Nyquil to the rescue, Culling, Wakanda, Breaking the speed limit
I have talked in here about the difficulty I have been having for quite awhile getting quality sleep. On Friday evening I was in my cabinet grabbing something when I saw a couple Nyquil sitting there. I figured it was worth a shot. When I’m sick Nyquil does a great job of knocking me out, it should do the same when healthy right? It worked. I had my my most solid sleep in weeks. I recall waking up briefly but instead of my mind wanting to go off to the races I instead just drifted right back off to slumber, it was awesome. It was like all of the things that have been poking me like a rose’s thorns all of a sudden fell off into insignificance.
I did read up and Googled about using Nyquil as a regular sleep aid. It’s not recommended because of the other ingredients involved, but, you can buy products that have just the drowsiness ingredient in it, doxlamine, BINGO. I ordered some Unisom but have used Nyquil the last couple nights until it arrives. Getting out of bed is a little more difficult, but once you are up the fog clears pretty quickly. Getting a solid 7-8 hours of sleep consistently would be a game changer for me.
On Saturday I tended to a few tasks around the yard. I fixed the one screen door that got inadvertently broken by the exterior painters a couple weeks ago. I then walked the landscaped areas and got rid of plants/trees. Some of the stuff was damaged from the cold, some of the stuff were in pots that I didn’t want anymore and some of the stuff just looked like shit so I ripped it out. My sentimental side has definitely been pushed to the back seat for at least the immediate time being. I just don’t care about a lot of things that I once did.
Saturday night I finally got to see the second Black Panther movie on Disney+. They went out of their way to pay homage to Chadwick Boseman. That being said, I wasn’t blown away by the movie. It was very long at almost 2:45 and I just didn’t find myself feeling as into it as I do with normal Marvel films. It was good and worth seeing but I would only go B+ on it overall.
Before bed I snapped this adorable picture of Elsa. Once again she was lying on my side of the bed and did not want to move. I actually angled my body at 45 degrees and slept with my Eagles blanket as my cover so I wouldn’t have to disturb her. She eventually moved in the middle of the night.
Today I set out on my new Sherman S to do some high speed riding. I normally do this with all new wheels to see how they feel at high speeds. My ride today had a number of annoyances. I actually was using three cameras and my phone for this video. Unfortunately my 360 camera, which was supposed to be the main camera did not record video which I only discovered afterward.
I also had an old hispanic couple pic up my GoPro 7 that I had roadside to get drive by footage. I saw them grab it and ran them down immediately. When I asked for it back he dropped it in the process of handing it to me, letting the camera hit the ground and break the back glass. I don’t think the guy even spoke english so I just took the camera and placed it elsewhere. Finally I had an unrestricted dog dart out on the street and chase me. The dog was small and I could easily outrun it but it still had all sorts of dangerous potential if it would have cut in front of me.
Despite all the negatives I did wind up clocking some fast runs, the fastest of which was 44.2 MPH, a new speed record for me on an electric unicycle. Going that fast on one wheel is slightly terrifying but the adrenaline rush isn’t bad either. I felt fortunate to escape the high speed riding without incident, at least without a physical injury. I had to do a hack edit on the footage since my main camera was out.
I was going to go visit Monique and her family late afternoon but that got rescheduled. Instead I installed upgraded pedals on the Sherman S. They are much better quality than the stock unit, I wish I had them on for the speed runs.
I wound up my Sunday getting a couple spare keys made for the realtor as my house should be officially listed this week. Home Depot actually has a self service kiosk which makes key duplication incredibly easy. In less than 5 minutes I had two spares made, which worked perfectly. It’s soon time to go pop a couple more Nyquil to make reality fade into background noise. It’s a welcome feeling.