I'm a stupid fool

Well, let's just say I'm a stupid fool. Things started innocently enough. I got back into town earlier this week (around 5am Tuesday to be precise), and have been spending most of this week getting things in order.

I decided to play a session of duplicate (bridge) with Will Thursday afternoon. It had been over 2 months since I'd played last, so I was eager to see how my skills have fared. We did reasonably well considering (3rd in our direction, but only just over a board off top), picked up 0.45 masterpoints, and had fun. Will mentions that he was thinking about going up to play at a sectional in Skokie on Saturday and asked whether I'd want to go. I think about it and say sure.

There's a whole story behind the next 38 hours, but suffice it to say that I get in touch with Jon and we plan to play in the KO team event. Will and I set off around 6:15am on Saturday for Skokie, after I stayed up all night beforehand. It was a lot of fun (we ended up taking 3rd, for 1.35 silvers) and we make it back home around 2 in the morning or so. Having gone so long without sleep, I end up conking out until about 5pm Sunday.

Ok, so far this isn't horrible, except I know that I have a 9am appointment with a client (that will probably last most or all of the day) on Tuesday. So I try to adjust my schedule accordingly, but what happens? I end up not getting to sleep until Monday morning and wake up again guess when? That's right, a little after 5pm. Argh. Now I could blame this on my phone (which decided to crash then believe it or not!), but really I'm just a stupid fool.

The saddest part of this whole thing is that I ended up waking up at around 5pm on Friday too because of driving to and back from Chicago Thursday night for band practice. So I've had three days to make adjustments and somehow I managed to not budge that time 1 iota over that entire time (with the exception of Friday night, which involved no sleep)! Oh well. Tomorrow could get rough.

Anyway though, we'll see how it goes - I'm not too upset really. It'll be good to make some money again. Meanwhile, the bigger concern really is that there's still a lot of weird things that have come up that I need to take care of - and remembering it all is going to be a trick. Time to bust out with the list-making... [00:15]