Thx ChannelTrader,
The thread does seem to relate to my issue, at least in that other people have had Sleep mode not staying asleep (dating back years ago). The suggestions offered did not fix the issue for me.
It's a virus I tell you ... and Microsoft has been a major "Typhoid Mary" spreader of the sickness.
In my opinion the big problem is our acceptance and adoption of a failed digital technology that has not been mastered. The fact that computers don't always operate exactly the same way that they did the last time they were used is telling to me. The fact that they must be turned OFF then turned back ON to correct things that inexplicably go wrong is just one consequence of the good but imperfect systems that are being used to control just about everything today...
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -- George Washington