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.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
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.
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.
Friday, November 23, 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
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.
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.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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.
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.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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.
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.
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