Falling Asleep

Not to mock, George, though I figure you know that.

Now, stop that, David! That isn't even phonetic. That's text talk and vanity plate abbreviation. 1ce, indeed!

No, It IS fonetic, Roger.

First u say: 1
and after that u say: ce.
It sounds like S.

It fits well together.
Don 't u think ?





David

I was about to post on that.

The first person that became a gallery partner with me, may she rest in peace, was wildly different than me and that might have been why we were interested to talk in the first place.

Or she might have been a total user, it's possible. In any case, we were very different and we both liked an ad she found re a place I went with her to see, an old eagles lodge, thus our gallery and theater.

Skipping along, she had narcolepsy, a big new word to me.

We'd have lunch and afterwords, if she was driving she would start to doze off.

I tried to be the one to drive.
She knew she had narcolepsy, since she told me. Like many others among us, I never monitored her pill taking, not my business.

Her main interest, or among them, was Jung.
I was already in flight from all that.

But now, years later, I can understand her fear.

Goodness I love reading your posts. They make me laugh.

One of my roommates when I was in college was narcoleptic. I met her because I sat next to her and she kept falling asleep and I would wake her up. We made friends of each other over her bouts of sleep and decided to be roommates.

I fell asleep once at work when I was bartending. It was a slow afternoon and I just completely and totally sacked out. Thank goodness it was one of our regulars who found me and that he didn't panic and think I was dead. (Ya gotta love scientist.)

I worked with a narcoleptic. I didn't know about his condition at first. We started to carpool as he lived 1 mile from me. I drove with him once and when he dozed off at the wheel while driving, I told him that from that point on I would do the driving. His medical treatment was ineffective. I know it was not intentional but once is all it takes.

For me it took twice, but that was before I knew.


This actually gets funny, as the guy downstairs designed the Vector...
and bought my very lame Chevy van.

Sorry, but what is a Vector?

The guy downstairs that for me luckily took my gawdawful chevy off my hands was Gerry Weigart, who designed the Vector. Don't trust me on the spelling.
I only saw the vehicle once, much noise...

But, as I understood it then, he roamed the l.a. freeways in the middle of the night. I now don't know what I understood that from.

Of course, he fell behind on payments. I don't remember how I got out of all that.

Look it up.
OK, here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Wiegert
Meantime, I wish him well.

When I saw the Vector going down west washington, rumbling, it was 1975.

Luckily, people vary. The guy who bought my van who also designed vehicles didn't fall asleep zooming the freeway.

I fell asleep at the ballet once.

I was never in danger of being invited again.

Some years ago, I was a holder of public office.
I don 't wanna go as far as to say narcolepsy,
but I found that it became necessary for me to
lock the door to my office and take a nap for a couple of hours.
If my secretary put thru a fone call, I coud deal with that.

Sometimes, while more actively on-the-job,
engaged with the public, it became quite a strain to remain awake.
Sometimes, it became necessary for me hold things in abayance,
take refuge in my office, lock the door, and . . . .





David

Woud u have laffed out loud
if some of the dancers had fallen asleep on-the-job ?





David

No it doesn't, and yes I do.

I don't have any trouble making myself stay awake. I have, though, become aware of a considerable difference between being tired and being sleepy.
Periodically I will have periods of sleepiness that I find to be extremely uncomfortable.
I don't give in easily enough to nod off, but the effort is miserable.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the amount of sleep I get.

On the other hand, I can be dog ass tired to the bone at times, and not have that sleepiness. I find that so much easier to deal with, not really all that uncomfortable.

I think it's always been that way, I've only payed any attention to it in the last few years. The difference never really occured to me before that.

Think of an Ace, like the Ace of Hearts, or like Eddie Rickenbacker or Erich Hartmann,
but without the A; just the ce.

Then u say: 1 before u say the ce; ez, right ?

Is that easier than saying it: 2ice ?





David

Agreed; being tired can be very different than being sleepy.





David