Sleep in all its forms
It looks like it’s past five am again. Not to worry, it’s now Saturday morning, and nothing happens on Saturdays. It’s all just a question of getting some sleep.
Thing is that several things are keeping me away from sleep right now, and one of them is sleep. It’s a linux command, that neatly counts out the number of seconds, minutes, hours or days you specify. This one is meant to be waiting five minutes, before changing the wallpaper. At the moment it’s averaging about 45 seconds. It’s one of those little niggling things that seem to happen so often in linux, yet appear completely unrepairable.
It just changed again.
On the upside, the script appears to be changing the wallpaper at random, which it isn’t actually supposed to do, but I wanted that functionality anyway so it saves me coding it in later.
One alternative would be to use usleep, or microsleep (completely unrelated to the bodily phenomenon), but that involves counting to 300 000 really really fast, and I’m not sure if the PC would appreciate that too much.
What the hell, that was less than ten seconds.
I got my exam results today, and they were pleasant enough. I marginally failed Introduction to Digital Design, which is not an issue since its sequel module, Digital and Analogue Design, is going rather well, so that’s something to look forward to in the summer. The other results were very pleasant, which is a good feeling after all the mess of last year. The fact that I failed what is basically the electronics module though is possibly a very strong hint that I’ve placed my interests incorrectly.
There have been, uh, other things keeping me awake the last couple of weeks too, but they won’t be discussed here 
Good night.
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