KVM

I recently ordered a KVM switch. A Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch is a box into which I will plug one K, one V, one M, and two or more computers. Thus, I will be able to have many CPUs happily whirring away at the same time. I won't need to do anything more than push a button to see what each one is up to, and my desk won't look quite so much like Mission Control.

But KVM, in this post, means Kurt Vonnegut Musings.

I was up very late, last night. And then, when I was supposed to start going to sleep, I started reading a new (to me) book by KV.

I woke up today, squinted through the sunlight at the dim digital clock. Shit. 1:42. Oh, well.

I tottered out to the kitchen to brew coffee and peel oranges. Drank and ate same. Then I started feeling really tired, and despite the already advanced hour, I couldn't help but go lie down again. I picked up the book that I had started the night before, read about two more pages, and fell right back to sleep.

I have just woken up, and I feel vastly refreshed, and I am surprised to see that it is still sunny out. I just wandered out to the kitchen to feed the felines, and looked at the clock out there. 12:42.

Now, it's possible that I mis-read the dim clock when I first woke up, and that it really had said 7:42.

But get this: The title of the book that I was reading is Timequake. It concerns the universe contracting for a short bit, so that everyone has to relive the years 1991-2001 over again, doing exactly the same things the second time around.

I was just at the part where the expansion has restarted, 2001 rolls around for the second time, and free will is beginning to take hold again.

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I want to leave you with this fine line:

Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good. -- Kurt Vonnegut