Lots of Monkeys

There are times when I cannot sleep.

When I awake, it is not from a physical need or a nightmare that has suddenly ended. I simply open my eyes and I am fully awake.  It is like this most mornings.

It’s dark outside, but for all I know, it might as well be six in the morning.  The nights in winter a long and the days short, although lately the days are getting longer ever so.

For now though, I reach over to my phone, and look at the screen.  It reads ten fifteen, but when I finally unlock it, I find that roughly two hours have passed. It is the stroke of midnight, and I have been asleep for perhaps an hour.  It’s happening again.

Falling asleep is no mystery to me.  Whenever I am up past a certain time, my body demands it.  I just shut down.

Staying asleep on the other hand, that’s a more difficult task than I can handle on some nights.

There is a certain enmity I have with my body when I’m sick.

I just want to get better, and do the things that I want to do.  But the body takes priority.  It’s fatigued, it’s weary, it’s doing unpleasant things with membranes and cough reflexes.  It’s complaining and achy and demanding and I’m angry with it.

And while my body is rebelling against me, I know somewhere in the part that’s not busy feeling angry, that it’s doing all of these things because they are what’s best for me.  And I’m glad for it.

Okay, I’m a fan of preorder bonuses as much as the next guy, but Cryptic studios has put together fifteen different preorder bonus packages for Star Trek Online.  This is only counting retailers in the United States.  Counting the international editions of the preorder bonuses, there are forty.  Forty different preorder bonuses.

I’m not saying that they shouldn’t offer preorder bonuses.  That’s fine for the people who want to put down their money.

The weird thing is that there is a huge discrepancy with some of the content.  Some retailers get in game pets, like a Targ or a Tribble.  Other retailers get things like Borg Bridge Officers or Chromodynamic armor that offer in game bonuses to your statistics.  It’s like you can put money down to get an inherent advantage in the early game.  In my experience though, these early advantages all even out and end up being not so great once you get to the real equipment in later levels, so it’s not a big draw for me.

Although, the exclusive “KHAAAAAAAN!” emote is somewhat tempting.

I finally decided to move from speakeasy after I looked at the standard pricing for RCN.

It turns out that it’s seven times the bandwidth for fifty percent of my current rate.  So it’s kind of a no brainer.

Although I do feel bad moving from Speakeasy, I have to say that it’s not them, it’s me.  More specifically it’s my building’s outdated phone wiring that prevents me from getting anything faster than 1.2 Mb download speeds.  Then there are the intermittent connectivity issues.

I’m hoping that the cable wiring will be in better shape, considering that they’ve put that wiring in later than 1958.