Typing While Tired/Tiered?

I’m just wondering if a morning brain dump is a habit I can make happen.

Sometimes, after waking up, I am so tired it seems nearly impossible to make anything happen. And I simply don’t understand that. I just spent hours on end doing nothing but sleeping. I have awoken without any form of artificial waking devices. Clearly it was a body decision to get out of bed. It was not an “imposed” beginning to the day.

And yet, my body clearly thinks that what my body just did—wake up—was a stupid thing.

Right now, my eyes have narrowed to sleepy slits. My back is screaming to lay down. My brain is mushy and wondering why I am continuing to type, to go back and retype words that I missed or spelled incorrectly. And I am desperately trying to drink a blistering hot cappuccino in an attempt to boost my postsomnolent somnolency.

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Example. I just spent thirty second—probably over a minute— with my thumbs hooked into those little nooks on either side of my nasion…the medial canthus?— with my elbows resting on the table. This is my preferred mode of resting while keeping my forehead from slamming embarrassingly onto a table.

It has taken me approximately twenty minutes to write everything that is on this page so far. That seems to calculate out to roughly 20 words per minute. One coherent word every 3 seconds. And that calculation nearly killed me.

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I just got back from ordering an espresso. I don’t know why I hope that will help. I think I drink too much coffee. But it was a nice five-minute break that has hopefully refreshed me and brought some better consciousness to…I just noticed that I misspelled the word “elbow” in a orevious passage—elbow! How does a 50+ year old writer misspell elbow?

This is most decidedly a burbling blog post. If you enjoy reading stream of consciousness, then the “Burbling” tag is for u. That’s right I just used “u” in a non-phone-text environment. It was not ironic, now was it on purpose.

Okay, I’m trying to find ways to monetize my brain/creativity/somnolence. In doing so, I am gestating the idea of Patreon.

I have so many creative interests, though, that I’m having a problem tiering it out.

If you are reading this post, first of all, I’m pleasantly surprised—so thank you!

But I am trying to find a way to break down my tiers on interests, which may not be the way to do it.

For example, I could have a $10 Fantasy RPG Tier, where you get each of the following monthly:

• A greeting card and envelope with one of our graphic class/race images and a blank interior

• A village, hamlet, or homestead map with detailed NPCs—or—5+room/dungeon/tower map—or—encounter module—or—city neighborhood map—or—region/county/country map

• Early views of new graphic designs

I could have a $10 Japanglish Tier with the following perks:

• Tanuki of the month greeting card (ie. January New Year’s Tanuki, April Arbour Day Tanuki)

• Early views of new graphic designs for Japanglish

• Monthly Funky Japan Newsletter

Maybe a $15 GrabBag Tier with the following

• RPG graphic class/race images—or— Tanuki of the month greeting card with blank interior

• Early draft views of video/writing projects

• 10% discount on any AlbertyCreative merchandise

I am interested it what you think about this tiering. Please do comment. I am very interested in hearing from you.