BS: Do any of you sleep?

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 07:10 PM

Oh yeah! See, what I tell you? I'm going stunod!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From:
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 05:01 PM

Mbo, I hate to tell you this, but, Sleeping from 12 to 12, is TWELVE hours. Half the day.

Nice work when you can get it. 8-)

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 10:22 AM

It is obvious that something is found here that we are not generating amongst our fleshly compatriots, partners and companions. I don't think this is a reflection on our relationships with them, just that the added weight of inertia and mass makes the whole thing so trying compared to the purely cerebral/cardiac experience of soaking up threads through a CRT. Have ti ask, though, if we are at risk of losing the ability to communicate through a meat-space interface.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Callie
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:05 AM

EEEEK! Just realised it's ONE A.M. I'm supposed to be working on a submission due in TODAY and I HAVEN'T STARTED IT coz I'm ADDICTED TO MUDCAT. aaaaaarrrrghh!

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 08:45 AM

NO REST YET FOR THE WEARY!!!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: harpgirl
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 08:38 AM

...Doc, I had the strangest dream last night. I dreamed I was the only man in a nudist colony...

my, my, Did you sleep well?

I tried but it was hard!


I was in the woods with Morpheus all night myself...oh, or maybe his name was Orpheus...he said he was from Pennsylvania!!

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Gypsy
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 11:48 PM

Don't you know that you are really part of my dream? I AM asleep!

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Callie
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 07:20 PM

Yes, thanks goodness for going to work. I would hate to improve my guitar playing any more. It's such a drag playing music. I really can't wait to be back at my desk! --Callie

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 07:03 PM

Callie, some people go to the 'Cat for a break from work. I am considering that the break should go the other direction, and will go to work tomorow to get a break from Mudcat. I don't know if they will let me into my office, I have been working so much from home, but I'm the boss! Anyway, it's bound to be better than learning 12 more songs that I have to go find a venue to play them at! I can't take it anynmore! I can't even write a decent sentence!

Just kidding.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Callie
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 06:33 PM

I've never seen 'NADS' in the shops. I think some company in Utah is having you on, Spaw.

Ever since I got a computer at home and can 'Cat at home as WELL as at work, I am getting almost no sleep. I am in danger of losing my mind, friends, and employment (in that order). Will someone help by closing Mudcat immediately?

--Callie

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 04:32 PM

I rarely sleep more than 4/5 hours a night going to bed between 1-2am and rising to attend the needs of my semi incontinent pet dog at around 6am. I am a left handed gemini -more than that none of you need to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: bbc
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 03:16 PM

Oh, boy, now we're playing the "my computer lab is bigger than yours" game. I was told it wasn't how many you had, but what you could do w/ them! ;)

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: GUEST,_gargoyle
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 12:02 AM

Dear Praise...."Isn't it always whatever time Max thinks it is?"

The benefit of "thinks", in behalf of the creature, is doubtful

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 11:57 PM

Do you all know you can open many windows at once on your one computer and zip between threads at the speed of... something you shouldn't travel so fast like?

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: GUEST,_gargoyle
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 11:49 PM

Sleep is a luxury

I am a multiple cusp

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 11:08 PM

Rog, you think that's neat...I'm in charge of 20 computers, and on Fridays, no one's there except me....

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: rangeroger
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 11:01 PM

bbc,
That's mind-numbing.You could work 12 threads simultaneously!
rr

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: bbc
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 08:51 PM

Yes, 'spaw, you do get things past me, 'cause I'm not reading all the threads. I know I missed at least one lately--you referred to it--but I never saw it. If you feel enough guilt that you *want* to be beaten up for it, direct me to it & I'll do my best to castigate you. Bill, I usually spend lunchtime on email & Mudcat--very antisocial. I should be in the faculty room, mingling. At least I limit myself to my own time. It *is* a temptation to check threads when I should be working, 'cause I have 12 computers in my library media center.

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 08:46 PM

LOVE IT!!!!

I recently asked Helen here if "Nads" was in fact used in Oz as all things Australian have taken on a bit of "cool status" in the States. Amish is also getting a lot of sales too.....So if you have any Amish down there, export there products here. Gotta' be a winner.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: rangeroger
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 08:45 PM

I no longer watch tv,having cancrelled my cable due to a 100% rate increase.
The problem I'm having is all the rest of my cyber-surfing has ceased. My favorite bookmarked websites all lie unused gathering dust,and I find myself introducing my very good friends to the Mudcat so that they too can become addicted.
Oh my God. Am I a Mudcat pusherman?
rr

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: GUEST,John Gray / Australia
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 08:38 PM

As Franklin said " fatigue is the best pillow".

