Reprise

in the bleak midwinter ????????

again !
Well ,we didn't get 12 in like Sioux Falls Somewhere
last night. But we start the day at 30 F and go up a smidge

News, we have a stairlift. One flight. The chair blocks 2/3 of the stairway. You kinda swivel to get past. We are not talking ' Indy car ' speed here. However ,the knees are not getting younger or better.
I guess we are staying awhile in this house

I've reported sleep difficulties often quoting Paul Simon's ' I don't expect to sleep through the night '
from Obvious Child.
I'm not alone. I discovered on article on the ' sleep industry ' and if you thought that I meant ' Sleep Country Canada ' and beds - guess what. This is an excerpt from a news article
< Weighted blankets, smartphone apps, diffusers, white noise machines, "smart" beds that moderate the temperature of your mattress — the range of products designed to help you sleep better than a baby is inventive and ever-expanding. >

The list above didn't include a coffee maker for your bedside plus toaster [ correct ? B ] 

Note : be careful when you make joke.

Further reading discloses that naps should be less than 30 min which means no deep REM sleep and you wake easily
OR 90 minutes such that you do get REM sleep and complete a sleep cycle.
Wait for it !
There is ' nappucino ' in which you drink a coffee and nap for the 30 minutes. B/c it takes the caffeine approx 30 minutes to simulate you, then you get the nap and the later burst of get up and go from the coffee

Be careful what you joke about

And it turns out my naps in bed are wrong. Apparently, napping in bed ruins the association of bed w/ sleep at night. I'm supposed to find a quiet dark place ( think cave ) for napping.

BTW - as a sleep aid, there are CD s by let's say Matthew McConaughey to read you to sleep.