That elusive thing known as sleep

Still can't seem to sleep. maybe once a week I'll get a good night's sleep, one where I'm in bed by 11PM and don't wake up until 8AM or so. Usually I end up in bed by 11PM or 12Mid and then wake up two or three hours later, after lying awake awhile I get up and go get on the computer and tackle some mundane task - email, finances, or play a game or two.

This morning I woke up at 1:45AM, thinking there was water running, only to discover that it was someone's boombox on the street behind me. The street is a dead end with the dead end being at the creek that runs along my back yard. Lately - actually it doesn't matter but there seems to always be a party or something going on at 1, 2, 3, and 4AM. I sometimes wonder how the other neighbors feel - I'm about three houses away from the offender and they would be right next door. If it isn't the music, its the yelling and arguing that will wake you. In the winter once the leaves are all gone from the trees, the lights from the cars coming down the street shine right into the bedroom...and there is one person who's car talks - when the back up it says "Attention please...the car is backing up...Attention please...the car is backing up"

Anyway aside from that distraction, I'm just not sleeping well. I guess too many tasks at hand, too many things to decide, too many demands on my time and too many problems to solve. Partly because I'm "retired", everyone thinks I should be available for them. Consequnetly my mind is thinking and thinking and thinking and thus I am not sleeping. Typically I'llslepp for two three hours be up for another two or three, catch a quick nap and then get up "officially" by 8 or 9AM, then later in the day it's nap time as very thing seems to want to shutdown. In short my sleep sequence has gotten disrupted.

Now to work on one of those mundane tasks (I did calendars, schedules, to do lists etc earlier this morning) - Taxes - going to calculate how I'm doing so far this year and get a feel for what the end result will be like. Also need to calculate my Networth - every Quarter I do that - and June 30th just past by. Who knows after I finish this I may discover that I need to get a job - boy that will screw things up royally!