A short note as I am still stuck in the land of Nanowrimo this month.
I tried a new method of approaching sleep last night: falling asleep while listening to a book on tape. Typically, I can trick myself to bed early, but it’s getting me to shut off my electronic toys that is the problem. So why not try a book on tape? You listen with your eyes closed! What could be better?
I probably shouldn’t have chosen a short fiction work that turned out to be a horror story about a woman haunted by demons in her sleep. I don’t know if listening to a reader hiss the ghostly words “Leave…leave…leaveleaveleaveleave LEAVE!” in your ear is meant to be restful. But I can assure you, it wasn’t a good night’s sleep for me.
#nosuchthingastoomuchcaffeine
TheDustSeason 
Oh my! That doesn’t sound restful at all. Sorry for laughing! ๐
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No. It. Wasn’t. Still creeped out when I think of it.
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You totally won’t think about that tonight as you lay your head down and relax and begin to drift off, and then turn your head on the pillow so that it brushes your ear.
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May you be visited by equally pleasant demons of apocalyptic nightmare in response to your lack of sympathy, Outlier! Now teach me how to put emoticons on WordPress. I’m jealous.
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https://en.support.wordpress.com/smilies/
But you really should ask Yemi. She uses dozens not listed by the WP folk. I can use the unicode emoticons on the Iphone and have SOME work in WP, but haven’t kept track of which.
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That button was already set. Okay, attempt one…>:D
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Damn. It didn’t work. How ’bout this:
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Oops. Ya’ need to put ’em on a new line to guarantee they’ll appear correctly. With that one only, I’ve learned it appears as a plain frowny face unless you start with one blank space. Picky, picky.
I learned a couple of days after writing this that there’s another way to get smilies: In the new editor [[shudder]] there’s a wee emoji button at top left of the text window.
Oh: And you can TRY to use your smartphone’s emojis. WP claims it supports these, but many are not supported, and appear as blank little boxes to readers not on phones.
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