The insomniac thread

Guess I’m the only one left in the club. Glad the rest of you can get some well deserved sleep👌👌👍

What do you get when you cross an insomniac, agnostic and dyslexic?

Someone who stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

@lonecoyote, was that just one good night you had or are those new meds helping a bit?

I had absolutely zero sleep last night(Friday😉)

In fairness though,it was my leaving drinks at work,which started at 3,then rolled over onto a trip to a night club,and ended with hot chocolate and an egg sandwich in an all night coffee shop by Waterloo bridge.

I have slept through most of Saturday though....

After learning that my 47 year old son needs open heart surgery mid January to replace a valve with a mechanical device I’m sure no matter what I take tonight I’ll be awake. MORE STRESS!!!

  Tosh, thank you much!!!

Sorry to hear this about your son, hope all goes well.

Ok it 12:12 and I just made a giant coffee. Not the least bit tired as the lake comes over the bulkhead. Parts of Houston are already flooding with a mere 5-6 inches of rain. My hat is off to the idiots who have planned for controlled flooding for the last fifty years here. Someone should fly their dumb as...s to LA and show them what a proper flood aqueduct looks like I have dug bigger ditches to water my garden than they have in place here. Really every time it rains they act surprised. If you have never visited this fine city we don't have sidewalks and drainage systems instead we dig a ditch in front of the house then throw a tiny piece of pipe for every driveway. What you say that's right a multi million dollar home with a ditch in the front yard. Its like proper drainage is a after thought. You know what happens to ditches people throw crap away in them well they kinda got nowhere else to throw stuff away as the garbage companies wont pick up anything that does not fit in the can. Ok so my rant is over and it should have bored half of you to sleep.

Darn I was sure my rant would put someone to sleep then Walkman read it and posted.

Well now, Houston, we have a problem.

I was trained as a City Planner in my university days and worked for most of the '70s as one in California for local, county and state government.

Houston was a case study in what NOT to do and an example of the social and environmental costs of poor planning.
Back then, Houston resisted government interference in urban development, let the market decide how land is to be used. Don't tax people with the costs of infrastructure such as flood control districts and improvements. Keep them pointy-headed know-it-alls out of the way for developers to do whatever they want. I cannot imagine the situation improved over time. We can see what the outcome has been. Sorry to read what you are going through now. Not that it is whole lot better in other communities. People generally resist planning and do not like to see their taxes rise for some improvements. Had some of the same issues in some rural California communities and they, too, are suffering from fire and flooding.

Assessment of environmental hazards and planning for their mitigation should be part of the urban development process. The time to build flood control works is before the city spreads out. That includes stabilization and holding areas where water infiltrates. All hindsight now.

...still here myself...

Sorry to hear you boys are still up. I woke early(for a change) and thought that was it...luckily I got back to sleep after an hour or so

Thanks much ^^^^^^^^^^ Ant, greatly appreciated.