Friday meme "fun"

I should really just blow Maryann off after she got all snooty on me, but I'm not like that. So here's the meme she tagged me with:

The rules:

1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog (or twitter page)
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. (or twitter account)
5. If you don’t have 7 blog friends, or if someone else already took dibs, then tag some unsuspecting strangers

7 facts about myself
1. I have sleep apnea. The sleep study I took to get diagnosed is the inspiration for the title of my blog.

2. I love inside jokes. Like so inside that only I get them. I am constantly surprised when no one gets them. Also, I now need to change the title of my blog.

3. My first inclination is always to hate something if someone tells me I'll love it.

4. There is no "I" in "Ed."

5. I am allergic to horses. I might never have found out if I didn't go horseback riding on the Laxness Horse Farm in Iceland. This is the farm that Halldor Laxness took his last name from. It was really nice until my face blew up.

6. I don't like melons.

7. I have size 12 wide shoes, but I usually just buy size 13 because its easier.

I am tagging:
Sean
Eric
AJ
Mr. Verb
Geekadelphia
The necessity for ruins
Used wigs

Happy New Year!

Photo courtesy of Rich Keer.

Wednesday Comic

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Aw Crap

I knew it was coming, but now it's here. Arnold Zwicky has a post on indigenous nudity. Now the only thing driving traffic to my site is going get buried.

Wednesday Comic

Wednesday Comic

Wednesday cartoon

It's a two-fer today! Alas, no bicycles.


Updated to clean up the pics a little.

Wednesday Comic

Wednesday Comic

Wednesday comic

Is this readable?

New Ed, old Ed, WTF Ed?

It's about two weeks into my year of living like myself and I have to say that things are going swimmingly. I feel more like myself than ever before.

However, there is one little issue that I think needs to be cleared up. Some people seem to have gotten the impression that I am a new Ed. That this little experiment is a turning over of a new leaf. Let me reassure you that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, If I am able to pull this thing off, the casual observer should notice no difference at all between the Ed pre-year of living like myself and the Ed during the year of living like myself.

The only difference between the two will be internal. During this year, I will be consciously living like myself. Every action I take will be recognizable as an Ed-like action. In fact, if I hadn't announced this experiment here, no one would know the difference. However, rather than just blindly going along being myself, I am going to be myself with purpose!

Let's hope I can do this--especially if I can get a book deal out of it.

My year of living like me--Day 2!

So i'm on day 2 of my experimental year of living like myself. I have to say I'm thinking this is going to be pretty easy. I spent some of my lunch hour surfing youtube for music videos. I really like music. At some point during the year I'll have to get into the whole The Clash vs The Who thing. Oh, and I'll also have to get into why I hate The Beatles. But I'll wait on that. I don't want to do everything in the first few days!

Tonight I'm going over to my friend P's house to watch Swedish television. Did I tell you that I speak Swedish? Yeah, I was a little surprised myself. I'm not sure why I bother. It really doesn't do me any good. Still, it's one of those things that "Ed" does.

Anyway, I've been friends with P for a couple of years now. We've gotten pretty close. So now is probably the point in our relationship that I would start ignoring his emails. I should think about that. Maybe next week, after I've seen the Swedish television.

My year as me

Today I am embarking on a bold experiment. For the next year, I am going to live my life exactly as if I were myself. I will not try to live according to the old testament, make no impact on the environment, or get by as a member of the working poor. No, instead, I will make sure that everything I do is consistent with something I, myself, would have done. Every major decision will be passed through the "What would Ed do?" filter.

Here are few things that I will strive to do:

1. Take loved ones for granted
2. Be easily distracted
3. Have multiple projects going on at once and never complete any of them
4. Lose touch with old friends
5. Procrastinate
6. Sleep whenever the opportunity presents itself
7. Be wildly unsuccessful

Now, this will not be an easy year. It will take incredible concentration and determination. However, I am confident that this project will not only make me a better Ed, even if I fail, but also spin out into a lucrative book deal.

I will posting here about my progress. Please feel free to follow my progress, and report on your own efforts to be a better Ed.

Holy cow, has it been a month?

Ooh, look at me! I'm a photoblogger!

Here's a picture of the start of my last day in Hawthorne. I do miss it.


And here's a picture of a guy in a Al suit.

Happy Birthday Nora

To the bat phone!

That grainy picture is a bat on an alcove wall of the Ciarco Learning Center in Hackensack, NJ. I took it last night at around 8:00 with my cell phone. Just the night before I had nightmare about a bat attacking me.

Well it's about fucking time!

I've been tagged with a meme from bradshaw of the future.
These are the rules:

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.



2. Players start with eight random (I'm assuming random here means "unexpected") facts/habits about themselves.



3. People who are tagged need to write in their own blog about their eight things and include these rules in the post.



4. At the end of your post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.


These are the facts:

1. I made McDonald's Cheesburger Honor Roll in 1975


2. I sometimes have night terrors


3. I am slow to anger, but quick to forgive


4. For the longest time I had no idea that victuals and vittles were the same word


5. I love beans, bacon, and molasses but only recently was even able to taste baked beans


6. I am not a walking thesaurus and I don't really care about grammar


7. I think Pamela Anderson is hot


8. I once killed a rat with a broom handle

Here are the people I tag:
There's a Pattern Here to See
smARTs & Culture
Radio Zero
Bunk Telescope
Incendiary Librarian
Robotpolisher
Phlogiston
flojin.com

My apology to New Jersey

Yesterday's post on issues in New Jersey schools created quite a flap here at Watch Me Sleep. I would like to apologize to my New Jersey readers. I'm sorry that the post offended them. I really like the Garden State. Hell, some of my best friends are from New Jersey.

I'm glad to be leaving NJ

Pipe Cleaners, Googly Eyes Cut From Elementary School Arts Budget

PARAMUS, NJ—With students set to arrive in about three weeks, teachers at Washington Street Elementary School were scrambling Monday to deal with a new round of budget cuts that slashed funding for the pipe cleaners and googly eyes they say are the cornerstone of a humanities-based education.