In which I get very little sleep

Here we are at the opening of summer, and Kevin and I have decided that we need to have more of a presence in the blogoverse. So I get the even days, and you'll hear from him on the odd days.

I find that it's hard to concentrate when I haven't been sleeping well. I left Kevin at home, and headed to CONduit in Salt Lake City. I was confident and pleased to be able to see some of my friends again. I wasn't worried about driving the 10 hours, I've done that before, and besides, I had my son and his girlfriend Jamie, my trusty assistant, along. If I got over-tired, Jamie would be able to drive.

So we arrived at the hotel without incident, and I go to my room. I did spend an hour Friday afternoon just lying down in the dark and cool hotel room, recuperating. Then I threw myself into the con.

I wasn't on any panels, even though my name was listed on the website. I had come to this event just to schmooze and visit. I had my hat on, and my crochet bag in case it got slow and boring.

That evening, when I finally went up to bed, though. I was aggravated. I have been using a CPAP system for almost 6 years, and there, on Friday night, it decided that it couldn't work, and just flashed error codes. I stayed up until 4:30 am investigating on the Internet how it might be fixed.

And I finally fell asleep without it. It is worrisome, because I know how much oxygen loss I suffer when I don't sleep with the CPAP. But I had to sleep. I actually got about 3.5 hours before I got up to go to breakfast with Jamie. Not all that unusual for con behavior.

Long story short, I didn't get it working yet. When I got home, Kevin and I opened it up and cleaned all the mechanisms, and it comes on now. But the regulator seems to be toast. It changes volume at random, giving me no air at all up to the maximum, and everything in between. I still can't sleep.

And so today, while I've been thinking about this blog, and the chapter I need to finish, along with Kevin's story that we want my half done on before June 15th, I haven't hardly written anything.

Except this blog. At least I kept up my side of the bargain.