I love the integration of GPS and Google Maps. My location updates in real time. I can find locations and get directions on the fly.

I love the speedy 3G data transfers. Web pages load quickly.

I love the keyboard. I heard stories about the upper row being difficult to tap, particularly for peeps like me with gorilla hands and fingers, but so far I’ve had no problems typing. QWERTY > Numpad

I love having all my contacts and communications in one place. I can check all of my e-mail accounts, send/receive instant messages and text messages and multimedia messages all with this device in one easy to use interface. Just for kicks tonight at work I had 5 conversations going all at once using AIM, Yahoo! instant message, text message, and Gmail.

I love that I can finally start moblogging with my pictures and movies via Flickr and YouTube while out and about.

Ahhh… technology…

Snort. Snnnnnck. Zzzzzzz. (Heavy breathing.)

In the bed next to me, and the bedroom across the hall, the sounds of sleep are all around me. And yet here I am, wide awake, and it is almost 6am.

Sigh.

I know that if I lie down to attempt sleep I’ll just stare at the ceiling. Pissed off that yet again I cannot sleep. It isn’t fair.

Miriam sometimes falls asleep in mid-sentence. We’ll be lying in bed having a comical, half-conscious conversation that makes little sense, and she’ll start snoring before she’s completed her thought. I have a good LOL and get up. I’d rather sit at the computer and write for a few hours than lay there angry and awake.

When it’s bedtime I’m not sleepy. Even after a busy 18 hour day. Even when I only got 4 hours of sleep the night before. I just won’t sleep.

Sleepers just don’t get it. They think it’s all in your mind. Well, yeah, I suppose it is. I simply cannot turn my brain off. I’m always thinking about…. shit.

How much longer do I have at work before I can apply for a different department? When is my credit card payment due? I should be spending more time in the mountains, I still haven’t fly fished this year. I sure would like to have a female black lab named Guenhwyvar, I’d feed her Triscuits and let her sleep on the bed. I’m tired of living in the city, I want to see pine trees every day. What was that noise? Miriam sure is cute when she’s snoring.

I suppose in a few more hours I’ll be sufficiently exhausted and able to sleep. But by then it will be time to get up.