AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Air conditioners will do it to you every time.

I agree with Wes. Airconditioners dry you out, for one thing. For another, I tend to get a cold as soon as I'm out of the "conditined air." I do suggest you take a cold pill, not the non-drowsy since you WANT to sleep! Anything with a good antihistamine and no speed type things shoulddo. Nyquil in its new caplet for is good, or benadryl. I also suggest you drink fluids and take a steamy shower in the AM. Good luck, Nurse Nancy!

It's only the realization that all we experience in travel, (flying, hotels, rental cars,) is less than what we thought it would be when we were younger and more starry eyed.

There is no magic in going to the airport, or in sleeping in a hotel room. It is probably more than anything, the scent of all those chemicals used to keep germs under control in a place where hundreds of people pass through each week.

Or it could be the air conditioning.

Best to think about some perfect place in your mind before you go to sleep. Take Tylenal PM -- whatever makes you sleepy in Benadryl makes you sleepy with it. Only one pill does the trick, but take it earlier than when you are ready to sleep or you will be drowsy in the morning.

Hi, I just wandered over from jordoncooper.com. I used to travel a lot for basketball tournaments and the first thing we did before bed was to fill the tub with warm water and leave the bathroom door open in our hotel. It humidifies the air throughout the night and lessens the dry scratcy throat/nose problem.
Hope it works for you too.

i travel quite a bit for business. i always try to stay at older hotels with windows that open, and bring enough ganja to put myself to sleep. this is especially true when flying to the east coast.

This code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?

We can see an example of this in our code we've written so far. In each function's block, we declare variables that hold our data. When each function ends, the variables within are disposed of, and the space they were using is given back to the computer to use. The variables live in the blocks of conditionals and loops we write, but they don't cascade into functions we call, because those aren't sub-blocks, but different sections of code entirely. Every variable we've written has a well-defined lifetime of one function.

Being able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.