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Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 07:52 pm The return of wacky dreams
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A few nights ago I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep. I would lie there, thinking, "I need to sleep." I tried doing boring things, like counting sheep, counting breaths, breathing deeply... and nothing worked. I tried the warm milk trick. But I just stayed awake. I kept on doing boring things, trying to make myself tired, but no luck.

Eventually it got to the point where it was almost time to get up and I still wasn't asleep. Cursing mightily, I got out of bed and wandered throughout the house. There was a shop in the building whose opening hours changed the closer I got to it. I headed back to my room and passed my brother's; I saw my brother get out of bed, run towards the fence, and change into a dog so he could wriggle under the fence.

And I still couldn't get to sleep. All too soon, it was my usual wake-up time and I'd gotten no sleep at all.

...oh, hang on, that stuff with the shop and my brother had to have been a dream. But how much sleep had I really gotten?
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Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 07:54 pm Update on the nephew
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I haven't written much on nephew Finn, which is probably for the best.

Time has passed and he's grown. He's now nine months old and good at crawling. There was a worrying month or so where he 'commando-crawled': he would stay on his stomach and use his arms to pull himself along. But now he's worked out he can zoom around on his hands and knees.

Combined with the newfound ability at crawling is his desire to get up to his feet. He crawls over to something within reach, such as the sofa, coffee table, or person's leg. He then pulls himself up to his feet and stands there, holding himself steady.

This is something that all babies do as they grow up. So why should it be exciting for people to read about Someone Else's Baby doing something he would normally do anyway? Well, I don't know about you, readers, but when I see Finn doing all these things, it is a) cute, and b) amazing to see his development. I'm watching a tiny person grow up, and I'm seeing him working things out.

He also had another taste of ice cream the other day. He certainly doesn't say no to ice cream. :)

Finally, it seems he's starting to work out the idea of words and that they mean things... except he hasn't quite got the meanings right. He calls both his father and mother "Daddadda" for example.

He's occasionally said "Mumma" but not as often as "Daddadda"... perhaps now we know why. :)
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Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 07:56 pm ...wha?
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Lately I've been poking around a few World of Warcraft-related blogs, and been wondering if I should do one of my own... probably not. There are certainly more than enough WoW-related blogs around the place, so why should I inflict yet another one on the world? Would I really have anything interesting to say?

In my perusal of WoW-related blogs, was a blog piece someone wrote about why on earth should it be that sneaky thieves have a greater chance to critically hit opponents, which naturally led to me composing a LJ entry about the nature of hit points. However, lots of people have written about hit points and what they really mean in-game, so why should I, and anyway, I thought of something weird and went off on a tangent again...

...I recently managed to really wallop my toes into a hibachi, made of quite solid wood. Ow. I used my one or two skill points in First Aid and quickly determined I hadn't broken anything but that my toes were really stinging. This was roughly equivalent to lightly hitting my toes with an improvised blunt weapon, so I took maybe 1 or 2 hit points of damage. A couple of days later my toe was *still* sore. I hadn't even healed one or two measly hit points.
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