Micronaps

I remember when I used to carry a polyphasic sleep schedule out of necessity. It's definitely different when the drugs you are taking leave you dozing off while sitting up. I don't like falling asleep when I have a computer in my lap. It's even more startling when I find myself waking up from a seamless dream where I've been typing away only to wake up to a screen full of "d"s. Anyone who would dare drive while taking Roxicet is a damn fool and should be jailed.

This almost feels like Benadryl. I remember when that stuff was the only antihistamine that would work for me and having to trade the use of my mind for not feeling like I was going to die. Thank God for Zyrtec and then generic as Cetirizine and then Sam's Club for selling 500 pills of the stuff for under $30. Since then, I've never fallen asleep with a soldering iron in my hand.

My 10AM Roxicet dose hit pretty quickly despite my having eaten over a cup of the leftover alfredo bowties.

I've started taking my Glutamine capsules again. While it isn't doctor-ordered, I figure that the help I get from such a supplement when I work out is about the same as the help I need for regrowing pretty much any body tissue, expecially when I am almost entirely unable to eat meat right now. I take five grams of that twice a day, but only the capsules. They have a better chance of reaching my intestines before being broken open.

In other news, I've been experimenting with machine virtualization. I knew that having a dual-core machine would allow me to run programs like DOS Box, but what I didn't expect was Virtual PC 2007. All I had to do was turn on Virtualization in the Tecra M7's BIOS, download and install the free app and I was able to get DOS 7.10 (I think that's what WinME runs on top of) to install with Rise of the Triad and Blood running okay with the music turned off.

I'm stoked that I'll be able to run old programs like Autodesk Animator if I feel like it. This project has made the Dell laptop I wished to retain for just such things obsolete. Now I can sell that off without even missing it. What would be really amazing is to have Windows 3.11 or Linux running under Virtual PC.

I'm upgrading this machine to the full 4GB RAM it will take. I don't care if most of that fourth gigabyte will be lost to the 32-bit quirk, at today's prices it just doesn't matter. Looks like I'll be able to see almost 3.5GB anyway and that's fine.

I've learned a lot so far and I've had about half a dozen micronaps while writing this post.