Insomnia is fun. Puzzles, not so much.

It's 4:45 AM on this post-holiday Monday and I've given up trying to sleep after a little over four hours of almost falling asleep.

OK, technically it's not insomnia, but lack of discipline. When I have time off for vacations and holidays, I immediately revert to childhood and fighting the need to go to bed at a decent hour. If left to my own devices, I'd stay up until about 3 am every day, and sleep past noon. Why can't I find a decent job that has swing-shift hours?

While tossing and turning, I did remember a couple more books I needed to add to my Library Thing list. It's up to 317! It's funny how every time I think I've remembered every last book I've ever read, something will trigger a memory, then that reminds me of another, and so on. It's a good mental exercise. Funny thing about mental exercise - for being a nerdy computer science type, I've never enjoyed puzzles - I don't mean jigsaw puzzles, but mind-benders and riddles and such. They always frustrate me because I just don't like to waste the time thinking of solutions to arbitrary problems when I could be pondering my own problems or trying to solve the issues plaguing humankind. I'll have to let you know when all this effort at saving my precious brain power for the greater good has paid off! :-)

I watched a two hour biography of Albert Einstein yesterday. Now there was a guy who knew how to spend time thinking. Didn't leave much time for hair-combing and other such trivialities, but something's got to give!