Anatomy of Insomnia 2025

Sleep deprivation continues to plague the old codger. The target bedtime is set to 11:10pm. The target duration is set to 8 hours. The Watch Series 9 then tracks four out of five parameters to derive the sleep score. Wrist temperature is not included because the Sleep Focus feature is not activated.

As usual, the intent to sleep well applied to last night. Bedtime occurred at 11:05pm. Sometime around 1am, a major bout with post-nasal drip transpired for no apparent reason and continued until 4pm. At 4:30am, the fat ugly ho’ took her mangy mutt out for a walk. The ho’ walks very slow for obvious reasons, so it takes the obese slob nearly four minutes to traverse the length of the parking lot at the “old folks home in Waikiki. The mangy mutt was barking and squealing all the way. At 6am, the sound of the reverse alarm beeping of an unidentified truck broke the silence. At 6:30am, the attempt to sleep was aborted.

The need to “drain the lizard” resulted in eight interruptions. The average amount of time between each “drain the lizard” session was 42 minutes. The cause and frequency seems to be food-related. However, identifying the culprit has been elusive.

So far, the dinner fare has only included salads, frozen “healthy” meals, or a combination of both. Evening snacks are selected from whatever is available, which includes roasted nuts, raisins, Chobani® Greek yogurt, Orowheat® cinnamon raisin English muffins, and Thomas’® cinnamon raisin bagels.

All daily activities have been affected by sleep deprivation including the composition of new posts to Notes. The daily gym workouts are now temporarily modified “on the fly” to compensate for fatigue and to prevent triggering an SVT event. All in all, continued sleep deprivation will likely result in a “keel over” event occurring with a short time frame. A modification of all current policies is imminent.

Addendum: The Chobani Greek yogurt is now suspect. It has not been consumed as an evening snack for a while (until last night). The sugar content is high. Lactose intolerance is also highly probable.