Assorted Insomnia

I have insomnia tonight. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't just go ahead and rename this my insomnia blog, since that seems to be the main thing that I use it for. In any case, I've compiled a list of the things keeping me awake tonight:

• My cat's snoring. It's pretty soft, and it's more of a wheeze than a snore, but it's definitely audible.
• Wondering if I'm physically addicted to codeine, since I think I might be experiencing withdrawal. It's a pattern that I think I just identified tonight: on the nights that I take my pain medication, I generally feel a lot better and don't have as much trouble sleeping. On the nights that I don't, my muscles feel really strange and I have a general sense of discomfort that leads to me tossing and turning. I guess I'll talk to the doctor about that. Speaking of symptoms, patterns, and talking to the doctor...
• Deciding to create a log of my health to try to eliminate some of the communication error when dealing with my doctor with respect to my symptoms and medication. I'll just keep it in a text file in Dropbox so I can show it to him on my phone, I guess.
• Fantasizing (night-dreaming?) about creating an artificial intelligence that decides to peacefully coexist with humans rather than destroy them. It turns out that she creates a humanoid robot body because it is desirable to appear human to interact with human society without revealing her existence. Oh, and it's a she because I named her Manta.
• Work stuff, i.e. whether it's worth it to put a lot of work into Twain for a resubmission now that I've graduated (Oh, and I got my diploma in the mail, so it's officially official), and what's going on with my background investigation and what I'm going to do if I don't hear back from those people soon.
• Wondering what other pieces of furniture we should rearrange in our apartment, after rearranging a bunch of stuff today to make way for a new TV in our bedroom. Looking into whether we can use Netflix on the Xbox without a Gold subscription (looks like we can't) or whether I'll just have to suck it up and move the Wii back there. It's not like we use it very often, and with Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale (PASBR?) on the way I don't see us playing much Brawl anymore.
• Enjoying some wordplay brought to me by Gwibber/Twitter. Rebleeting (retweeting on a blog):

  @JaneEspenson
  Commercial: "Watch dark circles visibly vanish." I think this is a case of an adverb beating a verb to death.

• After my laptop power cable just became unplugged, I remembered that my phone's battery is dying. So I went shopping and found a new one for $4 with free shipping on Amazon. I'm skeptical, but the reviews are positive at least.
• Starting to post all of this on G+, then realizing it's too long and turning it into a blog post instead.
• Adding a bunch of links to the post, taking me back to the days of Everything2, before Wikipedia was a thing. Or at least the thing that it is now. Oh, but don't follow that link. You might find posts (like this one) from me on Everything2 from when I was 15 or something, and I'm sure they'd be embarrassing (like this one). Remember kids, Internet never forgets.

And now, since I'm still not really sleepy, I'm going to sneak back into the bedroom and procure my Nook so I can read a bit more of A Clash of Kings to try to put myself to sleep.