Site Updates

How is it that whenever I want to so something online, the site is updating? When I wanted to blog from the Grand Canyon, Blogger was updating - not totally down, but slow enough as to be useless. Now I'm bored with uploading pictures so I want to upload a couple dumb videos and YouTube is doing site maintenance *right now* and won't allow uploads.

Today was less brutal than yesterday as regards staying awake at work after two weeks on the noon to 4am plan of wakefulness. Kind of funny was during the first week I got a text around 1am from an old friend who was confused about which coast I lived on. I texted right back and got an expletive filled "I'm so sorry I woke you up! I'm on the noon to 4 plan and figured you'd answer in the morning." I wrote right back saying it was no problem since I was on the same plan and the same coast. Ahh, the good old days of talking to friends at 2am.

I was asked recently how/why I stay motivated to keep blogging -
(1) I like to talk. In the absence of that I type.
(2) Friends tell me they read it.
(3) There are ideas that I need to get out of my head, but want to keep hold of. Like the laundry sorting. Or designing low median flow faucets.
(4) I'm still not sold on facebook and haven't put in the time to figure out twitter.
(5) It's my equivalent of calling a friend at 2am when I can't call a friend at 2am.