Early Monday Morning.

 It's about 4:00 AM. It's early to say the least. Saturday night I had to cover a shift for a coworker so I ended up sleeping almost 12 Hours yesterday afternoon into this morning. So far it's been productive. I woke up, took a shower, Went and Got a coffee, Picked up deodorant from Walgreens. Came home, Brush my teeth, and wrote out a plan for My Morning / Evening routines going forward. One thing I'm finding is that with the additional of the new medication is just how much it effects me. When I first took it Sunday morning...my mind felt like it had a complete melt down for an incident which took place around 10am. Granted... I had been up all night so I'm sure that had an impact... but never the less, I wasn't able to function correctly for my job. It's just something that I need to be aware of going forward because if i am going to be picking up on-call engagements.... I have to be hyper aware of the side effects. The other thing I noticed about the new medication is just how Aware I felt. When I was inside the gas station getting gas... I felt like I had already drank a couple of coffees even though the one I was purchasing was the first one of the day. Also... my mind is "somewhat" more focused. I wasn't expecting the medication to have an instant effect... and I'm sure what I'm experiencing now is probably just the placebo effect. But once i build it up within my system, I am interested to see what impact it has on my cognitive function. 

I'm surprised by how much energy I have this morning. It could be the over abundance of sleep... Or it could be something else entirely. I have to get a new battery for this laptop. That and a power cord. I've been using a generic USB C charger and unfortunately the battery wont hold a charge anymore. I'm sure I could probably get both from Amazon fairly Cheap... So I'll probably end this now and start looking for one.

I'll write more later if anything interesting happens.

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