"Sleep Control" Positive or Negitive??

Tonight I am puzzled by people's ability to fall asleep on a whim. You know that weird ability to lay your head down at any given moment and fall asleep. This concept does not seem normal. And naturally this scenario is on my mind on a school night and everyone has been in bed since 9:00pm. I know there are several factors that come into play when inducing sleep. This is what is so puzzling. Example 1: Being tired and sleepy. I only got 4 hours of sleep because this is the 2nd night this has puzzled me. So I was up thinking about why I was thinking and not sleeping. Example 2: Its a pretty average time of day for nocturnal rest. I'm aware giving my history as a so called night owl, that this comes into play. But really, I don't go to bed late every night. Especially if example 1 is a factor. Example 3 will be skipped because the number 3 and I are not friends and that's a whole other issue entirely. Moving on to example 4: given a proper sleeping atmosphere ie a warm bed, flannel pj pants, darkness etc....I'm still the type of person that has to make myself fall asleep. I am aware that napping is a different story for me. Given my years of having to wear a breathing machine anytime I sleep. This has trained my brain that when there is an absence of a slight hum from a machine blowing air into my nose that it's not time for sleeping. But here lies the interesting part I'm laying here in a sleeping atmosphere with my breathing machine on and I'm still not able to just fall asleep. This ability I will call "sleep control" is interesting. I don't know if this is a power of bad or good. I see pros and cons for this ability which I will state a few. No less then 2 no more then 4. Reason explained above. Pro analysis column will start with A. The atmosphere for your ability to fall sleep is irrelevant. You could fall asleep on a bed, on a sled, in a boat, with a goat, on a plane, or in a train, fall asleep on a chair, or at a fair, truly unfair that you could fall asleep anywhere. That tangent was brought to you by Dr. Seuss and again even a bedtime story did not help my "sleep control". Pro B. Being able to blame common functionAlity on your state of sleep. You know like I didn't see my son crawl into bed and kick you in the testicles because I was asleep. Or the ability to keep the concept of time right unless your counting the snooze button timer pushes. Blaming things on sleeping is a great indicator that you have the power of "sleep control". I will now touch on the cons column with con A. Falling asleep in random places by yourself. This is not at all safe or is it productive. If you were new to your "sleep control" powers you might fall asleep in a place you don't want to be found. Or you might fall asleep during an inconvient time. Such as sitting on the toilet in a restaurant. Bad time for a newbie to try out his power while taking a poo. Con B. Having to come up with intelligent answers to questions you said you were awake for, but havent a clue what the question was. This is a test of creativity, intelligence, and bluffing. I must say this part of the "sleep control" power is the most entertaining. This power I speak of I assure you I do not posess. Still analyzing if I even want this power. Now that we have discussed this in detail I'd like your thoughts and comments. For now I'm getting pretty sleepy and tired. Might try and have a conversation with a sleeping child to see if they'll remember talking to me in the morning. Here's to getting at least 4 hours tonight. Good luck to you nocturnal rest deficient people out there.

Keeping it skinny,

FlacoJake

Guys Night

Last night I got to spend about 4 hours just with Dallas. We had 2 missions going to the magic shop to spend his gift cards and going to the buckle. Watching my young magician in the magic shop was awesome. He was like a kid in the candy store. He had $80 to spend in there and he spent all but $5. It was neat to watch him talk to the sales guy cause I knew nothing and Dallas knew exactly what he was talking about. After almost an hour and a half we left with all his new tricks. He was excited and said he wished he could go there everyday.

After the magic shop we made our way to our second destination The Buckle. The young girl associate kept bringing me items to look at. I tried on a few shirts and decided on one. When checking out I used 2-$10 off cards that I had from purchasing a lot there. She wasn't too happy I wanted to use them. Reason being she doesn't get commission when I use those. After checking out I looked at Dallas and said she's not too happy with me. He asked why and I gave a quick explanation of commission. He then says so when she was bringing you stuff it was about money?? I said sort of, he says well that's kinda not cool. Then he said well at least she was Hubba Hubba and winks. So the moral of the story is as long as your pretty you can be mean. I guess I'll have to stick with being nice.

FlacoJake