Insomnia Blogging VI

It has been amazing. I’ve had a decent amount of sleep in the past couple of weeks. But for the past two nights, no sleep.

One of my usual early morning pasttimes, watching CNN hasn’t been doing it for me. All CNN is covering lately has been the primaries. Sure, picking the President is important and people can’t wait to see President Bush take a hike, but it seems like this campaign started a year ago. These campaigns need to take some time off, give use news junkies a break, something else to get all worked up about. I haven’t seen one mention of CNN’s extreme weather. Or how about the fact that Polaroid is downsizing to 150 employees. This is a company that used to employ 21,000. If you ask me, that’s a news story, the downfall of Polaroid.

I ended up watching the west coast feed of Sportsnet Connected. Still, more talk on the Richard Zednik incident. (For those who don’t know, Richard Zednik is a hockey player who took a skate blade to the neck and lost nearly two litres of blood or half a gallon on the ice.) This is the second time in recent memory of something like this happening in the National Hockey League. I’ve seen both incidents and I’m still amazed that neither player collapsed or freaked out. They both immediately covered up and let the paramedics do their job. It was the quick response by the injured players that saved them from dying right there on the ice. I don’t know what I’d do if I was all-of-a-sudden gushing blood from my neck.