Well, the results of my recent sleep study are back. Though I felt I slept rather peacefully that night, my doctor says I have sleep apnea. I’ve got the mildest case, apparently, but its there.

My options now are

• Wear a CPAP mask during sleep (noisy and uncomfortable)
• Wear a mandibular advancement splint during sleep (quiet and somewhat less uncomfortable)
• Have my tonsils removed (short term pain for long-term gain. Solves problem.)
• Do nothing

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We’ve been packing boxes in the evenings until our garage was filled to the ceiling with them. Even so, our upcoming move was still not quite tangible until this morning when we got our PODS storage container delivered. Within fifteen minutes, a driver had delivered our container and expertly positioned it on our driveway. It was quite entertaining to watch the whole process.
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The new job is going okay after two days. I’m getting the firehose treatment when it comes to learning the product. Everything is a bit abstract as most of the servers and data is in Germany. Not having a company laptop yet also keeps me from poking around more.
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I woke up before dawn this morning, pulled on my sneakers, and went for a walk around the neighborhood. I’ve become way too lazy in the past few months and its starting to show around my waistline, so I’m going back to regular exercise beginning today.

The weather was perfect for walking, too, with temperatures in the 50s and winds calm. I took a lap around Hobhouse Circle before taking the greenway to Camp Durant Road and back. It was a short circuit (ha!) but it was a start.
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Friday was also my last day with Zenoss. I thought I might be with them for a long ride but my priorities simply changed within the last few months. I’ve been working from home pretty much exclusively and felt I needed more day-to-day interaction in order to be successful in that position. While I won’t be an employee anymore, I will remain a huge advocate of the product. In fact, I hope to continue to conduct presentations to interested user groups whenever possible.
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I’m on the tail end of a very busy and productive weekend. Let’s see: I cut and installed the last floorboard in my attic project, replaced a broken picket in the fence, fixed the fence gate, turned the compost pile, stored some backyard junk under the deck, packed six or so boxes with dishes and photographs, moved ten boxes into the garage, moved the crib from upstairs storage into the garage, walked with Travis while he rode his bike, visited while Travis played at our neighbor’s house, and helped another neighbor move his refrigerator. And that was just today.
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Our house is starting to fill up with neatly-packed boxes, and its a beautiful thing! We’re taking the stuff off our shelves and putting it away: most of which we probably won’t even miss while its in storage.

Just knowing we’ve gotten started on the whole selling process is a big relief. We’ve still got a list four pages long of things we need to do but we’re breaking it down to smaller parts and doing them when we can.

Contrary to my pessimistic beliefs, I slept very, very well during my sleep study last night. The technician showed me my sleep report card and it seems to reflect a good night’s sleep. Maybe I need to go to bed in a tangle of wires every night!

I’ll post my sleep report once I figure out how to work this Internet thingy.