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Insomnia's a real pain. I was up waaay late last night, and by rights I should be dead tired. Every month after my Perlmongers meeting I am always wired, though, whether or not I go out for a beer, or go straight home.

Tomorrow's likely to be busy, with a few meetings with the Research Support group, plus some beginning-of-term lab fixin' to do, as well as getting started on new things my boss wants me to work on. So, I should head to bed just as soon as my valerian pills kick in (they're herbal, partly placebo, but they also do relax part of my brain so that if I want to sleep, I have a better chance of it).

I just saw Memento for the first time. Great film. Occasionally I feel like that character, though my short-term memory's not really the problem, it's my middle- to long-term ("oh, I said I'd do that last week? Three weeks in a row? Oops.") memory. Like the character, I've got a system; I take tons of (searchable) notes at work. But I also could stand to be a lot more organized and selective about my attention. ...For example, my web-browser here at home has eighteen tabs open. Watching the movie, I had a little deja-vu as he flipped through his Polaroids trying to figure out what he had just been doing. I do that, but with windows on the screen. And virtual terminals. And detatchable sessions. And tabs. And KVM switches. Yes, I could probably stand to keep a bit more focused.

To my credit, 14 of the 18 tabs were for a talk I just gave at my Perlmongers group, on maypole, a web-development and database framework that I don't know nearly enough about before Tuesday. In the process I got a simple web-app for work 85% or 90% finished. And now I know what questions to ask on the maypole mailing-list.

(By the way, if you're the same way about organizing dozens of computer windows, you, too, might have NADD. Read and rejoice, for forewarned is forearmed! *grin*)

And now, to sleep.