Irrelevant Cheetah

Ah. I have been tagged again, and I am a-feared. You see, this tag, coming as it did from Gazing Into the Abyss, has the definite potential of frightening away all six of my readers. Yes, you guessed it: I’ve been chosen to show my face.

Now, before you run screaming from the room, consider this: all you need do is keep your mouse hovering over the ‘home’ button in your browser. Thus, if you see something that you’d rather not, you need only click your mouse button and be transported to wherever your home page is (mine is Blackle, in case you were wondering.)

So, without further ado:

Okay, now that’s out of the way, I suppose I must move on to the interview portion of this meme. (Must they always be so much work?)
Blog title: Irrelevant Cheetah
Description: Just another writer, navel-gazing and offering his view on things
Why “wolf”?: I started using Wolf instead of Wolfram around seventh grade. I got tired of hearing all of the possible ways to mispronounce Wolfram.
Name: Wolfram. I am named after the thirteenth-century German poet-knight, Wolfram von Eschenbach, best known (if at all) for his epic poem, Parsival.
Country: USA
Occupation: Right now I am a data processor for an oilfield services company. It’s really nothing more than the intellectual equivalent of brick-laying, but it pays the bills.
Email: wolf at wolframdonat dot com.
Birthday: March 23 (see if you can guess the year)
Favorite color: Green
Favorite drink: Ice-cold Harp lager, on tap
Favorite fruit: Jack on Will and Grace.
Favorite dessert: Cheesecake
Hobbies: I have so many varied interests it’s hard to select two or three and call them ‘hobbies.’ I know if it’s related to computers or the internet, I’m probably waist-deep in it. I really enjoy writing, and photography, and writing music, and model rockets, and I admit the fact that I’m an adrenaline junkie.
Some of the blogs I know that have posted pics of me: None that I know of. Most bloggers I know are pretty smart cookies.

Now to tag my fellows and hope they still talk to me:
Montucky
Pinhole
WordVixen
All Over the Bored
The usual rules apply: Post a short article and include your photo. If you already have a pic online somewhere, get creative with a new one. Next, include a link to the others who have displayed their pic, or include their pic in your post, adding a reference to it.

And the brave ones who have already risen from blognonymity:

Gayla at Mom Gadget Char at Essential Keystrokes Paul at Reflections Rob at 2Dolphins Zep at The In-Sect Ingo at Stixster Stevie at Lost In Cyberspace The Paper Bull at (oddly enough) The Paper Bull Lisa Sabin-Wilson at Just A Girl In The World Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com Wendy Piersall at eMoms at Home Dennis Bjorn Petersen at The Beta News Randa Clay at Randa Clay Design Drew McLellan at The Marketing Minute Becky McCray at Small Biz Survival Phil Gerbyshak at Make it Great! Steve Woodruff at StickyFigure Dave Olson at Live the GREAT life that you desire Greg at Become a Remote Control SEO Ariane Benefit at Neat Living Blog Genesis at the At Home Mom Blog Armen at iFFECT.NET Mihaela Lica at Online Public Relations Tara at Graphic Design Blog Doris Chua at Home Office Women Edward Mills at Evolving Times Tony D. Clark at Success from the Nest Jonathan-C Phillips at SmartWealthyRich Karen at A Deaf Mom Shares Her World Lisa Gates at intrinsic life design Rammel Firdaus at rammelfirdaus.com Carol at Pentimento Adam Kayce at Monk at Work Thomas at Technical Blogger Tammy Lenski at I Can?t Say That! Chris Brown at Branding & Marketing Rory Sullivan at Hamelife Derek Wong at Going The Wong Way Embuck at embuck.com Ms. Q at QMusings Shelly Tucker at This Eclectic Life Steve at Ramblings from the Marginalized Troy Worman at on!blog Lilith at Lilith’s Owl Nest Revov at REVO-OVER Karin at Stop/Start Jamy at Seay’s Kopitam this is a miracle Anything Goes! My Life Starts at Forty-Two Seiche Gazing Into the Abyss

The final step is that if you do link back to me, let me know and I’ll show you some link love as well. Everybody loves link love.

That’s all I ask. I don’t need forty - just twenty would do nicely. If Hypnos, the god of sleep, would see fit to send me some shut-eye, I’d be eternally grateful.

I occasionally suffer from insomnia, but this latest bout is no fun whatsoever. I’m a huge fan of melatonin, and I think whoever discovered it should be deified get free chocolate milkshakes for life, but alas, melatonin has deserted me and left me wanting.

I can’t think of many worse things than flopping around in bed, staring at (in order) the ceiling, the clock, the ceiling, the wife, the dog, the ceiling, and then seeing if you can do lightning-quick shadow puppets on your wife’s face every time some passing headlights happen to illuminate the room. I have read that if you can’t fall asleep in twenty minutes, stop trying. Get up, do something else, and eventually you’ll get tired and be ready to sleep. But my question is this: if you get up and stop trying to sleep so you can get to sleep, aren’t you still trying? Perhaps if you laid in bed and tried your damnedest to stay awake and think about kangaroos, you wouldn’t be trying anymore, but then somewhere in the back of your mind you’d know you were actually trying to sleep, so the whole exercise would be pointless.

I’m not sure if that last sentence made sense, but at this point I’m not sure if I care, either. I’m going to go try/not-try to fall asleep/stay awake/study the Kabbalah. See you in the morning.