I placed it here in the general part of the forum because if you bear with me and read on, you will see that it does indeed deal with general pipe smoking. Please oh great moderator/s do not let thine wrath be wrecked upon your poor humble servant.
This is all, 'cross-my-heart and spit-on-the-floor', true. I'm going to be 64 soon and I take a number of meds. Some for a hiatus hernia and also sleep meds. The name of the sleep medication is Sublinox which is a sublingual form of sleep medication meaning you place it under your tongue about 20 minutes before you wand to fall asleep. I have suffered with insomnia for years. Anyway, sometimes just before I climb into bed or, if I wake up around 1am, something in my brain says, "Get up and forage" or, "gee, it's one o'clock in the morning! What a great time to make yourself a cup of coffee! So I will get up and in a semi-zombie like half sleep state start rummaging around in the pantry for something to eat. It's important to note that I don't open my eyes and I don't turn on the light. The reason is because that would mean coming completely awake. The goal is to forage and not totally wake up so you can then go back to bed. I eat whatever I can lay my hands on without opening my eyes. Crackers, raw macaroni, assorted baking ingredients my wife keeps in the pantry and raw oatmeal. The raw oatmeal shoveled into my mouth with my fingers and my eyes closed is especially good. I think. The conversation from my dearest in the morning usually goes something like this. "What the hell is all this stuff on the kitchen floor? It looks like a herd of squirrels or raccoons have been in here during the night! Were you up looking for something to eat again last night?????
This past Sunday night I had a craving for a coffee. Don't ask me WHY I wanted a cup of coffee at 1am in the morning or how I made myself a coffee at 1am in the morning. Well, actually I have become quite skilled at foraging at night in the pantry. Then I truly had a light-bulb moment. Yes indeed my fine pipe smoking friends I truly did.
I decided to come downstairs to my office with coffee in hand, turn on my PC and then, oh yes, and then put a 'WTB' thread IN THE CORRECT AREA OF THE FORUM!
This is kind of sorta where I crashed and burned. Fumbling around with the mouse and getting to the correct place on the correct forum half asleep with your eyes mostly closed is truly a challenge. I managed to find the correct forum. I even managed to find the correct AREA of the forum. Or so I thought.
I turned the PC off. Finished my coffee in the dark. Crawl-walked back up stairs and slipped quietly and smugly back into bed. HA! Mission accomplished.
As soon as my phone chirped yesterday morning and I saw the message was from a moderator I had a real, "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!" moment wracking my brain trying to recall what I must have done wrong last night.
Even worse, what did I buy? Did I have my credit card? Where is my credit card dammit!
Yes folks, it was a moderator informing me that I had placed my WTB in the God bleeping wrong area and he had deleted it. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you God! I didn't spend any money indiscreetly. I'll still be married this evening.
There it is folks. The really humiliating thing is that my wife and my kids know about my nocturnal forays into the pantry and have even caught me making gakking sounds with my mouth half full of soggy, raw oatmeal. And they laughed at me! Laughed at me the gawd dammed ingrates!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is all, 'cross-my-heart and spit-on-the-floor', true. I'm going to be 64 soon and I take a number of meds. Some for a hiatus hernia and also sleep meds. The name of the sleep medication is Sublinox which is a sublingual form of sleep medication meaning you place it under your tongue about 20 minutes before you wand to fall asleep. I have suffered with insomnia for years. Anyway, sometimes just before I climb into bed or, if I wake up around 1am, something in my brain says, "Get up and forage" or, "gee, it's one o'clock in the morning! What a great time to make yourself a cup of coffee! So I will get up and in a semi-zombie like half sleep state start rummaging around in the pantry for something to eat. It's important to note that I don't open my eyes and I don't turn on the light. The reason is because that would mean coming completely awake. The goal is to forage and not totally wake up so you can then go back to bed. I eat whatever I can lay my hands on without opening my eyes. Crackers, raw macaroni, assorted baking ingredients my wife keeps in the pantry and raw oatmeal. The raw oatmeal shoveled into my mouth with my fingers and my eyes closed is especially good. I think. The conversation from my dearest in the morning usually goes something like this. "What the hell is all this stuff on the kitchen floor? It looks like a herd of squirrels or raccoons have been in here during the night! Were you up looking for something to eat again last night?????
This past Sunday night I had a craving for a coffee. Don't ask me WHY I wanted a cup of coffee at 1am in the morning or how I made myself a coffee at 1am in the morning. Well, actually I have become quite skilled at foraging at night in the pantry. Then I truly had a light-bulb moment. Yes indeed my fine pipe smoking friends I truly did.
I decided to come downstairs to my office with coffee in hand, turn on my PC and then, oh yes, and then put a 'WTB' thread IN THE CORRECT AREA OF THE FORUM!
This is kind of sorta where I crashed and burned. Fumbling around with the mouse and getting to the correct place on the correct forum half asleep with your eyes mostly closed is truly a challenge. I managed to find the correct forum. I even managed to find the correct AREA of the forum. Or so I thought.
I turned the PC off. Finished my coffee in the dark. Crawl-walked back up stairs and slipped quietly and smugly back into bed. HA! Mission accomplished.
As soon as my phone chirped yesterday morning and I saw the message was from a moderator I had a real, "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!" moment wracking my brain trying to recall what I must have done wrong last night.
Even worse, what did I buy? Did I have my credit card? Where is my credit card dammit!
Yes folks, it was a moderator informing me that I had placed my WTB in the God bleeping wrong area and he had deleted it. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you God! I didn't spend any money indiscreetly. I'll still be married this evening.
There it is folks. The really humiliating thing is that my wife and my kids know about my nocturnal forays into the pantry and have even caught me making gakking sounds with my mouth half full of soggy, raw oatmeal. And they laughed at me! Laughed at me the gawd dammed ingrates!!!!!!!!!!!!
