I did not sleep very well last night due to a lot of back pain I have been having since receiving a back injury when I had an accident on the way to downtown Denver last week.  Anyone with brains would have seen a doctor by now.  I have not done that, and do not intend to do so.   Yesterday morning my brother called.  That in itself was unusual.  The fact that he was in a very good mood was even more unusual.  He was in the Christmas-like mood, which is a rarity for him.  I am not complaining about that -- more power to him.   He said he was going to get a Christmas tree for me, and he wanted to know what kind I wanted.  This year I am going for an artificial one.  I said that I had a very small fiber-optic tree, and that I would like a larger one in the range of four to six feet tall.  He said he did not know where to find one, and I suggested he look at Lowe's.   I had planned on watching some videos yesterday, but never got around to it.  I tried taking a short nap, but sleep just would not come to me.   Since I could not sleep, I decided to try and clean off my desk.  It would be much easier to have used a shovel.  There are papers piled on top of other papers with no end in sight.  Over the past weeks, I had refused to have other people help me because I did not want anything getting lost or misplaced.  If that was going to happen, I wanted to do it myself, which I did.   I played some online poker (not for real money) and won a bit before losing.  Then I ate a halfway edible dinner before making sure that my PCP did a thorough job of cleaning my apartment.  After that, I watched The Amazing Race on television before going to bed.  I had planned on making one telephone call, but just did not have enough time.   Quotes for Attitude:   “Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.” Elbert Green Hubbard