Yukon Induced Insomnia

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 1:49 | William

Since I bought my http://www.selectcomfort.com - it's hard to really describe the friggin difference.  I really can't describe it.  About 4 weeks ago I was telling one of my co-workers that I was really lucky we have such flexible schedules b/c if I actually had to be at work at 8:00, I'd be in a lot of trouble b/c I wasn't getting to be until 4:30 and sometimes 5:30.  I'd sleep right through my alarm.  I had the Chinese disease [dragon a33] at work and was pretty miserable.  Then came my Select comfort bed.  The hype is sooooooooo real about them, I really can't describe it.  Now, I never sleep past 6:00 and if I try, I get ancy by 7:00 and can't take it any more.  Normally I'm up and energized by 5:30 which rocks.  So tonight it's an exception.... I started getting ready for my notification services presentation and just got carried away.  I started doing something really really naughty with Web Services. Both EDC and Sonny came out of their clocks to egg me on.  Well, my better side got to me and I got back into notification services.  That was at 11:30.  Seems like Insomnia is back and live,although this time It's welcomed b/c I could go to be at any second.  Anyway, I got this really cool idea.  I could create a program that wakes up and sends  a message so my notification sees it.  Then I could tell myself to go to sleep in case I was up late and should have been a sleep.  Then it dawned on my - why not just use MessageBox.Show(“Go to F~cking sleep already Bill“); but that would of course be too easy.

Right now, I'm having some trouble getting my SqlDependency's to work, but Art Bell is on on the background and some lady is calling in claiming to be from another Universe - she claims there were 500 other universes.  Kind of funny that there's a nice round number.  Do you remember the joke T-Shirt “Define Universe, Give 3 examples”.  Guess the lady never got the joke.

  I don't want to steal my own thunder for next week, but to set up Notifications here's essentially what you need:

CREATE DATABASE Cuckoo
GO

USE Cuckoo
GO
CREATE MESSAGE TYPE [CuckooRequest] VALIDATION = NONE
CREATE MESSAGE TYPE [CuckooResponse] VALIDATION = NONE

CREATE CONTRACT [CuckooContract]
(
[CuckooRequest] SENT BY initiator,
[CuckooResponse] SENT BY target
)
CREATE QUEUE [CuckooTargetQueue]
CREATE QUEUE [CuckooInitiatorQueue]
CREATE SERVICE [CuckooRequestService] ON QUEUE [CuckooTargetQueue]
(
[CuckooContract]
)

CREATE SERVICE [CuckooResponseService] ON QUEUE [CuckooInitiatorQueue]
GO

USE Cuckoo

GO

SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE
@Conversation UNIQUEIDENTIFIER
BEGIN TRANSACTION

BEGIN
DIALOG @Conversation
FROM SERVICE [CuckooResponseService]
TO SERVICE 'CuckooRequestService'
ON CONTRACT [CuckooContract]
WITH ENCRYPTION = OFF, LIFETIME = 400;

SEND ON CONVERSATION @Conversation
MESSAGE TYPE [CuckooRequest] (N'Create the Web Service Bill, you know you want to...')

COMMIT
 
Probably a good point to call it a night.

Comments

# William said on March 29, 2005 8:45 AM:

So those mattresses are that good eh? My wife and I want to get one but weren't sure that they were all that. The main reason she wants the bed is because I'm a sleeper who moves around a lot at night - I'm sleeping but I'm always tossing and turning, and she's a light sleeper so I wake her up a lot. She figures that if we get one of these mattresses then she won't be able to feel it when I flop around.

Oh, and I've got to ask - Who the h3ll is Juan T. LLibre?!?

# William said on March 29, 2005 8:51 AM:

Skicow - I can't really describe how good they are in words. You have two remote controls too, so you an each inflate each side of the bed to where you want it. I used to toss and turn more than you could imagine and tht's what woke me up a lot. I don't do it at all now. You get a 30 day trial as well, so if you don't like it, you can have it returned and it actually is really small and light and assembles into a real big bed. i got a Tempurpedic pillow as well and am loving it.

Juan is an ASP.NET MVP who I would basically describe as Howard Dean if he was Dominican and French, and lot more leftist and wacky. He's probably a pretty decent fellow but he loves posting provactive political stuff and getting indignant to those that disagree with him. All and all I think he's a good dude, I just like busting b4lls sometimes.

# William said on March 29, 2005 10:24 AM:

Bill - am I correct in assuming that we can buy a Select Comfort mattress and use it with our existing boxspring? We've got a king sized bed with one of those thick assed pillow-top mattresses, about 14" thick, and if we could just buy the Select Comfort mattress and replace our existing one that would be sweet!

Ah, I assumed that Juan was a guy that had ticked you off in some way ;)

# William said on March 29, 2005 10:42 AM:

Skicow - yes, you can. There's a box spring that they'll sell you that looks like a a bunch of Reebok Steps put together. It's light, easy to take apart and assemble and the thinking behind it is that since it's hard plastic, it's firmness is uniform across the bed. I got this thing b/c moving my Queen size box spring was a bitch and they gave me a huge discount on it. As far as the mattresses go, the only real difference between them is that the more expensive ones have quieter pumps on them. I got the cheapo one which mattress wise is the same - it's just that the pump is different. The most expensive one is totally silent. However the noise mine makes is absolutely negligible. The Buzzing of my IMate vibrating on my nightstand is about the equivalent of the pump - and it's not like you pump the thing very often - I've played with mine about 5 times just to get it to where I wanted it and haven't touched it since then.

Juan didn't really tick me off. The thing is that he gets really serious about stuff. I actually think he's a good dude and I don't necessarily disagree with him on the ocntent of a lot of his stuff, it's just that he likes to be a jerk about it. I'm just busting balls really, nothign seriuos.

# William said on March 29, 2005 11:13 AM:

Bill - Thanks for all the info WRT the mattress, especially about the price difference being only for the pump noise level, I'll do the same as you and get the cheapo one since I don't care how loud the pumps are...and since I've got a king size bed the box spring is two twin box springs which aren't that awkward to move around.

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