Too Sleepy For Sex
California Girl and I have not had sex since Sunday. That’s not unusual; there have always been times when our schedules made weekday sex difficult. What is unusual is that when our schedules did align last night, I fell asleep. California Girl can recount several times when she was unsuccessful in waking me up. I can’t think of another time, however, when I simply was too sleepy for sex.
I was doing things in the evening this week on Monday and Tuesday and California Girl had long since gone to sleep by the time I came to bed but I had nothing to do on Wednesday. So, I made sure that when California Girl said that she was going up to bed, that I finished up what I was doing and followed her a few minutes later. I brushed my teeth, got undressed, got into bed and the next thing I remember it was Thursday morning. I haven’t gotten much sleep lately but did not think I’m as sleep deprived as I apparently was. I hope California Girl doesn’t make to big of a deal about it. She was still asleep when I left for work in the morning so we haven’t had a chance to discuss it. I probably will hear some jokes about it. The concept of me being too sleepy for sex has always been amusing to her. Especially since I even limit the number of drinks I have when we are out just to make sure that I’m ready for later.
For the first time in my life I feel old. I am not used to having to restrict my evening activities to ensure that I get enough rest. I have always been able to stay up as late as I want and never have any issues.
What was I doing? Sunday night, I was working on the unattended backup of our main computer. It hasn’t been completing since a power failure a couple of weeks ago. (The job started fine and was running well but died after I went to bed so the problem still is not resolved.) I got about 2 hours of sleep. Monday night, I was working on my WordPress plugin to count visitors to my blog. I finished the PHP fairly quickly but had a problem getting it to work with my current theme. I got about 2 hours of sleep. Tuesday night, I updated the usage statistics of some of our other websites. We recently discovered that counts were all wrong due to me changing the frequency of log rotations back in December. I ended up having to reprocess everything for the past two years. I got about 2 hours of sleep. Generally I’m good so long as I get at least a couple hours of sleep but that was not the case this time. On Wednesday, I went to bed and crashed.
So, I traded some late night tinkering on the computer for sex with California Girl. I didn’t know at the time that would be the outcome so I’m pretty bummed. I feel like an old man.