And to Catspaw49 regarding NADS. A recently retired racing greyhound in Sydney was named NADS. When coming down the straight the crowd would be on their feet yelling out "GO-NADS". He attained cult figure status in racing circles.

JG / FME.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: vtwin90
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 08:06 PM

I'll sleep when I'm dead--Warren Zevon

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 05:07 PM

Where I am it's just past 10pm. I've got a free connection in the evenings after 6pm, and at weekends. Come on most days for five minutes to check my mail,and then likely get pulled in and trapped. It beats watching TV anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Troll
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 03:34 PM

The correct quote is," Sleep is a poor substitute for coffee." Alan Dean Foster

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 03:21 PM

Wow, I sleep 10 hours last night! From 12am to 12pm. So I overslept--it's Saturday and the world looks a lot brighter, even though it's raining out. "In an interstellar burst, I'm back to save the universe!"

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 01:04 PM

What do you mean sleep? I'm a musician, I don't sleep. And I'm only irritating when I'm awake.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 01:04 PM

What do you mean sleep? I'm a musician, I don't sleep. And I'm only irritating when I'm awake.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 11:13 AM

Isn't GMT General Mudcat Time which has a different speed from other space-time continua? (Continuums? You know what I mean!) Isn't it always whatever time Max thinks it is?

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: BlueJay
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 11:06 AM

So a few of you DO sleep. Maybe I could be diagnosed with the previously Mudcat Sleep Disorder. I work graveyard shift, with varying days off, so getting into ANY kind of sleep pattern is tough. Keeping an eye on these threads tends to push my bedtime later and later. Perhaps this is related to the Mudcat Addiction I read about. Something about The Neil Young Center. At first I didn't take that seriously, but now I wonder. O well, at least it's an informative pastime, much better than watching old reruns. Thank you all for your insights. I think I'll go to bed, (after I check out a few more threads).

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Troll
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 10:26 AM

Sleep is for those who do not mainline coffee!

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From:
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 09:38 AM

I sleep, but who needs more than 4 or 5 hours? Take a nap during lunch. You don't REALLY need 60 minutes to eat. Take half of it for a nap. You'll be refreshed.

The way I work it is, Check around 7AM just after I wake, before I shower. Check during the first half of lunch. Check once more while making supper, and a few times during the evening, on those evenings I am at home. Otherwise, check when I FINALLY get home, and then several times before I go to bed around 2AM, to read for a while.

All in all a full day!

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: GUEST,Skipjack AT HOME!!!!!!!
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 05:13 AM

Happy Saturday, shipmates!

All my trouble is waking up! Dang, I love sleep, list it on my CV as an interest, and get really crabby when it is poor quality, especially when I have obeyed "the Rules" for rocking gently in the arms of Morpheus.

No sailing today, shame, it's a beautiful morning and midday tide, but I'm 223 miles from the good ship Skipjack.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 02:04 AM

I recently got a new job. The office clown is hairy. Not so much a crab ladder, as a scramble net. Blows my three little tufts into a cocked hat. When he showed me, I hyperventilated in the filing range and had to be rubbed down with a damp edition of "Taxation - the magazine of the Inland Revenue".......

And you thought the IRS was full of faceless beaurocrats.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 01:50 AM

Only if you've shaved off your chest hair Liz. Have you tried the Aussie stuff called, believe it or not, NADS? They have the most disgusting TV ad I've seen. And I ain't about to put Nads on MY nads, but it is a possibility for your chest hair situation.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 01:42 AM

Sleep? Remind me.........

Actually, thre are people who post at 6.am GMT, I would have done, but I was writing a report for my church.... Quinciquontly I'm a tad tap-happy - will write any old crud and it will all make sense. I'll come back tonight (or tomorrow, whenever real life takes a raincheck) and it will be total gibberish.

I'm a Virgo too, I have no plans on remaining so, but there are days when it feels like it could be a while...... Anyone up for some midnight/early morning canoodling??

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 01:20 AM

There are a few times that are slower generally than others, but you also have some strange gaps where no one seems to be on for a period of time. I also run across threads every now and then that are in essence late night chats. I read one the other morning with 2 folks who'd had quite a conversation the night before. A lot of people object to this, but as I read that thread, it was my impression that 2 friends had been made in the sharing of information on the topic.

Max will have a new chat room up soon and a lot of us use ICQ sometimes. But the thread the other night reminded me of my first 'Catter friends and what a great place the joint really is.

Yep....still up. Grabbin' a handful of drugs and trying again later.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: canoer
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 01:00 AM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I talk in my sleep.

--Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Sabra
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 12:33 AM

Actually BlueJay, I've been here a couple o' times long about 2-4 am Central Time (GMT -6) when no one seems to be posting at all...I do sleep-usually not much tho-and I work fulltime and home-school two boys, so i'm not nearly as prolific as I'd like to be.

I found that when I tried to participate in the particularly fascinating Honesty thread that Amos started the other day, my brain overloaded and went totally wonky, so I've decided a bit more sleep is in order...I'll be aiming for quality not quantity.

I have seen folks on here who seem to manage both, but I'm not one of them Im afraid...one of those "spirit's willing" situations I guess.

Smiles,
Sabra

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: simon-pierre
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 12:19 AM

Action, not words!

I'm going to sleep! Good night everyone.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Hagbardr
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 12:14 AM

I'm usually on a 10am to 2pm schedule and log on mostly in the evenings. I work a 40 hour week, have several hobbies including medievalism, folk music, and hanging out with gay men and bitching about how I can never find a girlfriend. There's no way I can keep up with all the threads, so I keep up the 5 to 10 at a time.

Hagbard

P.S. I'm a Virgo, and I plan on staying a while.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: BK
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 11:23 PM

Having a 10-12 hr/day job AND a 40 mile drive each way, there are times when I sleep - or lurk/occ post the Mudcat - but not both...

Cheers, BK (who is trying to mannage his addiction by interjecting real life [whatever that is] & remembering that if I get some sleep, & am less on the computor, I 1. won't be getting pissed off at & cussing at Win-98 & get my b.p. up as much, 2. might find time to go have a look at the most interesting parlor guitar w/the pretty inlay that looks like an early 1900's Martin or Washburn.. 3. could get ready for the "hoot" we'll be doing at church.. & 4. etc, etc, like re-assemble my old Trooper II & get it inspected, get the ancient Suzuki 2-stroke road bikes ready for summer, etc..)

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 10:56 PM

I'm not a prolific poster; actually, BlueJay, I'm pretty much a ubiquitous lurker nowadays, but I check in to the site fairly often. Like bbc, I'm an academic, but fortunately for me I can post from the office as well as from home. As a professor of linguistics and folklore, I am expected to be doing research in areas which are more or less traditional, and so I don't have to worry that someone might find out that I commit Mudcattery during working hours.

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 10:35 PM

Its helpful to know schedules, like bbc's.........That way I can make wisecracks behind her back that she may not ever find and save her beating me up on a regular basis like she did last summer. But summer is indeed approaching and I'm working out daily to be able to inprove my footwork and slip the punches better.

Spaw---(and if you're new, so you know, the above is a joke and our bbc is a very special 'Catter...Her work and commitment to "Mudcat Resources" cannot be praised enough.)

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Mbo
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 09:21 PM

Yep! My college work study job is in a rather lazy computer lab, as a lab assistant...which means: more happy Mudcat! More happy happy Mudcat!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: bbc
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 09:16 PM

Hi, BlueJay,

As usual, it's a mixed answer. When I was new, I thought for months that Joe Offer was a computer program. It seemed that, as soon as a question was asked, he was on top of it. Last fall, I met, chatted w/ him, even hugged him. He appears to be flesh & blood. He even sings!

The answer about time zones is valid, but doesn't explain the prolific individual posters. Some, like MM, work in front of a computer & follow along most of the day. I am a teacher (well, school librarian, actually). Sometimes, I post before leaving at 6 am & I'm home between 3:30 & 4 pm. In the summer months, when school is out, I'll probably be around much more. Some of the others are just out-and-out addicts! :)

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Oversoul
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 08:40 PM

I had a joke about all of the above being "bed-wetters" but I am on probation so I will pass on it,ok? Maybe they just go to bed to pee, who cares?

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 08:24 PM

Blue Jay, the real question is, do you sleep? I have looked at the times that you have posted--and your not any better than any of the rest of us--gotta go--I need a cup of coffee--

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 08:24 PM

Oh, thanks, Spaw!!

Hey, guys, Rog says he has a cure for the Mudcat Sleep Disorder: after midnight Mudcat time, only discussions on new age music wil be available! LOL, yeah, right!!

If I can't sleep, BlueJay, which is 2-3 times per week, I am drawn like a cat to catnip to the Mudcat for a quick "fix".

katlaughing

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 08:12 PM

Sleep? I slept last week... I'm a Gemini one sleeps the other posts and vicky verka.. Yours,Aye.Aye.Dave and Dave ( the ancient twins )

Subject: RE: BS: Do any of you sleep?
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 08:02 PM

To quote Kurgan, from the movie "Highlander"...

"Gods Don't Sleep!"

LOL!!

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