Poor me...
Oct. 28th, 2009 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarBleh. Yesterday, I woke up and went to stumble forth from the bedroom. We have light-blocking blinds and black curtains, so even at high noon our room is pretty dark- you can imagine how it might look at 645 on a rainy morning- that's right, kids- pitch black.
We've taken to using our cell phones as flashlights (hell, the external screen on my phone is bright enough to keep me from accidentally killing myself) since the light switch is on the other side of the room from the bed, we keep forgetting to pick up a lamp, oh, and it's a lot less of a shock to the poor eyes that have been light-deprived for the last eight hours.
The main downside is that the backlight on a cell phone eventually goes off. I know some of them have timer control. Sadly mine doesn't, it only last a few seconds- I really should learn and just use my ipod, which has brightness control (your retinas don't want to be hit by that thing at 100% in a dark room) and can get up to six minutes at a shot. But I digress...
So I initially had light to see by and then it went out. Before I could hit a button for more light, I started to lose my balance. I put out a hand to grab the wall, but it turned out I was a bit farther from the wall than I thought I was...I eventually got the wall, but I ended up falling and landing on the air conditioner that I had pulled out of the window the other week, one cold rainy morning in order to be able to close off the air leaks, and put down next to the bed because I was really tired and didn't feel like carrying it elsewhere. Between the crashing and my screaming, I think I scared poor![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chironcentaur half to death, and straight out of her sleep.
Unfortunately, I ended up getting scraped up pretty good- I've got all these big, puffy scratches across my lower back, as well as a few on my left calf and a bit of a knot, plus I landed on my left wrist and it's still quite sore.
Words to the wise, kids...move your air conditioners!
We've taken to using our cell phones as flashlights (hell, the external screen on my phone is bright enough to keep me from accidentally killing myself) since the light switch is on the other side of the room from the bed, we keep forgetting to pick up a lamp, oh, and it's a lot less of a shock to the poor eyes that have been light-deprived for the last eight hours.
The main downside is that the backlight on a cell phone eventually goes off. I know some of them have timer control. Sadly mine doesn't, it only last a few seconds- I really should learn and just use my ipod, which has brightness control (your retinas don't want to be hit by that thing at 100% in a dark room) and can get up to six minutes at a shot. But I digress...
So I initially had light to see by and then it went out. Before I could hit a button for more light, I started to lose my balance. I put out a hand to grab the wall, but it turned out I was a bit farther from the wall than I thought I was...I eventually got the wall, but I ended up falling and landing on the air conditioner that I had pulled out of the window the other week, one cold rainy morning in order to be able to close off the air leaks, and put down next to the bed because I was really tired and didn't feel like carrying it elsewhere. Between the crashing and my screaming, I think I scared poor
chironcentaur half to death, and straight out of her sleep.Unfortunately, I ended up getting scraped up pretty good- I've got all these big, puffy scratches across my lower back, as well as a few on my left calf and a bit of a knot, plus I landed on my left wrist and it's still quite sore.
Words to the wise, kids...move your air conditioners!
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