Jimbo Eruptions.

For a man who says he gets only two or three hours of sleep a night, Jimbo looked very relaxed as he tried to answer skeptical reporters' questions of why he made hundreds of text messages to his girlfriend, Kathy Karrasch.

More to the point, why would two people married to others do something as stupid as use a state cell phone for the messaging?

And for somebody who gets so little sleep, he is an extremely fast text messenger:

“You all do texts. It takes like point six seconds to respond to something,” Gibbons said, dismissing a question about whether all that texting — during last year’s legislative session — distracted him from governing the state.

“You must be quick on that thing,” a reporter said. “I mean, 170 messages” in a single day?

“You get used to typing with your thumbs instead of your fingers,” Gibbons replied. At this point, he flexed his thumbs on an imaginary cell phone to demonstrate his BlackBerry proficiency.