Christmas

Well, Christmas is ending. I don't want to be back at work.

I had an issue with my sleep schedule over Christmas. It was holidays, and I wasn't as motivated to actually get out of bed. I just wanted to lounge around and do next to nothing. As a result, I slept more than usual, which made me suffer from Sleep Gorge (a phrase coined by PureDoxyk, that I'll willing to steal). She talked about it here. I think her opinions on the matter are very true.

I will definitely confirm that the same has happened to me. It is a tough cycle to break too. You are more tired, thus think you should get more sleep. Sleeping Polyphasically is never an easy task. You have to work to keep your schedule. It is not something to be attempted by the less than motivated. Keeping that motivation can also be a challenge.

Another thing that post from PureDoxyk did was made me excited for her book. I have no idea when it will come out, or how to get it, but be sure I'll pass that information on once it's confirmed. I suppose she needs to finish the book first.

Other brief holiday notes:
- I am the favourite uncle. I gave my eldest neice a Nintendo DS for Christmas. She wouldn't put it down. Take that sisters!
- Rock Band is awesome. Took it long enough to come to Canada. I'm almost glad it did. The download content makes the game way better, for all the random song sets, and options when making your own. I have now downloaded the soundtrack, and am trying to learn all the songs, as I'm the band vocalist, and somewhat pinch guitar player.
- Rock Band on the Projector is super awesome. Cranked surround sound, so the crowd starts singing along behind you. Soo cool!
- Christmas is great! I've already seen a couple friends I haven't seen in months. So nice to be able to catch up with all of them. I have high hopes for the new years season as well.
- Did I mention Rock Band is fun?

But alas, I should probally get something done.

lack of updates

I haven't updated in quite some time. I've been busy.

I had end of term projects, and finals. Those took up some time. everything went reasonably well though. I was a little less happy at my CMPT 260 exam. 214 went well.

Other big things that kept me a little busy was my latest project. I, with the help of the roomies, redid a lot of the basement. Largely so it would fit my new projector! YAY!
SO I now have a 120" screen in my basement, with a new surround sound system, and a 1080p projector shooting at it. It looks amazing. I was really happy with how everything turned out. We built the screen from scratch, with fir 1x2's and some blackout cloth, and some black random stretchy fabric. It looks great. But now I'm pretty broke, so I need to save some money to afford CHristmas presents... Should have maybe set my priorities a little different. No regrets though, you have to see this screen. I'll post pictures when I finally get around to taking some. If you're in town this Christmas, you will have to call / stop by and check it out.

Sleep has been going well. I'm a little under the weather currently, so I'm sleeping a bit more than usual, but not too much. I need to adjust my schedule a bit again now that classes are changing for term 2. Make sure I have all the times lines up right. Shouldn't be too bad. I've done that shift before.

I posed a question to the Polyphasic google groups about subliminal learning during sleeping. I'm curious as to if it works, but I haven't been able to find any good scientific articles on it. I keep getting people who want to sell me cd's. Anyone who reads this know anywhere I can get information on it? I figure since I listen to my ipod for my naps anyway to drown out ambient noise, I could probally set up some sort of sibliminal messages to maybe help me learn Japanese or something. I may experiment a bit with it.

Crazy!

I had my first odd encounter over this blog the other day at school. There's a friend in one of my comp sci courses whom I see very seldom, and haven't really talked to in quite some time. We're working together on a project now. Anyway, we were trying to determine when would be a good time to work on it, and I brought up that I usually have lots of time, because I sleep weird, and he said oh yeah, I've read about that on your blog. Yay! People are stumbling here somehow. His brother apparently found it, and asked if he knew me, since I'm a jazz guy in Saskatoon, and the community here isn't too huge, and somewhat close knit. Started me wondering though. I've seen all my traffic numbers, and they definitely aren't anything special, so I've always just assumed it was largely my family, and a couple close friends, who are trying to keep tabs on me, since I never talk to my family.

Now I'm starting to wonder how many people from Saskatoon who don't know me have read this, or heard about it via some other people. Am I going to start having a reputation as the crazy guy who sleeps weird that some people don't know what I look like? Can I work up to Urban myth status? That has quickly become one of my goals. To become an urban myth. Not sure how I'm going to accomplish it though... Suggestions are welcome.

party

Wow, due to just sheer coincidence, my 200th day of polyphasic sleeping (Which is November 29th) also is the last day of classes for me! So I might have to have a bit of fun that day. It's also (I think) the day after a code release, so I may have a lot of good things to celebrate.

My sleep schedule is getting almost back on schedule now. I do have a sinus infection, from a complication from my wisdom teeth extraction. All these medical related things make me feel more tired, which means I sleep more. However, more is still only about 5 or 6 hours. Immediately after the surgery I had a couple days of a long 8 hour sleep. That was odd. I felt like there was just no time during the day to get anything done.

I also need to move all my sleeping things inside. It's starting to get cooler outside. Below freezing, and it's sure hard to jump out of my bed when after jumping out of bed I can suddenly cut bread with my nipples. I just want to stay huddled in my warm sleeping bag. I'll likely get to that tommorrow, or the day after. I need a good system to move things around. Maybe some good habits about packing up my sleeping bag, and so forth.

Maybe I'll have to fire an email to PureDoxyk to ask her what she does in the winter. I think she lives somewhere where the climate gets a little chilly. With the gas prices too, it's just not economically feasible to run my car to warm it up. I'll let you know what I find out / try.

Ok

Time to get in some better habits over this blog. I still think it's valuable to me, to get some of my notes down somewhere, and just to vent a little. Time for another big update.

PureDoxyk, one of the longest Everyman sleepers I know of, had a good post on her blog today. Talking about essentially don't give advice if you aren't qualified to do so. I think it is a very true complaint, and one I think really plagues Polyphasic sleeping. I'll leave the rest of the discussion to her arguements.

I have now been polyphasic for about 185 days? I still don't like giving out a ton of advice, as I don't think my experience is really going to be a representation of everyones experience. We all sleep differently, we all live differently, and just because something works for me, doesn't mean it works for everyman (what a bad pun).

So lately my schedule has been a mess. I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday, after writting my last midterm. Not a good day, although I did get 100% on that midterm, so I can't complain too much. I think that was my widsom teeth's last shot, trying to prove that they actual did something. Back to crappy 50%'s from here on out, without those teeth. I've been really weak on my schedule enforcement, knowing that I should be a little messed up due to the drugs, and so on and so forth, but I think I'm going to have to crack down right away here. Yesterday for instance, I woke up at 5, like normal, after a 4.5 hour core, which is a little long, had a 30 min nap around 9, like normal, was exhausted at my class, so I had a 1.5 hour nap from 1-2:30, got back to work, and went to bed around 9:30, and slept until 5. I woke up once or twice, but I didn't have any painkillers nearby, so I went back to sleep to try and get rid of the pain.

I'll likely let this crappy schedule keep up for the rest of the week, and try to push everything back to my normal come the weekend. Hopefully by then I'm more healed up, and in less pain. I might have to resort to a bit of caffiene to help with that too.

SO back to my plans for this blog. One of the reasons I don't post very often is I feel like there's nothing interesting to post about. By now, I have enough logs of my sleeping stuff to amuse some people. There's a 100 day summary too for people who don't want to read too far back. Now's it's just part of a normal routine. I'll have to figure something out.

Day 164, Major overdue update

I am so bad at checking / updating this blog.
It's largely because I feel like my liife is so normal and uneventful now. I'm approaching the 1/2 a year mark of my polyphasic sleeping. I'm still enjoying it. I'm finding I'm wasting a lot more of my extra hours lately, because I just am running out of things I want to do. That said, I am still working 40 hours a week, and taking 2 university courses, and playing about a gig a week with various musical groups, and I've starteed playing hockey about twice a week. So I guess considering how busy I'm keeping myself, I'm doing quite well.
I'm finding now that I have fallen into a somewhat variable pattern. I NEED my naps at 9am, and 2:30pm. I get extremely tired like 5 minutes before those. My evening nap is a little more variable. Sometime I'm not tired at all, and I skip it, and sleep from 12:30 to 5, and sometime I take it and sleep 2-5. Depends what else I need to get done, and what's going on around the house. The nice thing is I can seem to flip between those two schedules without any bad effects.
I'm also finding on some weekends, I like to "sleep in". I essentially just take an extra 30 minute nap whenever I feel like it, or extend a nap by an hour or so. I find usually it's my 9 am nap, as I've been up for awhile already, and not working, and thus somewhat getting bored of myself around the house. It's as much to kill time until my roomies are up to entertain me as it is for resting purposes.
I still very seldom feel tired. I still think I'm getting more productive hours in a day. I'm still loving it.
And that's another rare, major update.

I have a blog!

and I realy suck at updating it.
It's been exactly 2 weeks now. I apologize.
Lately I've been busy though. It's hard to work for 40 hours a week, while attending two classes. Now that labs and assignments have started, I'm sinking a lot of time there too. Add my required weekly tv shows (Survivor, Beauty and the Geek, Heroes, the Office, My Name is Earl, Naruto) and I don't have a ton of time, even with my crazy sleep schedule.
I've also felt a little under the weather for the last week and a bit. I've been trying to get a bit more sleep than usual to help recover from that. There's been a bunch of bugs going around work though, so I'm still sitting in better shape than a lot of my co-workers. As a result though my core sleep is closer to 4.5 hours most nights now. Which kind of sucks, but I'm still down to about 5.5 hours of sleep a day, which does give me some more time than a normal sleep schedule. Hopefully I feel back up to 100% soon, and can drop back down to a 3 hour core.

New Radiohead album came out today. I've been enjoying it. And the Orangebox came out, which is a package deal of like 5 super awesome games. So I'll have to find some time to play through those... May be challenging.

Alas though, I need to get to work. I have to set up a test to run for a week straight, and need to confirm a feature works by the end of the day today. Sigh.

Day 136

Ugh, I suck at updating.
One of my favourite webcomics did a strip on odd sleeping habits. It's not my sleep schedule, but suggests one that may work for some people who like trying to mess with their sleep schedule. It's Here.
Nothing really too big to report. I've been busy lately with school assignments, and work. I don't know how I used to do this much stuff, and have time for everything, when I slept normally. Even with the couple extra hours a day, I'm not getting everything accomplished I want to.
Sleep-wise, I've been finding some evening I just can't get away for my 8:30ish nap. I had a dinner on Monday that I didn't get home from until close to 10, and last night I didn't have time to catch a nap either. I was rreasonably tired, just an opportunity never presented itself. I've been dealing with those days by crashing around 12:30, and sleeping until 5, instead of 2am. It seems to be working ok, but I'm losing some of my awake active time. For the record though, any extension of my core seems to need to be in bunches of 90 minutes. Anything else just makes me tired. Those results are close to what some others have found too.
But I should get to work, I have some large bugs I'd like to fix here before anyone comes into the office. One of the best times of the day to accomplish things.

Day 127

So I had a rough weekend.
My nap that happens at 8:30pmish now is bad. i'm finding when I eat late, which is most of the time, I'm eating just before that nap, which isn't very good. It also makes me sleep. It's really hard to get up from that nap, and this weekend I laid down for that nap twice, and woke up an hour later, almost 10 ish, which really throws off a lot of my weekend plans.
I'm going to have to experiment this week to see how I can tweak things to still work with school, but make that evening nap a little easier. Maybe it's as easy as trying to nap before eating. That's likely my first change. that will likely move the nap a little earlier too, closer to 5 or 6.

Currently discussing a ski trip with Kyro from GnoSchitt, I haven't travelled with him before, and he hasn't worked with me since I started this odd sleep schedule. I wonder if he's aware of what he might be getting into by thinking about travelling with me. I hope wherever we end up staying has some sort of all night lounge? or at least a space I can sit and play DS without having to worry about waking him up. Should be fun though.

Day 121

Hello!
So this morning, in about 20 minutes time, I'll be doing my interview on CBC radio. To anticipate that traffic boost, I would just like to say welcome. If you are interested in learning about my first 100 days, read this. That link is also present on my sidebar, under polyphasic links, so that once this post gets buried a bit more, you can still easily find my first 100 day summary. I also recommend most of those links for anyone wanting to do more research on Polyphasic sleeping. I do need to update it, as I think some of my links are going to people who have given up on their attempts. Maybe those are still valuable resources too, I'm not sure.

As per usual, if there are any questions, or anything, feel free to leave a comment, or email me, at chkurz (at) gmail (dot) com.

Day 120

Hurray! 120 days of my odd sleep schedule.

I was contacted today by CBC news. Apparently they try to match some of the stories of the Morning Show, and I might be doing a TV spot Tuesday night, on the 6pm news. I'll let you know tom morrow if that's happening or not. We still need to work out some times to actually do it. Hopefully I can slot it in before returning to work after class.

Of course it won't be as good as the awesome video the Ryan made to start this whole media parade. I'm glad people find my life interesting enough to talk to me. Maybe I should start a class or something. "How to Change to Polyphasic Sleeping" or "Step One in Becoming a Vampire: Turning Nocturnal". I think the only class I could stand teaching is one where I could sleep for 20 minutes during it, as a teacher, and have that be expected. Maybe I'll pitch that to the university.

On a sleeping note: Everything is still great. I felt a little under the weather on the weekend, and as a result, have one or two naps that went a little longer. I'm feeling much better now though, so hopefully it was just a very short lived illness. I'm a little behind on my walks. I haven't had a good long walk in almost a week now. So tonight, I'ma walking baby!

Also, I would just like to say, Roomie R has proven yet again that we can't leave him alone with anything that cooks without supervision. He microwaved some hot dogs into a lot of black smoke, a horrible horrible lingering smell, and two chunks of charcoal. I didn't think a microwave could make charcoal like that. I was proven wrong. On a side note, our new microwave is pretty nice, and it has a dial, so he can't screw up anymore. Never expected to have to make our house him-proof.

Radio coverage

So I just got off the phone with the associate producer for CBC radio's morning show with Sheila Coles. They are interested in interviewing me on the morning show, so if you're interested in hearing me talk about polyphasic sleeping, tune into CBC radio one, Tuesday morning, around 7:45 am. I do believe they have a web stream too, for anyone who is located further away.

My adaptation for school has been going reasonably well. I missed a nap before classes yesterday, just due to a meeting dragging on a bit, and uncertainty when buses run and such. I had to resort to a little caffeine. No ill effects from that though. It was a little surprising how much that woke me up though. Since I have so little caffiene now, it hits me quicker and harder it seems when I do have it.

Day 116

Today is my first actual day of classes. I'm here at work, early, getting some stuff done, so I can be gone through most of the core part of the day. I'm somewhat excited. My adjustments to my sleep schedule seem to be going very well. I'm now somewhat adjusted to 2-5am core, with naps around 9am, 2:30pm and 9pm. I might move my core back another hour yet. Haven't decided.

So this video I had made about my sleeping for the Edmonton Journal seems to be making me more popular. The traffic here on my blog has increased. It's not a huge jump (well it was the day the video went live), but it is noticable. The more apparent difference though is just recpetion from the media. I've got a preliminary meting with a program director from CBC radio for an interview. We'll see how that pans out, and there is a journalist from Ontario who is also expressing interest in an interview. As per usual, I'll keep you updated with how those pan out. I knew when I started this I was reasonably unique, but I was not expecting as many people to show interest in it as they have. I'm glad that people find it interesting.

But I should get to work. Stay tuned for the next update.

plug

I thought I would try to help out a little here.

My grandmother, who is 92 now, is participating in the Terry Fox Fundraiser for Cancer. This is her 14th year walking for cancer, she thinks. She has been the oldest participant for the last 4 years, again, she thinks. She has also lost 2 sister, a brother, a brother-in-law, and her husband, my grandfather, to cancer. One of my cousins has set up a online based donation form, as our family is rather large, and spread out. It's located Here. If you are interested in donating, my whole family would appreciate it. Her goal is a very reasonable $500, so I'd like to see that get blown out of the water.

Back to regularly scheduled blogging,
It's just after lunch, and I am tired. I have definitely not made the adjustment to my new schedule yet. I did get to finish a whole bunch of errands on campus today. My nap around 9am went great too, I had a good nap. Hopefully I crash real good for my 2:30 nap too, as that will help a lot for adjusting my schedule.

But I should get back to work, thanks for your time.

School is Starting

I spent the weekend adjusting my schedule, as I have classes starting on Thursday, and my previous schedule was not going to work with my new time constraints. I have revised my schedule to work. I've started adjusting to it, but I'm not quite there yet. Hopefully come Thursday, I'll be fully adjusted. I now sleep a core sleep from 2am to 5am, with my 3 naps at 9am, 2:30 pm, and 9pm. At least that's the plan. The only nap that can really change around at all is the 9pm one. Everything else I'm pretty stuck with due to the timing of my classes, and what I'll have to do to get some hours in at work.
But short post. I have too many things I need to get done before work here, and I'm hoping to get to work early too.

Welcome, and day 110

Welcome everyone who is coming to visit due to the coverage I have gotten in teh Edmonton Journal. For those who aren't here from there, Here is a link to the story.

I posted my summary of my first 100 days yesterday, so I recommend reading that if your interested. Also Check out some of the links on the sidebar, I recommend the Google Group and PureDoxyk's Blog. When I last read it Wikipedia also had a decent article on it.

Hopefully you find this informative. Please feel free to comment here or email me (chkurz (at) gmail (dot) com) with any questions. I'll try to answer all of them.

Summary

I have finished it. (And posted here a lot more regularly in the process. hopefully this is something I can keep up). So here's a long post with my Summary to date.

I started May 14th. I began with a normal night of sleep, then took a nap at noon, and 5pm. The goal at this time was a core from 4am to 7am, with naps at noon, 5 and 11pm. I did not start napping at 11pm until day 3. Around day 3 was when I started doing more productive things in the night as well, like cleaning, making buns, and some light reading.

The first discovery I made was I needed a white noise track. Due to my place of employment being based at the airport, I needed something to drown out the planes. It also would prove to be exceptionally useful in maintaining consistent nap lengths, and has since helped me nap in many different locations.

I found out on day 3 that I was already reliant on my naps. I tried to drive home before a nap, and ended up feeling very tired during the drive, and it was potentially unsafe. Thus it is not recommended you drive during this period, unless you have woken up recently.

I was already close to the schedule I wanted by day 6. My core period at that time was about 3.5 hours That was about it. I had gradually reduced my core sleep throughout the week. having my naps, somewhat forced, then staying up as late as I can before crashing for my core. I always woke up from my core at 7am. On day 7 I tried sleeping just the 3 hours at night, and I was not quite ready yet. Day 7 was also when I started flexing my naps a little.
I was able to flex my noon nap by 1.5 hours, without any bad effects. I was quite tired by the 5pm nap.

On day 10 I had some complications with my cd player dying on me. Without the white noise cd my naps weren't very good. this was a slight setback. I recommend ensuring you have enough power to get you through the day, and carry extra batteries. Since I have gotten an Ipod, this is less of a concern, but do moniter battery life, and try to keep it high enough to last a full nap or 2.

Day 13 was the start of a busy weekend. I tried skipping a nap while I was out, to disasterous results. At a house party the next night, I caught my naps, which helped, but the liquor in my system made me oversleep. I've since discovered anything more than a drink or 2 will cause me to tend to oversleep.

On day 16 I had a rough adjustment period. This was when I had started cutting caffiene from my diet, which I had been using to try and help my sleep cycle change. For adaptation, caffiene helped me wake up after a nap, or core, but in the long term I recommend it be cut. Try a hot glass of water to wake you up, or really ice cold. Around day 16 is also where I speculated that during adaptation at least, the nap location is likely important that it remain consistent. Lately (post 100 days) I can nap anywhere, on my vacation I slept in some irregular locations, but during adapatation I would recommend trying to be consistent in your nap location. While adapting the less that changes the better, so your body just has the odd hours to get accustomed to.

I got sick around day 21. I think it was something I ate. I slept a lot more during that period to try to help me recover. I discussed maybe adding a reset day (which I never did).

Day 22 I skipped a noon nap, and it wasn't overly deterimental. I just felt more tired closer to my 5pm nap. I've since stopped skipping naps, and force myself to nap no matter how late it is. My body often will still get tired for the next nap, and I found that to work better than just flat skipping a nap.

On day 29 I started trying a more consistent wake up routine, as I still found that to be difficult. I was too physically active in it though, as I started getting too stiff. I also had some really good naps at that time.

Around day 44 I became extremely busy and was forced to miss nap, move nap times, and other bad things. I ended the week feeling extremely tired, but made it. It took me a day or so to get back to a regular routine after a messy week.

Day 53 temperature really became an issue. We had a heat wave, which made sleeping in my car difficult. I now always ensure I park in the shade for as much of the day as possible, which usually means moving my car after my noon nap. I also recommend windows open to get a breeze, maybe a fan to help with that. I also use ice packs on the floor of my car to try and smooth the temperature curve. It's helps but not drastically.

On day 57 I overslept my 11pm nap, but overslept it to exactly 3 hours. This is when I first tried a nap at 6:30 am, and a core 11pm-2am. This felt great and would end up being my normal sleep schedule. My body just liked it better. Finding those times when your body actually wants / needs to sleep in interesting. I have no hints to help you find them, just if you feel groggy after a nap consistently, to maybe try shifting it around a bit.
Day 64 I tried sleeping without an alarm. My body no longer lets me sleep more than 4 hours without the aid of Alcohol. It also reinforced the 11pm core, change, as that's what my body naturally tried to do. Making that change to my sleep schedule was exceptionally easy.

Around day 80 was I not getting as much accomplished at nights as I wanted to, and as a result started feeling like I might as well sleep. I wasn't tired, I didn't need the sleep, my body just saw it as a reasonable thing to do to kill the bored time. Thus I recommend you try to stay on task, and keep yourself working on something at nights. Those are the toughest times to stay awake, and distractions to prevent you from sleeping are vital.

I had a vaction around day 105. During the vacation, to closer match the sleep schedule of the people I was staying with, I cut my noon nap, and slept longer at night. It worked surprisingly well for the first part of my trip. The Seattle part I was actually able to find corners to crash around noon, so I started doing that again. Still kept a longer core. I didn't feel like I needed it, but it was to not disturb the people I was sharing a room with. It worked quite well.

And that Summarizes some of the big point of my first 100 days of the Everyman Schedule. Hopefully that has been a useful, enlightening read. Any questions or comments, please contact me at chkurz (at) gmail (dot) com.

Day 108

Just so you all know, I had every intention of making my polyphasic experience summary last night, but I started doing some laundry, which I really needed to do after my vacation, then I figured I'd watch one episode of Death Note. A MAJOR plot twist happened, and I ended up watching more than 1 episode. That show is just too good. Hopefully I'll get something created tonight.

End of Vacation

My Vacation is over. I am back in S'toon, and heading back to work.
My sleep schedule got a little out of whack for the weekend, Hopefully I can correct it back to normal without too much effort. I have been missing my noon nap, although I have been very good with my supper nap, even though it moved a bit. I might take this chance to readjust my schedule to be more accommodating of my school schedule, which I will need to start following by next week. I guess I'll sit down today and do the math to figure out what good sleep times are. I re-recorded the audio for the video story my friend is doing. I'll be working on a summary version of this blog very shortly in anticipation of that video coming out. I'll let you guys read it once it's done. I might end up being a little more sleep related too, as a result.

I had a great vacation. PAX is always a lot of fun, and this year was no exception. I bought some T-Shirts, met a bunch of people. Got to see some games that aren't coming out for awhile. Nothing quite like last year though. Last year had games that are just coming out now, but almost everything I saw is due out in the next couple months. Still really excited for a lot of them though. Should be a bunch of good You Tube videos of the concerts I went to there, and hopefully some footage of some of the panels and such. I'll try to find some and link them later.

Not excited to go back to work. I have to move my desk today, back out into the rest of the world. there goes my nice little private room. but now maybe I'll be in the loop. I should pick up some better headphones though, as now I won't be able to use my speakers.
Well, off to the shower.

Vancouver

Well, I'm currently i Vancouvr, and having a great time. It's been great to see some people I haven't seen in quite awhile. Plus this city is very pretty. Went out and wandered around vancouver all day yesterday, and covered a ton of ground. My feet are a little sore yet today for all the walking we did. I was totally worth it though. Wnt for dinner with 3 fiends and had some very tasty sushi, n dgot to catch up on a lot of their lives. It's been prety wicked.

When I was in Edmonton on Tuesday, I recorded my narration for the video that is being made. They had some very low qualitymics before, so now that they have something better, we redid the audio. That video is coming along, and I'm excited for it to come out. I do however, need to go through this blog, and make my summary page. I'm expecting a bit more traffic to flood in once the video goes live, as we do mention he blog address. I'll be makin that summary a very high priority probally monday or tuesday, when I'm back from my vacation. I'm looking forward to making it, because it will force me to go back through all the archives and remember where it all began. Should be a good exercise, and remind me of how far I've come, and ow much has changed.

But we're heading ou for breakfast pretty quick here. I'll post again later, hopefully.

Day 99

wow. 99 days of polyphasic sleeping. Neato!
So today is my 1 day work week before my holidays. Makes me very very excited. Do some training today to make sure the office doesn't fall apart while I'm gone. Then I might play some Multiplayer Tower defense online, as I got accepted into the beta for it. Those who don't know, I like tower defense. Check out the casual collective for the best version out there, and the multiplayer version. You need an invite to play, so let me know if you want one. I might upgrade my account type come the beginning of next month, after PAX.

Which is coming up. I am so very excited. I'm currently planning to do laundry, and pack tonight, and hit the road early tommorrow. I hope to hit Edmonton in time for lunch, then visit C at work, and wander around Edmonton. Massage at 5:15 or so, and then dinner with a bunch of friends. Should be a good day. Then I get to spend a couple days in Vancouver! Yay! Visit one of my good friends there. Enjoy the city. Hopefully it's raining less there than here. Then on to PAX, which will be a ton of fun. I'm hoping to place reasonably well in the DS tournament. They are doing a pretty cool 1v1 all weekend "distributed" tournament. You register for it, and you get 2 buttons, then you can play ANY DS game with anyone with a button. The two people just decided on rules, and play. Winner gets to take the other persons button. I'm hoping I can convince a lot of people to play Tetris against me, 1v1. Hopefully that goes well, and I can diversify, and start risking my now large stash of buttons playing like Jump Ultimate stars, or so Ouendan!

But I must get to work. I'll try to make some posts here throughout the week, and PAX summaries, but no promises. Check out like 1up's coverage. I'll try to get in some of their pictures =)

Day 92

wow. 92 days into my sleep schedule. That's pretty great. I still love it.
Work trip ended up being long. I was stuck away from home for pretty much a full week. It also was hard on my sleep schedule, as I had very little to amuse me at night. Thu I'll admit, I went a little lenient and slept more than usual (like a long 4.5 hours a night! plus naps still!) but as soon as I got home, I ended up cheating a bit more, but those were liquor induced. But for today, with work, back on track, going great. I got sucked into an extra episode of Death Note, which made my morning nap a little later (didn't hit the sack until abuot 6:50 or so...) but I feel great today.

Getting pretty excited for my vacation coming up. Decided today that a massage would be a kick ass way to start it, and talked to my world famous massage therapist (edit: sorry for the previously used term, which is apparently bad) friend (well, famous in my word anyway) and she had the perfect opening for me. Hopefully my boss is ok with the slight change in plan to accomidate that. It'll be such an awesome week. I'll be writing about it when I get a chance, but I don't know how often that will be... It will be an expensive week though. Good thing the Dollar is doing so well, makes the Seattle portion of the holiday good, but I'm still anticipating spending a reasonable amount of cash... That's what holidays are for though! I can't spend too much though, as there is like a billion games i need to buy in the next couple months.

So after my post about tetris, it got me missing that game, so I ended up playing a fair bit of it while travelling. I still have most of my touch. first couple rounds were rusty, couldn't pass the level 16 stack 5 mode. But about 5 or 6 loses, I remembered how to play. I also suck at that catch mode. I don't do making big squares, I make lines! SO hopefully now that I've practiced a bit again, there will be a Tetris tournament at PAX. I didn't do that bad last year, but I think I could do better. I had a poor strat for the setup. setting up the triple Tetris from the get go jsut doesn't work when items are involved. Also I might enter the Guitar Hero Tournaments. I don't think I'll win, as I'm not as good or hard core as some, but I finally finished Expert, so I feel like I won't be the worst there (especially if Roomie N enters, ZING!) There's team tournament too, so I might have to ask Roomie R and train a little this weekend.

Other Part of Pax I'm really excited for, is dragging other friends along! I'm working on convincing a friend from Vancouver to come, and some of the Georgian's are coming. (which reminds me, I should call and confirm numbers with them) Hopefully we haven't out grown 2 hotel rooms yet...

But I should get back to work. Another post in the future!

Long Weekend

So I'm spending my long weekend out of town, working. Which somewhat sucks. At least I have some friends where I'm heading, and can hopefully have some time to visit with them.

This will be my first business trip since I've changed my sleeping habits. It makes me a little nervous. I hope our customers are understanding when I have to take a nap break throughout the day. I'm also worried because since I'll not be home, I won't have access to a lot of the stuff I normally do to stay up at night. So hopefully I can find something in the hotel to keep me busy, or read or something. The other catch is I'm going with a co-worker, who doens't really know anyone in Edmonton. So I need to keep a somewhat normal eating and sleep schedule plan with the customer. It shall be interesting. Also likely good practice for my trip to the Penny Arcade Expo at the end of the month. PAX will be harder, because I'll be sharing a hotel room with other people who are hibernating.

Other odd part about this business trip, I'm the senior going, which means I have to pay for almost everything, which sucks. I of course will get reimbursed, but I can technically approve my co-workers expenses. Of course, I'll get in trouble if I approve anything bad, like beer, but still. I might have to abuse that a little, just for fun.

Well, I should probally make sure I have everything ready to go.

day 80

Man o Man, I suck at regular updating. I am soo sorry to both of my readers who are still reading.

I've been working quite hard lateely. I spent a lot of last week working overtime trying to get one of my devices finished. Then this week, not as bad during the week, but I'm spending my entire long weekend out at a customers location. My holiday at the end of the month couldn't come soon enough.

That said, it's been a huge headache lately too. My flights are getting jerked around, and the people I booked through, CheapTickets, absolutely suck. My flight got changed by the airline, so I called them to get it changed back to an evening departure. I spent about an hour and a bit on that call. I was told it was fixed, and I'd get a confirmation email shortly. I never got a confirmation email, so I called them again, and they told me they couldn't even check the status of those flights anymore. Awesome. SO I had to call Air Canada directly, and talk to them, who then informed me that my flights had not been changed to the evening at all. Thus CheapTickets actually did absolutely nothing. So I paid the surcharge, and got the Air Canada rep to transfer my booking to Air Canada directly, and change my flight times to the ones I wanted. Now I'm filing a complaint against Cheap Tickets, and I'm going to fight to get my $25 surcharge back. It's gotten me very concerned about the rest of the trip, so now I'm checking everything, and making sure all my shit is confirmed correctly.

Sleeping has been going well. There's been some days where I just haven't been motivated to do anything in the evening (between like 4am and 6 am) so I've been reading, and sometimes if I'm reading in my room, I get really sleepy again. Not tired, just sleepy. it's an odd feeling. I don't feel like I need the sleep.

But I should get to work. I'll post again sometime this month =)

Day 73

Been a busy week. I put in about 8 hours of work on Sunday, and 15 or so Monday, and 11 or 12 yesterday, so I'm getting a little worked out. The nice part of it all, is my house doesn't have air conditioning, but work does, so I've been able to spend most of the hot snap in comfort. We hit a record breaking 37 degrees C (like 100 Fish) on Monday, I think it was. I didn't sleep well that night, as my room was just too bloody hot. My 2 roomies had already called the two places you can sleep in the basement though, which sucked, as it also meant I couldn't do anything in the basement while I was up. Not like I've really wanted to, Spending like 18 hours a day on a PC is probally not too good. So I've been reading a lot. Working through Dracula, and The Gospel of the Flying Spagetti Monster. I think I'll have both finished byt the weekend, or shortly into the weekend.

I finally got to talk about Harry potter with someone, between work, and everything. I have a conversation via Facebook with a cousin who had finished it, and Roomie N finally finished the book. Only took him 3 days, which for him is pretty impressive. He's a pretty slow, methodical guy. I always find it interesting to compare our play styles in various puzzle games. I think that really shows a character. His favourite puzzle game ever is Money Idol Exchanger, which is good, but takes a lot of thought. He's good at it too. I'm more of a max speed drop tetris player. it's alll about fast reflexes and instinctive placing. No time to regret a decision either, you just have to work it into the grand scheme. I'm not super hardcore like some tetris folk, but I know all my T-spins and some of the actual terminology, and have rule preferences. (I like Naive Gravity, even though it makes it impossible to play indefinitely) Also Easy Spin is key. you gotta have some play once it hits the ground, or things just aren't fair. Especially when you get to the fun speeds where peices just start on the bottom.

That's a lot of talk about Tetris. I'm sure most of you don't care. Let's just summarize by saying I like Tetris. And I was robbed at the last tournament I played in. Ok, a bit more tetris talk.... I had 3 tetris lined up, and 1 I peice in my storage (it was tetris DS) Then I got hit with 3 (THREE) banana's withing about 2 seconds! 3! so that left me with a insane mess to work out of, and I got rid of about half of the mess before 2 other players made tetrises and sent me 8 lines of garbage. then I was hooped. Maybe this year at PAX I'll be able to place a little better. (Hoping there is another tournament)

Ok ENough Tetris! Actually, that's close to my blogging time quota. I need to get some work done now....

SO do you prefer these blogs where I talk for a long time about 1 specific thing that no one is really interested in, but me, or no posts at all? hmmm. I'm sure not going to keep any sort of readership for very long.

Day 70!

I'm finally on day 70. wow. I've been doing this for a long time.
My adjustment to a 12-3 core instead on a morning core seems to have gone quite well. I think it works better for me. Nothing else really eventful in my sleeping habits. People who are looking for info on that are likely not even reading my blog anymore. It just seems so natural to me now, that I don't even really think about it.

Harry Potter came out Friday night at midnight. I got my copy, and home by about 1am. Took my core sleep. Then started reading. I should have likely gone into work to get a bit done, as I have a big deadline on Wednesday... but Harry Potter!

So I read fast normally, but I just couldn't put the book down. It was pretty good. I did manage to put it down for my required naps, at 7ish and noon. I didn't sleep very well though, as I was worked up over the book. I finished it around 3:30. I thought it was pretty good. Very action packed. It's somewhat frustrating now, as I want to talk about the book with someone, but I don't know anyone else who has finished the book yet. Curses.

I guess now I'll get around to finishing Dracula. And I did pick up the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, so I'm looking forward to reading that. I really should finish the God Delusion too.

I have to register for some classes pretty quick too. I should make up a list of the classes I'm taking and a schedule, and submit it to my boss. Let him see what I'm intending... I really hope trying to work full time, and take 3 classes (Which is technically full time student) doesn't screw me over. It'll be a good thing I don't sleep much...

Day 66

SO my adjustment of change the core sleep from about 12-3 is working quite well. I think my body likes that time a little better. we'll see how I hold up over the weekend, as that will be a little harder to sleep those hours away.

I'm a little sad I had to change my sleep imes. I quite liked heading to bed as the sun was coming up. It made me feel real vampire-like. Now I'm sleeping away some of the darkest, quietest part of the night. Although it's also kind of nice to not have to try to fall asleep to the squacking of many many birds.

Looking to be super busy at work for the next stretch here, as in I might start coming in very very early. It's somewhat interesting that I can think about putting in 12 hour work days, but still plan on having a couple hours every evening to hang out with my roommates, or relax, or whatever. Sure helps keep the sanity up.

Day 64

Epp. Almost a week since my last post? I'm bad!

This weekend was hard. I've been trying to sleep without an alarm to see how well I've adapted, and how my body is responsding ot the new sleep schedule. It has been very interesting. I have found out a great deal about my sleep.
I can no longer sleep for more than about 4 hours straight. Going to bed, with no alarms, or anything at MOST gives me 4 hours sleep. I also found out, with my body left to it's own schedule creation, that it prefers my 11pm nap to be my core. I spent the weekend using minimal alarms, and just going to sleep when I was tired, and I ended up closer to a 12-3 core, with naps around 6:30, noon, and 5:30 ish. I think I will try to follow a schedule more like that for the next week.

Going to be a busy week at work, so not too sure if I'll get a chance to update much. So I know I suck, but patience!

Day 59!

Yay for being allow to make titles again.

Last night, I over slept on my 11pm nap again. I sleep about 3 hours instead of the 25 minutes I'm supposed to. So again, like last time that happened, I just treated it like my core, and took a nap around 6:30 or 7 or so. Maybe my body is trying to tell me that my core sleep should be around there, and I should just nap before work. I might try to do that. The catch will be on weekends, as I like staying up past 11 then, as others are too.

I wonder if I could train my body to follow a weekly schedule. Weekdays core from 11-2, and weekends core from 4-7. Or maybe I should split it into two 1.5 hour naps. Like 11pm-12:30, and 5:30 to 7. I may experiment a little.

That said, I am now accustomed to the point where I can experiment like that. It's great.

Hmm for some reason it seems Blogger doesn't want me to enter a title...

I'm on day 57. Today I feel great, although very stiff. I was expecting to be a little more our of whack, since I had a odd weekend. On Friday Night / Saturday morning, I made a large change to my schedule. When I laid down for my 11pm nap, I ended up not waking up until about 2 ish. My headphones fell off (Which won't happen anymore, since I bought a new IPod!) I was mad I overslept, but then I thought I'd turn it into an experiment. My oversleep resulted in a sleep period that was the same length as my core usually is. So I just used it as my core, and took a nap at 6:30, so I'd wake up at 7 like I usually do. It worked surprisingly well. My Saturday was like a normal day. It's good to know that if I really need to, I can switch a nap and my core reasonably easily.

Sunday Morning I was out paint balling, which is why I'm so stiff. 3 hours of crouching really exhausts the legs. It was a ton of fun though. I picked up a couple reasonable welts, and I thing I pulled my knee. However due to the timing of paintball, I didn't get to my noon nap until about 2 or so. Which is a lot later than usual. That nap went fine, but I was still exhausted for the rest of the day. Not sure how much of that was from paintball, and how much was from the very late nap. I was able to get on schedule reasonably quickly though. I did cheat a little and slept for closer to 45 minutes at my 5 nap.

Yet everything is good today. 11pm nap was great, core sleep went well, and total I feel as energized as usual. I think it's a sign that my body is quite accustomed to this new sleep schedule. I can make large changes occasionally, and bounce back. Although for the last hour of paintball, I was likely an easy target, as I was a little drowsy, although I was an easy target most of the game...

In other news, I had a BBQ at my sisters place for her birthday this Saturday, and I think my family is running out of sleeping jokes to poke fun at me with. I am still noticing that due to my different sleep schedule, everyone default "insult" is always about me sleeping, as if I am asleep all the time, or should be. I find this odd as I sleep less than all the people making those comments. I just find it interesting as an interpretation of how society reacts to behaviours outside the norm (read as crazy).

Oh and as an Editted Addendum:
The hot snap is over. High today is a perfect 19 C, with overcast skies. Great weather to sleep in my car. I am very excited as the balmy mid 30's temperatures were very difficult.

Oversleep

I overslept this morning, by a good hour. Which sucks. Things have been going great, I have no idea where this oversleep came from. Maybe I need to start scheduling a "reset" day every month or so, where I just sleep the day away? I've heard of some people needing to do that, although I'd really rather not. Maybe it's just the freaking hot temperature.

Day 53

Sleeping is hard. It is too hot! We don't have air conditioning, and everything is just broiling. It is hurting my schedule somewhat. So I'm considering not using my bedroom. It's on the top floor of our house, which is the hottest. I might sleep in the basement on a couch instead. My alarm clock runs on batteries, so it's easy to move, and given when I sleep, I don't think my roomies would even notice.

I need to by some screens for my car, desperately. For my noon nap, it's not too bad, as I can park in the shade all morning, but come the 5 pm nap, My car is an oven. I have set up a thermometer / clock thing I got from a client in my car, just for a clock to see without turning the car on, and the temperature. When it sits in the sun, so slightly skewed, I've been trying to sleep in temperatures over 50 degrees C. Usually when it's in the shady parts of my car it's still registering close to 30 degrees. And we are just starting an even hotter snap (It's supposed to be +36 tomorrow!)

So the experiment I'm trying today is following: I froze a 4 liter milk jug full of water, so it's a reasonably large chunk of ice. I pulled it out of the deep freeze before work, and it has been sitting in my car all morning. When I go out to nap in 20 minutes, I'll see how much it's melted, and hopefully it'll help keep my car at a more reasonable temperature. I'm fairly optimistic. Except that I'm realizing I left it on the passengers seat, so I might be sleeping in a bit of a puddle... Opps.

I am extremely angry at the Canoe Club in town. I showed up for my Kayaking lesson Monday night, and met the other 4 people registered for the class, but the instructor never showed up. I haven't had a chance to talk to Mark, the coordinator yet, but I'm a little irate. Also, none of us could get the doors open either. They just put a new lock on the door, but it seems to be jammed, or somethings broke. Hopefully I can get a hold of Mark tonight to ask about rescheduling, and the door.

So I've been hunting for some contacts of polyphasic sleepers in Alberta. I can't find any. Why doesn't anyone in that province sleep funny? If you're an Albertan, and a polyphasic sleep, please let me know. I need some contacts there.

I think I'm starting to get more and more people interested in trying this crazy sleep schedule. I fully expect Roomie R to start it as soon as school starts up again. At the BBQ we had on Canada Day too, some other people were sounding somewhat interested in more information about it at least. I fully expect too, once this Edmonton Journal thing finishes to have some interested parties here in Saskatoon, and likely some Edmonton connections that will want some advice as well. Maybe I should look into co-ordinating a poly-phasic conference. I may want to start with an online conference format, as we're all fairly spread out all over the world. Try to get some people to speak about their experiences, network with other poly-phasic sleepers... May be good... Plus I could be scheduled to be Poly-phasic friendly! 30 minute breaks every 2 hours, so hopefully you can take your naps when you need them. And we could have panels going all night!

I think it's a good idea, but I really don't see it happening before Christmas. The sheer logistics of it all is a bit of a deterrent. Maybe I'll suggest that to the polyphasic google group...

Day 50

So I'm now on a nice big round number.
50 Days on this sleep schedule, and I'm still really loving it. I got in a bit of trouble last night from one of my regular readers, because I've not been updating recently, but I'm been super busy.

I have played about 6 shows in the last 7 or 8 days. Jazz festival is Fun. Plus I've attended 3 or 4 concerts in that time. I also found out last Saturday that my Great Grandmother passed away. She was 99. That just added a day of travelling for the funeral in the middle of my busy week. It worked out ok, because the funeral ended up planned for a day that I conviently didnt have a gig or anything booked, so I didn't have to scramble to re-organize anything.

Ryan's been here this weekend too, and we're are actually filming some footage as I type this for the documentary thing he's working on for the Edmonton Journal. It should turn out ok. My one qualm is I had my headphones die on me a couple days previous, so I'm currently using "Head-Set-Superhero" which is an amazing headset. It has been around for about 5 or 6 years now, and it is a mess. There is very little foam left on it, and a wide collection of tape holding the entire thing together, so it's not the most attractive thing, but pretty comfortable. It also has a mic though, so I may look a little crazy with a mic in front of my mouth while sleeping. Oh well, I'm sure Ryan will make it all look amazing anyway.

But I should probally wrap this post up. We need to get some other footage today too. I'm going to start work on the summary of my sleeping experience tonight, after my 11 nap. So hopefully I can post that in a couple days.

I'm going to try to get back to a reasonable updating schedule too. So keep your eye'shere, and hopefully you can enjoy more updates.

Now I am just pretending to type more, so that Ryan can get a bit more footage, hould I leave this in the post? I think I might, just because I am too lazy to remove it. hmm. may be a little odd, but oh well. Hes still egging me on the keep typing, so I shall. This is a little tedious, as what the heck to type, while being forced to?

Excellent

Day 44 Update

I really need to get around to making a post here.
I have had a super chaotic week. With the Jazz Festival going on, I have been extremely busy. I've been flexing my naps a lot, to accommodate all the things I need to do this week, like gigs, and attending concerts. It's starting ot have a toll on me. I'm getting worn out, but I think I'm as worn out or tired as I would be normally if I slept like most people. Totally worth it though to see Jeff Healey, and Herbie Hancock though. I have another 3 concerts left, then it's the long weekend, so hopefully I can rest up a bit there. I also have a funeral to attend on Friday, on one of my few days off jazz.
This weekend too, I'm performing Saturday, and Sunday is Canada Day, and I have a kayak lesson on Monday, and I have to be somewhat available to do a story for the Edmonton Journal. Sometimes it's hard being famous. Although it's not hard to inflate my own ego, or pretend that I'm famous.
I'm quite certain if I can successfully survive this week while being polyphasic, I should be good to continue indefinitely. After this week, I'm not worried about forced nap shifting or anything until August, when I go on vacation. I'll have to explain to the Friend in Vancouver I'm visiting what my sleep schedule is like so he knows what to expect.

On a side note, I have found a rip in my napping blanket. That makes me very very sad. It's a custom made "Grandma Quilt". I'll have to get my mom to patch it before the tear gets too large, and I'll have to get in the habit of folding my blanket after every nap, so it doesn't get snagged on anything anymore. Those are the sorts of things I worry about more now with my sleeping pattern... It's great.


EDIT:
Do to a request, I am intending to write a summary of my Polyphasic experience to date. I've had complaints that it's a little difficult to go through all my blog entries to get to the meat of it. I am intending to do this, but it's not going to happen until next week. I just don't have the time to spend on it currently.

Exciting News!

So I got a call from a friend in Edmonton today. He works for the Edmonton Journal (I think, that or the Sun). Anyway, he's been following my sleep experiment and has discussed it with his boss, and got approval to do a video short about me. Very Cool! He's planning to be in town on the Canada Day long weekend, and he's going to take some pictures, and compile some footage. I thought that was very neat, and I am looking forward to it. I might have to clean my car up abit, so when I'm showing off my napping quarters, it looks a little more hospitable.

I talked to C, my Jazz trumpet friend, about it at our practice tonight. She showed her usual support of exclaiming, "You're that weird!" She does have a point. This odd sleep schedule is weird enough to be an interest piece. It probably didn't help that as I was mentioning that to her, my fly was open. I guess that just emphasized the weirdness.

So now I have to plan out what sort of things I need to show / explain. I'm sure he will help me with that though. But Exciting!

Day 38

For those of you who wish I'd do more productive things during the night, Yesterday was a good night.
Our house hadn't done dishes in a couple days, and as a result we had to use the last 3 plates left in the house for supper last night. So I spent the night cleaning the kitchen up a little. I washed pretty close to every last dish in our house, which took a reasonable amount of time. But now the kitchen is cleaner, and we can actually continue eating.

Then I cleaned out my keyboard. Like actually cleaned it, removing all the keys and everything. It really needed it, and I was able to make my spacebar work like a normal space bar again. I might take my work keyboard home sometime this week and clean it out too. It's starting to look a little grimy.

Alright, time to get to work I guess.

Curses

I had a super oversleep. My discman, that plays my white noise, and has my alarm at the end, ran out of power in the middle of my nap last night, and with no alarm I slept until 5am, basically taking my core sleep at the end of my nap. I feel really tired today.

This just shows an even better reason for me to buy an ipod, or some sort of rechargable portable music device, or maybe run a power adapter to ensure that doesn't happen again. It sucks.

Day 36

Ok, so I'm getting worse and worse at updating this blog.
It's because there is not much to write about sleepwise. I'm still going strong, and loving my extra time. Still not really accomplishing anything spectacular in the new time, but it's there.
This weekend was quite fun. Didn't get up to too much. Roomie N stayed up though on Friday until my usual bed time, at 4. When I woke up at 7 though, he was still out. And stayed that way until I woke up from my 12. When things like that happen it really make me appreciate my new schedule. I "found" a 5 hour period more than Roomie N, and all it costs me is about an hour later in the day.

So as this blog continues, I see it moving further from my ssleep schedule, and more to just what I feel like talking about. Of course I imagine I'll have little updates occaisionally about some of the projects I complete during my night hours. So what topics should you expect to see here? Well, all the things I'm interested in. From Video Games (Team Fortress 2 release date announced, awesome), Politics (Want guns? Just attacked US troops, then say you won't anymore. That's apparently all it takes for the Americans to hook you up...), boring odd facts about my life (I just got new phones! And got a great deal on them! Went in expecting to buy some phones I saw in a flier for $140, and walked out with a set better for our house for only $75), and other things that come to my head (Watched Pan's Labrinth finally last night. Good movie. Makes me extremely frustrated at the people I've overheard at movie stores and in theaters saying they would never see it, because it's subtitled. I didn't come to the movies to read! Sometimes I get scared for society).

So if you find that boring, then take off eh! If you still care to hear about it, feel free to stick around. Or if you want me to do something different, post a comment, and I'll think about it.

Day 31

One full month into this experiment!

I need to change my wake up routine. I am starting to get really stiff from it. I guess I could start doing less sit-ups and push-ups, but I think that will counter-act the usefulness of it. Today I didn't do anything, I just jumped out of bed as soon as my alarm went off. I'm feelig alittle tired right now, so we'll see if that fades away.
I also had difficulties getting to sleep last night. Now that summer is getting here full swing, the sun is starting to rise as I'm heading to bed. That just surprised me. I need to be a little more accustomed to falling sleep with the birds chirping. Maybe I can make a modified white noise cd, that's just 10 or 15 minutes of white noise, with no alarm sound, and use that at night for my core, and let my usual alarm get me up.

So I booked all my flights for my holiday in the fall. Really glad to have that out of the way. Unfortunately now my credit card is maxed again. I had to Pay for N-Roomies as he's a bum, and doesn't have a credit card or something. He has to use my card for everything online, which kinda sucks. At least he's good at giving me cash before charging anything to the card. The problem is just getting that cash onto my card.

I also joined the Saskatoon Canoe Club yesterday. I'm pretty excited. I didn't get out on the water last night, but I'm hoping to get a chance to on Thursday, or Saturday morning. I figure if I head out there when I wake up at 7, and am bored because my roomies don't get up until cloer to noon, I could enjoy the river. We'll see how I feel come Saturday.

Sleepwise, I had two awesome naps yesterday. I don't know exactly why... for both my noon and my 5 I fell asleep really fast, and woke up at my alarm feeling great. Hopefully I can do that again today. I've also found lately that my appetite has gone down. I still think I'm eating a lot, and somewhat healthy. My bills at McD's are down to a more affordable $10 a meal though, which is nice. I think I'm maybe not eating less, I'm just taking food like I've been taking naps, I eat a little here and there, instead of a couple large meals a day. I do keep forgetting ot take my vitamins in the morning htough, and often remember as I get to work, then take them with supper. Not a big deal.

But alas, I should get back to work.

Day 29

I am bad at updating this blog over the weekend. I just get too distracted.

I had a great weekend. Got all my naps more or less when I wanted them, and felt great the entire time. I went to a movie (Knocked Up) Saturday night, and as a result that bumped my 11 nap to closer to 12:30, which I was a little nervous about, but After forcing myself to sleep again at my core period, it turned out ok.

I'm starting to enter busy mode, with the pending Jazz festival rapidly approaching. It's going to screw my sleep schedule up somewhat, but all in good fun.

So sleep informational-wise. I'm trying to establish a more consistent, regular, morning routine. The worst part of my day for tiredness is right after my core sleep, from about 7-9 or 10. I'm hoping if I get accustomed to a specific wake up process, that will help me get out of bed quicker, and feel more alert, quicker. I'm starting with something easy, to see if it helps. So every morning now, I'm getting out of bed right at 7, and I'm doing some sit-ups, and push-ups (hopefully a side effect of getting me in better shape) then a shower. We'll see how well that works.

Other news in the sleep world, Kevin has suspended his attempt at Everyman. He started around the same time as I did, so we were both learning things at the same time. It seems like it was just a busy time in his life, and he's travelling, which made it a hard time for him. I think he's planning to try again in a couple weeks, with the bit of experience he's gained from his first attempt. He's not the only one I've been incontact with that isn't doing so well. Poor Brendan started his sleep change with 2 friends, but his 2 friends only lasted a day or two. They were pushing for the more difficult Uberman schedule. Makes that schedule sound ever more intimidating than before, as I hear more and more abou thow difficult it's transition period is (even though it's short). Maybe someday I'll shift my Everyman to an Uberman schedule.

Fun!

So I have really been enjoying this blog. Not only because it helps me keep a record of this experiment, and it helps me explain what I'm doing (I tell people to just go read the blog), but I also get to enjoy the interesting results I get from my traffic analysis.

I don't get a ton of visitors, and I'm not very high on any google ranking or anything, so as a result I get to see what sort of weird queries poeple make that end up here. Here's a selection. "saskatoon weather" Pretty straight forward. I have to assume the number 1 result on google would be pretty darn close to what the searcher was looking for, but for some reason they went through a couple pages of results, and came to a blog called sleepless in saskatoon? That's a pretty big tangent. "fun things saskatoon" I win! At least I can understand why my blog title could be about fun things to do in Saskatoon at night (there is none.) I just feel proud that someone looking for something fun to do in Saskatoon thought my blog fit the bill. Boy were they wrong.

Another thing I'm finding quite interesting is the geographical locations of my visitors. Saskatoon has the most visitors, which makes sense, but Edmonton and North Battleford have a reasonable showing. I have a couple readers from South America which is neat. Lately Europe has been kicking it up a notch too. One of the more interesting things is that Europe now has more visitors than the States, which was not what I expected. A large majority of my polyphasic sleeping connections are from the states, and Europe seems to have a small showing in those circles, but they win for readership.

Very interesting stuff to data junkies like myself.

My Schedule and Work

One of the very positive aspects of missing that nap yesterday for the BBQ was a raised awareness of my sleep schedule from everyone at work. They actually got to see me tired, and are now a lot more accomidating about my nap times. I'm not fun to work with when I'm tired. Some of the engineers I am in contact with too now know not to call me around noon, as I'm asleep. I do have to put up with some friendly banter about it, but it's pretty easy to take it all in stride when I start talking about all the things I did the day previous, after work.

One of the interesting comments I get is everyone mentions surprise that I'm awake at any given time. Yeah, I have to run off for naps on occaision, but I am awake more time in a day than you hibernating folk. Plus, only one nap fall during the work day, and it's over lunch. It's just as likely to miss someone since they are out on a lunch break.

It's also fun to talk about it. A large number of people find it amazing, or insane, but some surprisingly have heard about. One of the engineers I work with seemed to have a surprising knowledge of it, which I do not expect from anyone in this province. I really enjoy the start of the discussions. One of my co-workers asks me if I'm getting pretty tired, since I'm missing a nap, and everyone else at the table laughs, and I seriously reply, yeah, I'm thinking about ducking out for 20 minutes pretty quick. Then they all look surprised, and shocked, as they realize I'm serious.

I can't imagine what it's like for some of my more remote friends, if they talk about it. I may have secured my Crazy uncle/ co-worker / friend / freak title with this experiment.

Day 25

Missing naps really sucks.

I was forced to miss my noon nap yesterday, as we had a large BBQ with one of our biggest clients, and some key personnel from their company. I was expected to attend the entire thing, and I did. Screwed my noon nap though. I didn't have a chance to lay down until about 2 or 2:30, which I decided was too late. I figured I would just take my 5pm nap a little earlier, and hopefully everything would work out. I was extremely tired from about 2 until 5. I question if it was actually a good idea to drive home. Had my 5 nap, felt great, and everything seemed to be going awesome.

Then I laid down for my 11 nap. I guess my body is still somewhat attached to the monophasic schedule. Skipping that noon nap didn't catch up to me until 11. I recall going to be around 11. I woke up briefly in the middle of the night. I recall glancing at my clock and seeing 3am. I went crap, that missed nap screwed me, but I was still super tired, so I changed into my core sleep clothes, and went back to sleep.

So missing a nap is very bad. Done it twice now, and both times resulted in me oversleeping my night away. Occaisionally that may be required, but I think I shall try to not do it again until I have a couple months, and an adjustment under my belt. If I'm at a spot where I can't nap at a designated time, like a gig, or meeting or something, I think I will nap as soon as I finish, no matter what time it is, then try to force naps back on schedule after that one. Hopefully that works. And also hopefully, I don't have to find out if it does for a little while yet. (Jazz Festival week might be a challenge)

Day 24

I have hit a new complication in my sleeping habits.

It's freaking warm out. My noon nap isn't too bad, because I can park in the shade all morning, but my 5pm nap, my car is broiling. I have been leaving my windows open, but it's still hot. So the issue comes up. Do I try to drive home before napping? Do I just run my car for 5 -10 minutes before the nap to run the AC? Invest in some ice packs, and toss those in the car before napping? My car was hot to the point where it was harder to sleep. I won't have that problem today, as it's 20 degrees cooler than yesterday, good old Saskatchewan weather. Hopefully it doesn't heat up until I have some sort of plan set up.

Other problem I've hit. My cheap headphones that I stole from my Roomie, are too cheap. after 1 solid week of using them, I have broken the right headphone. It just crumbled in my hand when I went to put them in last night. So I guess I need to look into a slightly better set of headphones, or new player. (I can get an Ipod if I sign up for a TD bank account, so I might look into that.) Overall still seemingly uneventful last couple days. I'm adjusting back to my schedule quite well since my sick days. I have to flex my naps a little today though, due to a meeting we're having with a client here over lunch. Stupid lunch meetings. At least they are feeding me.

Day 22

Time for more updates!
So Sunday, I skipped my noon nap. I think that would have normally been a pretty bad plan, as I get pretty exhausted when I'm close to nap time. It worked ok for me though, largely I think due to the fact I spent my weekend sleeping. (Not monophasic, or polyphasic, just all the time) Once the 5pm nap came around though, I was pretty dead tired. I think I'll have to work pretty hard to force the schedule to get back on track, as it's a little odd yet, but I don't anticipate it being overly difficult.

This morning, Day 22. Waking up and gettting out of bed after my core is still the most difficult thing about this sleep schedule. I've done quite well at getting out of bed, but it is oh so tempting to just roll over and go to sleep. I am always extremely tired when I first hear the alarm. Once I get out of bed, after about 10 minutes of trying to make some breakfast, I'm fine. Fully awake and all. I need to change something about my morning routine to make that waking up easier. Maybe if I force myself out of bed right away and go for a 10 minute jog or something that would help wake me up. Or get in the habit of making a delicious big cup of black tea as soon as I wake up, instead of waiting until I get into work. I'll have to experiment with that over the upcoming weeks. Any suggestions anyone?

A friend of mine expressed interest in hearing more of what I have been doing with all my new found time. So I will try to discuss it a little. I am at work, so I should probally be a little brief... Currently, I'm spending my extra time doing a whole lot of nothing. I can't really think of any big thing I've accomplished since the switch. As it is I've been watching some Anime series I've been intending to, and finished 1 or 2. I have been taking the occaisional walk, and now that the weather is good again, I hope to take more of those. I made buns once, but they didn't turn out spectacular, so I'm holding out on another batch until I can find my cookbook, and try some other recipes. I've been reading a bit more, working on finishing Dracula finally, and The God Delusion as well. I've also become an active member in the polyphasic sleep community. I've been coding some templates and trying to gather some information to put into the new polyphasic wiki. And because I'm a gamer, I've been playing some games at all hours of the night. Even virtual worlds are reasonably empty at those hours, and it's been a great time to get some things done in otherwise busy areas. Oh, and I've also just started working on my Japanese. I took some courses in it once upon a time, and I'm quite rusty, so I'm working on polishing it up, and learning a bunch more vocabulary. My written Japanese needs a ton of work too.

So it looks like I've been accomplishing more than I thought, when I actually put it all down. Amazing how some of the little things just add up. I have to remember that I've only been doing this for 3 weeks, and I wrote off productivity fo rthe first stretch, as I was unsure how tired I'd be.

Big ones still on my todo list: I really need to write up a Bio to give to some of the musicians I play with. I've been hounded for it, but just never get around to it. I don't like blowing my own horn (I play strings! Ba boom chick). I think it would only take a night or two to actually put one together. I definitely should finish that before Jazz Festival though. I also have not started doing any work with the code I intend to use for a hobby software project that is in the design phase. And has been in the design phase for a couple years now. Maybe by putting those here, I'll be more motivated to do them. I'll look like an idiot if I don't. Oh, and I need to look into finishing my degree via classes, and correspondence.

Should probally get back to work though. I do need to accomplish things here too.

Weekend update

I have been sick. I think I ate something bad. It has been an interesting couple days.

I bumped my core shorter (like 1-7am) to try and help with recovery, and on Saturday I slept straight from my noon nap to the end of my 5 nap. Surprisingly all that extra sleep didn't throw the rest of my schedule off. I was still able to nap at my usual times. Saturday night I think I'm pretty much all better, and am dropping back to my usual sleep schedule. I slept an extra hour and a half on my core, as I'm committed to an event this morning, and I want to try just skipping my noon nap.

That will prove to be a bit of a complication on this sleep schedule. When I get ill, which is generally quite seldom, I think I'll have to adjust my sleep schedule dramatically to get over it. I just slept when I was tried, but tried to stay close to my nap end times. I think it worked reasonably well.

Some other polyphasic people I've talked to seem to live by a reset day, once every couple weeks or something, where they just sleep a lot more that one day. I'm not a fan of it, as I think it disrupts the schedule, and negates some of the benefits of Polyphasic sleep. However, if I get sick again in about 3 weeks, that may be a hint that I need to start scheduling something like that.

Day 17

Had to bed a little earlier last night. It was only 2:30 or so. That is disappointing. I think the problem occured because I changed my 11 nap a little. Due to the other things happening at my house, I took my 11 nap in my bed, instead of the futon, and didn't use my white noise cd. As a result it wasn't a very good nap. This sleep experiment is really seeming like it will be what finally forces me to pick up some sort of MP3 player, so I can keep my white noise track closer to me, and increase it's flexability. I guess I'll have to check my budget to see if / when I can afford one.

This blog got it's first visitor from Europe! Hello my overseas friend. I setup the Google Analytics on this blog, just so I'd have some sort of record keeping. I'm quite happy with it, it's a pretty next little app. I don't get a ton of visitors, but It's interesting to be able to see some of that information. I also enjoy making guesses as to who it is visiting from where. I have a visitor from Edmonton that is checking this blog close to daily (Hi Ash!). There's a slightly less regular visitor from North Battleford too, but I am not sure who that is. Saskatoon I have a very large number of visitors, which makes it a lot harder to figure / guess who those are. Makes for a fun game though. I think it would be even more fun if some of you visitors would comment on my posts. Tell me what you like about my posts, ask questions, generally help me improve this blog, and give you guys the content you want. I intended it as a record of my experiment, but that makes for a reasonably boring read, so I think I'm going to start bloging about other things. I need the weather to clear up so I can go make some good stories about my adventures in the wee hours of the morning.

Day 16

Uggggg.

So like I said I would on day 11, I have started being more ridgid in my core sleep times. I went to bed promptly at 4am last night, after trying to keep myself awake. I was a little worn out when I went to bed. Alarm went off at 7, and I woke up. But then, while I remember the next 40-45 minutes, I just wasn't functional. I was in a state of awake, but not really. It's hard to explain. But the important thing to note, is I'm hurting. What I'm feeling this morning is what I was expecting during the adjustment period. It sucks. But I think that I'm at the stage when I'm somewhat comfortable with my schedule asa 3am-7am core, with my 3 naps. And that's not where I want to end up, so time to force my body into the schedule I want. Hopefully I can adjust to this within a couple of days.

My weekend summary, with the lack of sleep and abundance of drinking, has started some discussion over at my friend Kevin's blog ( http://kevin.scaldeferri.com/blog/ ). He, I guess, is my polyphasic pal. We're both starting reasonably similar sleep plans around the same time (I think I started maybe a couple days before him) We're also going through a lot of the same things. With a couple distinctions.
I couldn't give up my Tea. I have cut back, and I only allow myself at most, 1 glass of tea, and I make it right after a nap, and I give myself about 30 minutes to finish it. I find it really helps me feel more alert and awake after a tough nap, and has not (or doesn't seem to) effect my napping at all. Kevin has dropped caffeine entirely. He's also quit drinking entirely, where I still have a beer every now and then. I am cutting back on both, but trying not to cut them entirely. I made a bunch of sacrifices for this sleep schedule, but I'm trying to make as few as possible.

Kevin also brought up some good points in a recent post that I had never thought about, but makes sense. He has not been very consistent with his nap locations, and is speculating that it may have a deterimental effect. I guess in that I would be the other side of the controlled experiment. Due to constraints at work, I always have my noon, and 5 nap in my car, and my 11 nap is most often on the futon in the basement, Core Sleep is in bed. The only thing that ever changes in that is my 11 nap sometimes is in a car, if I'm out. Even when I leave work early to get home before my 5 nap, I usually sleep in my car. Largely because by the time I get home, I'm just exhausted, because it's close to nap time. Walking inside is a freaking long walk. plus I have a comfortable blanket that is right beside me. Although I park on the street, in front of my neighbours house. They must think I'm weird, as there have been days when they were workign on something in the garage, and I pulled up in front of their house, and shifted over to the passenger seat and slept for 25 minutes, then left my car. I sometimes wonder what they figured I was doing, or if they talked about the crazy neighbour who sleeps at weird times, and in his car.

Day 15

Two week mark!

I'm still pretty worn out today, but pretty much the same as I imagine everyone who had a busy weekend feels. I was quite groggy in the morning, but after my noon nap I felt a lot better. Hopefully my 5 nap makes me back up to 100%.

Overall, I'm still quite enjoying this sleep schedule. I'm starting to get to the point where I'm recommending it to people, if they want to try. I still greatly suggest you do more reading on it (via links on left, or the google) as I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert. However, the extra time in a day is pretty neat, and the shift really hasn't been that difficult. I'm also getting better at the abridged explaination of what the heck I'm doing. When people don't realize I'm serious, until I'm walking out the door for a nap, makes things a little frustrating. I'm heading to bed! I don't want to answer your 100 questions. Ask me again in 30 minutes. It helps that my roomates are willing to tell their opinions on it. They know I get a little cranky just before naps, and need like 10 minutes to fully wake up afterwards, and they are pretty good at distracting, and fielding the general questions. I just hope they aren't pushing false information.

My boss has already suggested I write a book about this. I laughed at him. That really shows how little documentation we do internally here, because if we had more docs, he's realize I'm not a very good writer. Plus I hate it. However, PureDoxyk ( http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/ ), the founder of the everyman schedule I believe is working on a book. I think that in this case I will just defer to her work. She's also been on this sleep schedule a fair bit longer than I. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll say something great on the google group, or her blog or something, and I'll be used as a quote, or example. Maybe I'll write a chapter on surviving polphasic sleeping in harsh northern climates.

We do have a wiki in the works though. I think I'll end up doing a lot more work on that, as I'm more computer competent, and I have some ideas / visions I would like to do on that wiki. I'm trying to devote a night or 2 a week to working on it. Currently it just needs a bunch of good templates established, and some of the good information from the google group and elsewhere collected together. I don't want to promote it too much jsut yet, as it's still pretty useless, but I'll let you all know as soon as it gets more benefictial.

End of weekend

I had a very fun weekend, but not a very good one for sleeping.

Friday night I was at the Hose, having some beers with old co-workers. I entirely skipped my 11pm nap, partially because I wasn't thinking and drank rye and coke, which is caffienated, and kept me up. I was extremely exhausted the next day.

Saturday I was at a house party. I thought a little further ahead and drank beer until after my nap, which went good. But then I drank far too much, and slept through my morning alarm, and slept all the way to when I am normally waking up from my first nap... so I guess the timing worked ok, but that was far too much sleep.

So the conclusion I have come to if I can drink, but I can't get super stupid crunk, or I'll have to change the schedule somewhat temporarily, which is definitely acceptable. I knew I'd have to make some sacrifices when I started doing this, and that will apparently be one of them. The weekend though is leaving me a little more tired than I have been previously. Hopefully it doesn't take long to get back on the good schedule.

Day 11

I felt much better yesterday after my naps. That is one of the odd, unexpected results of this experiment so far. I am not tired before my naps usually, until about 10 or 15 minutes just before them, and I am a little groggy for about 5 minutes or so after waking up, but then I feel great. The only time I feel tired is always when I wake up from my core sleep period. It's a real chore to get up when that alarm goes off, but my nap alarms I can just spring up from. I think it's because I haven't quite nailed in the schedule of that Core sleep yet, so my body isn't getting too accustomed to it. I have successfully transitioned into 3 naps a day. Those are easy. I am also really enjoying the 4 hours or so of me time I'm getting every day after my roomies go to bed, even if I'm not really accomplishing anything great in that window yet.

I think next week, maybe tuesday or wednesday, so I can have some recovery time after the weekend, I'm going to be very rigid with my core sleep times to try and force that transition into place.

Day 10?

I think it's day 10. Yesterday did not go so well. My CD player was acting up on me, which cut my 5pm nap a little shorter, as I had no means to keep my white noise covering the airport traffic. I also was about 30 or 40 minutes late for my 11 nap, and both those factors combined made it a little rougher of a day. Got to bed shortly after 3, making my core 4 hours. I'm not quite at the stage where I can get by on a 3 hour core. I feel groggy when I try to.

But I feel a little groggy today, I think due to the poor sleep quality I had yesterday. I think I'll just try to take it a little easier at work this morning, and hopefully my noon nap will refresh me, and I can get the tough stuff done this afternoon.

End of Day 7

Well, I'm one week into this new sleep schedule. I'm still quite enjoying it. I have been a little disappointed the weather hasn't been nice, as I wanted to try to get in the habit of more walks and other exercise outside, but thems the breaks.

Last night I actually tried to sleep from 4-7, like the planned schedule is. I have been closer to 2:30 or 3 to 7 so far. Switching was a mistake. I am not quite ready for it yet. I was very very tired when I got up at 7 and ended up going back to sleep for another 1:30. So I think I'm going to stick with about 4 hours in that Core period for now.

I'm begun flexing some of my naps a little. On Sunday I has my noon nap at 10:30 instead, since I need to be somewhere for lunch. I was surprised at how well that worked. I wasn't tired when I laid down, but I put my cd on, and got some sleep. I didn't move my 5pm nap either, but I was very tired by the time it arrived. Some of the other naps have moved back and forth by about 30 minutes, without too much hassle or effect on my overall alertness or anything.

One of my current biggest concerns is my lack of good headphones. Currently to listen to my sleep cd I need to either be in my car, when my cd player is, or with my headset on my PC, on the futon. However, it's a little odd to have a bed upstairs that I'm only using about 3 hours a day. and also a little strange to walk out to my car for a nap while I'm at home. (although it is pretty comfortable there) So the solution I have decided on is to buy a new reasonable set of headphones to use with my ancient portable diskman, and make that my sleep hardware. Maybe this sleeping will be what I use to rationalize a purchase of an IPod. It's not too hard to convince myself I should get one. I should pick up a thin blanket that can actually cover my whole bodyIt'd be nice if I could get something that cn fold or roll up in some sort of little bag, so that it takes up less space in my car. Maybe a little pillow too. While I'm making a list of things I should get too, I need one of those face masks to cover my eyes when it's light out. Not sure where you even buy those. Maybe I'll hit walmart tomorrow or something.

Overall the weekend qent quite well for keeping my sleep schedule, but it was a less busy weekend. Next weekend will test it pretty good, as I will be trying more heavy drinking with this sleep schedule. I think it'll be interesting to see how much I can drink between say 9 and 11 to get quite drunk all night, but not too drunk so I can have a somewhat regular nap at 11. It's also a little odd to be planning to drive to a house party, that's within walking distance, just so I have a car there that I can sleep in for 30 minutes in the middle of the party. It should be fun explaining that to the people there who don't know me well too. It's hard enough explaining it to people who do know me well.

Other note: My long hair is becoming a bit of a nuisance to my napping. If I pull it back, I have a ponytail knot pushing in the back of my head, which is a little uncomfortable. If I don't pull it back, it ends up reasonably knotted and messy after a nap. Think about getting bed head not only when you wake up in the morning, but every 5 hours. As much as I'd rather not, I might have to go get my hair cut short again.

Well off to watch some TV before bed. I am enjoying the extra time I am getting in a day, but I'm not taking advantage of too much of it with any of the big tasks I wanted to accomplish yet. I'm mostly reading more, and watching more tv programs I've been intending to for awhile. Once the weather changes though I hope that will change.

That said, anyone live in the South East side, and interested in going for a walk every other day during the week at about 2am? No?

Weekend Update, End of Day 6

Well, getting close to my bed time here. Almost 4. Pretty close to the schedule I want already.

Not really much to report on, I think it's still going great. Still not feeling tired at all, except about 10 minutes before a nap time. I'm starting to flex a couple of the naps on occasion, which may not be the best plan, but I need to to fit around some other things in my schedule. Usually it's no more than about 30 minutes early, or late.

It's sort of nice to not have to nap in my car though. A futon is a bit more comfortable. I am quite confident that I can live with this sleep schedule, and I'm finding the transition easier than I was expecting. Maybe I just haven't hit the rough spots yet? Only time will tell.

Early Day 5

So I just skipped posting at all on day 4. Nothing overly eventful occured, except the season finale of The Office, which was pretty good. The sound on our downloaded copy sucked bad though, and about every 5 or so minutes we had to add a delay of about 400ms to the audio to keep it lined up. By the end of the episode it was around 4 seconds off. Talk about annoying.

Roommate Ryan is still intrigued by my new sleep schedule. I think he's pretty excited to see how I turn out on it, but I can already see his head working out how he can fit it into his life. It's hard for him, because he only get 30 minutes for lunch, and to tie that all up with a nap means no eating.

So on to my last day. Yesterday went well. my 11pm nap I didn't sleep very well, not too sure why, and as a result I was pretty tired by 3. But I also forgot to set my alarm for this morning, but even with my changed sleep habits, I didn't over sleep. That made me pretty happy, as I guess my body is getting accustomed to the new schedule. However, I feel a little tired today. My theory, even though it's kind of absurd, is that since I never heard my alarm go off, my boy is still in sleep mode, even though I'm awake. We'll see how I feel after my noon nap.
EDIT: Quick update: I had my noon nap, I was out like a light. And I feel a lot more refreshed now.

Today is also goig to be one of my first tests in how my new sleep schedule will effect my social life. We're supposed to be going out for beers around 4 today, since it's a co-workers last day, but with a nap scheduled at 5, it may be a little awkward. Whatever though. When I started out I had assumed that I would get odd reactions, and I'd have to make some sacrifices. The nap at 11 might be an issue to. Not sure where I'll be, but hopefully I can sneak off for 30 minutes. Might have a fair bit of explaining to do too.

Later day 3

So the drive home was not too fun. I am apparently already getting a little reliant on these naps. I was exhausted as soon as I walked out the door of work. I got home, and didn't even leave my car, just rolled over to the passenger seat, and pressed play on my cd, and went to sleep. I felt much better after that nap.

It's 10:30pm now, 30 minutes until my next nap, and I'm starting to feel a little worn out. I hit walmart and picked up some new cooking supplies (new cookie sheets, 2 nice big mixing bowls, and nice glass microwaveable measuring cup). I've just finished the first step to making my buns. I'll punch them down before my next nap, and again once I wake up. I think I'll bake a bunch of them tonight, and toss them in the freezer, leaving a tray or two to cook in the morning, so I can have fresh buns for breakfast (and maybe a couple to take to work) I think after I finish the first batch of buns, I'll go for a walk before bed.

I tell you, this extra time in a day is already pretty nice.

Early Day 3

I discovered last night, shortly before finding that I had no bowl in which I could make buns, that one of my roommates was unaware that I was changing my sleep schedule. I think that's a good thing, as it's showing how minimal the impact has been on my usual lifestyle. Of course it is only 2 days, but still. He seemed somewhat interested too, so when I successfully enjoy this new sleep schedule, I don't think it will be too hard to convince him to try it out.

I'm feeling a little more tired today. I went to bed around 2 or 2:30 last night. Couldn't make buns so I ended up cleaning my room somewhat, and reading. I was a little worried about reading, as I thought it might not be involving enough to help me stay up, but I had good results. I may need to pick up more books though. That means I'm already down to about 6 hours of sleep in a day, which isn't a drastic change, but I'm gradually moving towards my goal.

Looking forward to today's nap though. Still experimenting with where and how I park, and those sorts of things. I might have to spend an evening make make a reserved parking sign for when I find a spot I like, and works well for me. Or, since I am at work earlier now, I guess I can just tell the few other people that occaisionally come early to stay out of that spot. That seems less fun though.