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I finally spoke with my doctor today. After 3 weeks. It appears that I do have sleep apnea. Again it's not totally a rare thing, in fact a good percentage of people have minor apnea events when they sleep, but I guess I have it bad enough to need treatment. So bad news but good news.

I have been so so tired during the day. I can barely think some days. But now, I hope the treatment helps.

The doc said that I stopped breathing up to 33 times an hour and for as long as 30 seconds at a time. That sounds nutso. I didn't get into a REM state either. I suppose that's bad.

Now I need to be fitted with a cpap thing. It's a machine and mask that helps you breathe. It forces a little bit of air into your face or something that keeps your air passage open. Hopefully my insurance will cover it all.

By the way, the new typepad compose editor is much better. Works on Safari well. :)

Oh and Yahoo is laying off a bunch of folks as expected. Though I imagine you know that already... I might comment on that pretty soon. Lots to say, just not sure when to say it.

Sleep StudyOctober 9

It's been too long since my last post. I used to update this constantly, but not so much lately. I blame twitter. Well I also blame Yahoo and 12seconds, but for other reasons. Twitter is a monkey on my back. So I'm going to slow down my tweets and get into recovery.

A week ago I went to a sleep study. I've had lots of trouble over the past few years with alertness and getting any kind of normal, decent sleep. I may have sleep apnea, which is somewhat common, but not always diagnosed. Sleep apnea is a condition where you stop breathing for a period of time until your brain freaks out and wakes you up. It's a constant cycle of going to sleep, stop breathing, and waking up. Except that you don't really know it's happening. The problem is that you never get into a deep, restful sleep. I don't know if I have it, but that what the sleep study is for. We'll see. Part of me hopes that I don't have it, but part of me hopes that I do. Having it would mean that I can get treatment and maybe get a real night's sleep. It might help with all sorts of things. I don't know. I'll let you know.

It takes place in a doctor's office with beds. They hook wires all over your head, face, chest, and legs. The wires are connected to a box that sends signals to a computer which measures your sleep activity. You spend the night at this place and are supposed to sleep while you look like you're plugged in to the matrix. I did sleep, pretty much as normal, but the environment was odd a

What to write?September 17

I've started and stopped a ton of blog posts during the past month. I don't know why. I either can't finish a thought, or don't have time... or it's a little of both.

This election has got me all crazy. This country has gotten me all crazy. I wish I didn't care, and I wish that those that don't care paid more attention. I have to believe that the majority of the people who go to the polls will do the right thing, because I can't believe that there are that many frightened millionaires out there who'd pull the lever for McCain.

I think that music albums should be 6 songs or less. If I were going to start a record label again, all my releases would be that short. They'd be cheaper, smaller downloads, and we could release more, more often.

I may have sleep apnea. I'm not a fan. I go to a sleep study on october 1. I wake up every now and then gasping for air.

Friday is Talk Like A Pirate Day and 12seconds is celebrating!

12 Favorite 12secondsAugust 31

Hello,

Here are 12 of my favorite 12seconds (off the top of my head):

What are yours? Blog or Tweet 'em!

Thanks,
beach

The Michael Jackson LettersAugust 29

It all started with an innocent letter.

I just thought I would write Michael Jackson a letter and offer him some advice, what happened next is still hard for me to believe. Here is the first letter. I'll post the replies and the ongoing correspondence over the next few weeks. enjoy??

Mr. Michael Jackson
Not Neverland, CA
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Giant Laser Eyed Robot Thing, Las Vegas, NV

Dear Mr. Jackson,

I am a big fan. But not really... eh.

Let me explain. I like the ABC Michael Jackson, Off The Wall Michael Jackson, and some of Thriller Michael Jackson. I am not a fan of the monkey carrying Michael Jackson. However, I have never knowingly called you "wacko-jacko".

Michael let me be frank, you need a makeover. And not some nipping, tucking, smoothing, and peeling kind of thing. I'm talking about a musical makeover. Hey let's face it, you're not a kid anymore. Am I right? You're like 50 or something. It's okay to get older. Everybody does it. Even Peter Pan got older in that Steven Spielberg version with the creepy lost boys and the precocious Julia Roberts. You don't have to dance the same as you used to. No m