Vertigo

Went to second sleep study Wednesday night, this time I wore positive pressure air mask.
Thursday Midnight: 1st mask + sleeping on back = fail.
2AM: 2nd mask + sleeping on side = success!
Slept until 8:30, awoke exhausted but was WIDE awake in about 10 minutes.
Astonishing sense of jetlag being that awake in the morning. Not normal protocol for me.
2 hours later, intense vertigo. Couldn't walk or move. Went to sleep. As I fell asleep I experienced loud screeching in left ear for split second. Fruitless search for bed parrots. Fell asleep for 1 hour.
Awoke with vertigo, called sleep center. They said "Never heard of such a thing." Escalate to more senior doctor, still "Can't be related to mask. Go to doctor/ER."
6PM, Sue takes me to walk-in clinic. They have no idea, prescribe Dramamine for vertigo.
I take Dramamine, sleep for unknown amount of time, move to living room and sleep there for unknown reason. Lots of nightmares.
Friday AM: Awaken with tingling face and hands, see colorful patterns. Too exhausted for work/driving.
Told employer "Going for full-body wax, big job, overnight stay required on Thursday, need vacation day for recovery." Will need to use sick day - exhaustion, disorientation, mild vertigo, memory loss. Patterns and tingling (hypoxia) subside.
Now writing like Rorschach from Watchmen.
Hope to find better sleep clinic that is familiar with vertigo side-effect, another study with mask.

Innumeracy

$165 million dollars in AIG bonuses is an outrage, no doubt, but let's keep that in perspective.
What about the other $169 BILLION dollars? The media and the government overseers should give that a bit more attention. Here's an 'Outrage Proportion' graph for ya.

That $170 billion dollars could provide $85,000 in expanded unemployment coverage for every one of the two million folks who've lost their jobs since the collapse began.
That's about two years income for the people who have taken the real hit in this crisis.
Once again we see the most basic economic truth in action.
People = Shit

Good time to panic

Rather than waiting for the economic crisis to properly reach out and crush me I have decided to start panicking now.

Alternatives and solutions for a post-economic world:
Crime
Agriculture
Hoarding
Purchasing weapons
Suicide
Migration
Communes

Time to start making choices.