OK. Remember what I just said about sleep, way back when in the title? It wasn’t an expression, and I wasn’t just being cute.

I’m being stupid.

Because my brain does not work.

Because I am not awake. Even though my eyes are open and I am typing, I should be sleeping and my body is fully aware of the faux pas on my part.

Always. Get enough sleep when you work on the web.

Case in point. I edited this four times.

After it was published.

I really wish that I could tell you with some fair amount of comprehension Why I’m Still Awake. I could give you the long rambly story about how I was doing a traffic video series, and then my software kept crashing.

Then I could explain how I stayed up all day to write an ebook instead, complete with screenshots, only I wasn’t satisfied by the quality and/or methodology of obtaining them. I won’t even go into that tangent though I ache to do so.

And that would bring us, after much meandering, to the point that when I did think I’d be able to sleep I was in pain, then got an important phone call.

During which I found the solution to my problem, enabling me to go back from ebook to video for a product. I feel ebooks are very 1.0 and I’d rather write them as companion guides than main manuals, always, despite how much I actually enjoy the process.

This is because video and/or audio are faster to produce, have even more potential to look professional and are far easier to follow when they are for instructional purposes.

And it’s a fairly pleasant, creative experience.

When stuff works.

But I’m not going to go into the long version of the story with all the witticisms. Because I’m too tired. I’ll just cut to the moral of the story, which is, when you work on the web, get enough sleep.

Even if you’re an insomniac.

Even if there’s a pile of work to be done, and you’re a workaholic.

Even if you’re in pain.
Even if you’re paper-broke and you just want to get the project over with finally, and have a teensy bit of cash flow.
Even then, get your sleep, because if you aren’t operating at at least half-mast, unless all your tasks are rote, you won’t get an em effing thing done.

Seriously.

And a shout-out to Google Blog for getting a cross between the trailer for Snakes on a Plane and the little kid’s speech at the end of Weeds last season stuck in my head.
Because if I was on a plane I’d be saying there are em effing feeds on this em effin plane.

Only I’m not on a plane. At least not the plane of reality. If you see me wandering around the web in a few hours, do me a favor and hit me with a brick.

In the meantime. Promise me you’ll get your Z’s. Or you’ll end up just like me.

Ps - if you click the picture of my eyes, you’ll get the larger image where you can see the red. My eyes are Never red…

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