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"[...] for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane." -- mouseover (HTML title) text of Randall Munroe's xkcd comic for 2009-03-16

For the record, managing to fall asleep but then having dream after dream about not being able to fall asleep, while better than actually not sleeping, is still annoying as %#@^.

Dunno why the QotD script glitched -- failed to post the link text to LJ and made that string visible on sites where it should've been hidden between <!-- and --> -- but I'm fixing it now.

It smells, sounds, and feels as though a thunderstorm approacheth, so I went to a window to see whether the sky was doing anything especially photogenic. When I looked east, toward the downtown skyline, a helicopter was just lifting off from the helipad atop the UM Medical Center. And just at that same moment, a semi making its way up Lombard St. but still completely hitten by the trees, revved its engine to start up the gentle hill from a stoplight, the sound of the truck being perfectly synchronized with the sight of the ascending whirlybird.

I am amused. Despite the fact that the semi wasn't supposed to be on Lombard in the first place (there are signs saying, "no trucks over 3/4 ton"), I am amused.

A few seconds later, and the truck had emerged from the obscuring trees and the helicopter had circled out of sight, hidden by buldings.