screw it all, screw it deep

[darkoshi]

I was finally warmed up enough, feeling nice and toasty. But then lying in bed, felt hungry. It's late enough in the day now that I really ought to be up, even though I got only 4.5 hours of sleep.

There's a Nextdoor post about a recent break-in in the neighborhood. The burglar must not have been able to completely kick the door in, but enough so to make a hole big enough to reach inside to unlock it.

That reminded me of an undone item on my to-do list, installing longer screws on my doors' strike plates and hinges. As well as replacing some of the strike plates, apparently.

So I thought that maybe I could get started on that today. Should be easy, right? Drill the holes deeper, replace some screws... (I'd forgotten the part about replacing the strike plates.)

Being low on sleep seems to make me feel a greater sense of urgency about random things like this. Like my brain is less able to moderate impulses. Sometimes it helps me get things done. Sometimes it side-tracks me from doing things that I ought to have been doing instead.

Now where did I put those long screws? And do I have any drill bits here, or did I take all the good ones to Qiao's house when I was putting up the extra hooks on his porch?

Comments

[lhexan]

I find that lack of sleep diminishes inhibitions in general... this is bad insofar as it makes me more impulsive, but good insofar as it makes me more voluble. The lack of sleep during furry conventions does more good than harm, oddly enough.

[darkoshi]

Yep, fewer inhibitions. It seems to make me want to post more things on DW. At work, I'm more likely to send an email without triple and quadruple-checking it, leading me to notice mistakes a few seconds after hitting Send.

[lhexan]

Yeah, I'm all-too-aware of how easy such mistakes are. They're even more embarrassing now that I'm an editor. Add in excess caffeine or deficient sleep, and they become numerous. -_-

[marahmarie]

I wish I could blame lack of sleep on my failure to pre-edit correctly but nope, that seems more ingrained.