There's mention of the CPAP phase (when they woke me up to put on that nose/air mask to see how I would do) and that also seem to go well, earning me "Patient tolerated the procedure well."

More later.