I've been going to bed early and waking up sleepy. I should recognize the signs by now. Instead, I've blamed it on the weather and the start of daylight savings time (or is it the end of daylight savings time? I can never remember that). I got out of bed this morning, and just couldn't wake up completely. I got to work about 25 minutes early, as I always do.

When I used to work in the main clinic all day, I would use that 25 minutes to set up the front desk. Then I started working in the satellite clinic, and I would set up the main clinic's front desk, wait for a coworker to show up, and then go over to the front desk. Then my supervisor asked me to stop doing that, so then I would go to the main clinic only long enough to hang my coat in my locker before I'd head over to the satellite clinic. This morning, however, there was a staff meeting at eight, followed by a goodbye breakfast for one of my front desk coworkers, who was leaving today, at nine. So, after hanging up my coat, I just hung around the main clinic, not doing anything. It was then that I realized that I still wasn't waking up, and that it was an illness, not the season, causing it.

The staff meeting was extremely short, and was over before 8:45. My coworker was still stuck in traffic somewhere, and hadn't arrived at work, so the breakfast couldn't start. I was feeling rather displaced - there was really no reason for me to start anything at the main clinic, and no reason to start anything at the satellite clinic yet. My supervisor suggested that I go to the satellite clinic, and they would call me when my coworker arrived.

I walked over to the satellite clinic, where the nurse was checking in a patient. I waited for her to finish and log off my computer. Then I logged into my computer and the phone rang. My coworker had arrived. I walked back to the main clinic, had breakfast, and then walked back to the satellite clinic.

As the morning went on, I was feeling worse and worse. I called my supervisor at eleven, to tell her I wanted to go home at noon. I got her voicemail, and left a message.

At noon, I walked back to the main clinic and asked my coworkers where out supervisor was, and learned that she had gone home sick. So, I went home sick, too. When I got home, I emailed Phillip to tell him I was home, then I went to bed.

I woke up some time before Phillip got home, and couldn't get back to sleep. Then, after Phillip got home, I fell sound asleep for what felt like a long time. I got up, thinking it was at least nine o'clock - however, it was only five. I seem to have gotten enough sleep, however.

We found our 400th geocache this weekend. Unlike our previous "century" marks, this one was chosen more by opportunity than by design. Phillip and I went out on Saturday to the University District and Sandpoint. We found three of the four caches we looked for, bringing our total to 392. That DNF was on a cache we'd logged previous DNFs for - both together, and by myself. The cache owner even told me generally where the cache is, but we just can't find it. Sometimes, we just give up on certain geocaches - but I keep thinking of it, wondering where it is.

Yesterday afternoon, we went out caching with aviatrix22. She came over to our apartment and then the three of us drove over to Medina and Bellevue. We logged 10 finds, aviatrix logged 11 (one of hers was the Montlake Library cache, which we'd found previously), and none of us logged any DNFs (although we came close to not finding the last one we looked for). We'd started out with us making a list of caches, and aviatrix making a list, and then agreeing that we'd find as many, or as few, of them as we felt like. At the end of the day, when we stopped into an Applebee's for dinner, we'd found all of the caches on both of our lists, our count was 402, and aviatrix's was 468.

Phillip and I started the day, yesterday, not knowing which geocache was going to be number 400 for us. When we looked at our combined lists, we picked one from aviatrix's list that was close to the downtown Bellevue library, because we like libraries. The cache is named "E.L.M. - Bellevue" and it is our 400th find. (We haven't learned yet what "E.L.M." stands for.)

It was fun, caching with aviatrix22. She's in it for the hunt more than the numbers. (She told us that she's forgotten to officially log several of her finds.) In fact, her stated goal is to cache with other geocachers. Like us, she uses a more "low tech" style of geocaching - writing information about interesting caches on a piece of paper, and then manually entering coordinates into her GPS receiver, rather than automatically downloading all caches in the area into a GPS receiver and/or Palm Pilot.

After geocaching on Saturday, Phillip and I rented the next disc of season 2 of Lost . After geocaching yesterday, we voted.