Sleepless in Bed.....

I should have sat and done my blog the night before last. I was up all night.. why? well the pain kept me awake and then the awake kept me in pain! a vicious cycle and after the first round of it I knew I would not sleep. Painkillers were at hand and so were sleeping pills. But I prefer to hit the pills only after a couple nights of insomnia. There was nothing on TV either to watch and so I got my laptop on and Internet going. Played a couple of games of Mahjong to see if that would relax me. But I think the insomnia was there to stay.

So got my writing out and sat down to revise and complete my chapter 7 (experiment was on InterLoc). After finishing the summery I moved to the chapter 6 (experiment on Digalo plus MI) where part of the chapter has to be written still. By 5 am I had managed to revise the writing and reach the point where I had to start new inclusions. By now I was seeing double and so had to shut it all down. Had a cup of tea and just rested my eyes for a couple of hours.

During the day I thought I would be able to catch up on some sleep at least as by now I had been up for over 24 hours and had only about 2 hours of shut eye. But despite reading a novel...The Janus Man by Colin Forbes (have read it about 20 times by now) thinking surely I would sleep....no such luck. At least this evening the TV would be good. There was a repeat of the first program of the series called Ganges on BBC 2. It is a fascinating documentary of the river from its beginning to end with a good overview of the geological, socio cultural history with all the related flora and fauna. There is some excellent photography of the flow of the river and the speed of the rapids high up in the mountains. It brought back some memories as I have been to Rishikesh and walked along the Laxshman Jhula. The monkeys there are truly as bold as shown in the documentary.

Next good program was a documentary called Black Adder Rides Again. All the characters were there to talk about their recollections of all the series. I remember Stephen Fry on twitter saying the program makers had gone out to where he was filming the 'Last Chance to See' (a wildlife series). I had seen the series backwards I guess as I first saw Black Adder in the last series set in the first world war trenches. Later I saw the series 2 and 3 in bits and finally the first series. I never really liked the fist one and it was good to hear that the people in the documentary were of the same opinion - good to know am not a bad connoisseur of good comedy. They seemed to agree that the best series was the one in world war trenches, there was humour and also lots of sadness. As Ben Elton said the best subject for satire... people going to fight just because.... Well suffice to say I enjoyed the documentary.

Last program to be seen before I finally fell asleep was Law & Order Criminal Intent. Strange it was about some journalist being poisoned by polonium, close to reality? Did turn over to see Micheal McIntyre live from Apollo.... finally began to feel drowsy... did a quick switching off and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz