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.