Can't sleep. Clowns will eat me...

OK. I've been up for the last hour. I just spontaneously woke up after about 3½ hours sleep. I felt tired when I went to bed, but now...?!? Maybe I'm just excited about the new job or something.

Christine's Trees

<td align="left" bgcolor="#000000">I realised as I was fooling around with this image (I don't actually think this one is very good) how much my aethetic is influenced by my nearsightedness. This is virtually exactly how I see things with my glasses off. In addition to being nearsighted I do not have binocular vision so the cues I use to gauge depth are parallax and focus. I was mildly interested in these manipulated images before, but now I'd have to say that it has moved from an idle interest to a fascination. Expect more...</td>

Christine's Trees © 2001 Michael R. Barrick

Just a moment in Manhattan

Manhattan Moment

No retouching, shot at this resolution... just a snapshot from my trip...

Geek Alert

OK. I have radiant heat in my apartment and I sleep in a loft bed. The plus side of the radiant heat is cozy warm floors when the heat is on. The downside of the loft bed is it can be excessively warm when the heat has been on for any length of time. So, in general, I turn the heat on for a few minutes in the morning to make the floors warm by the time I get out of the shower and then turn it off before I leave. The problem with this is the floor is still cold first thing in the morning and if I forget it is unbearably warm in the bed and my sleep suffers. Solution: I just bought and installed a programmable thermostat so I can have warm feet in the morning without having to think about it.