Monday, February 06, 2006
Polyphasic Sleep
Sorry for the long delay between posts. I have been busy, and I am just now remembering that I need to post on here.
My local CBS station, KHOU, delayed an episode of Yes, Dear again. This is getting ridiculous. At least Yes, Dear is over for now, and they won't be able to to do this to me again.
WoW update: My tauren warrior, Rudolf, is now level 55. Only 5 more levels to go before I reach the maximum level of 60. My orc shaman, Rwen, is level 28, and my undead rogue, Rogerrogue, is level 18.
The real reason that I decided to post today is to start logging my daily data for my new sleep schedule. As of Friday at midnight, I am attempting to follow a polyphasic sleep schedule. What is that you ask? It is a schedule where you sleep only for short periods throughout a whole 24 hour period. For example, I am sleeping 30 minutes at 12 AM, 4 AM, 8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM, and 8 PM. That adds up to a total of 3 hours a day. I should be able to get a lot of more stuff done if I can stick to this for at least several weeks. This has become a topic of conversation around the water cooler where I work. At least no one says that I am crazy for trying this to my face. I don't think I want to keep this schedule for a long period of time, just for several weeks to see if it is valid and works for me.
OK, to the results so far. I started at midnight on Friday after having a normal work day. I took my scheduled naps as planned until Saturday morning. At 8:30 AM when I should have woken up, I slept until noon. I got back on track right away. I stuck with the schedule again until Sunday morning when I slept from 8 AM until 9:30 AM. I stayed with the schedule again until Monday morning when I slept from 7:30 AM until 10 AM. I took my naps today at 12:30 PM and 4:30 PM. I was getting tired just before my 4:30 PM nap today, but I feel really good right now. Tomorrow morning I don't have the luxury of sleeping longer for my 8 AM nap. I have a meeting at 10 AM tomorrow morning. I am limiting my caffeine intake in order to help me adjust to this new schedule. I might have a caffeinated drink right after I wake up in order to adjust as well.
I have been able to get a lot of stuff done so far. I alphabetized my DVD collection. It really needed to be done because I was starting to not know what I had in my collection. Now it should be easier to determine what I have and don't have. I have several more things to do that need to get done. I want to organize all of my guitar lesson files. This should take a few hours at least. Most of them are in a stack of loose leaf paper. I will have to go through and categorize each one. I also need to do my taxes. I hopefully will be able to get these two things done tonight while I am awake. I also have to watch the new episode of 24. Don't miss it if you like this show.
Oh, I also bought a concert ticket to The Cult concert here in Houston on March 11, 2006 at Warehouse Live. I have never seen them before, and it is at a small venue. It should be a good show.
My local CBS station, KHOU, delayed an episode of Yes, Dear again. This is getting ridiculous. At least Yes, Dear is over for now, and they won't be able to to do this to me again.
WoW update: My tauren warrior, Rudolf, is now level 55. Only 5 more levels to go before I reach the maximum level of 60. My orc shaman, Rwen, is level 28, and my undead rogue, Rogerrogue, is level 18.
The real reason that I decided to post today is to start logging my daily data for my new sleep schedule. As of Friday at midnight, I am attempting to follow a polyphasic sleep schedule. What is that you ask? It is a schedule where you sleep only for short periods throughout a whole 24 hour period. For example, I am sleeping 30 minutes at 12 AM, 4 AM, 8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM, and 8 PM. That adds up to a total of 3 hours a day. I should be able to get a lot of more stuff done if I can stick to this for at least several weeks. This has become a topic of conversation around the water cooler where I work. At least no one says that I am crazy for trying this to my face. I don't think I want to keep this schedule for a long period of time, just for several weeks to see if it is valid and works for me.
OK, to the results so far. I started at midnight on Friday after having a normal work day. I took my scheduled naps as planned until Saturday morning. At 8:30 AM when I should have woken up, I slept until noon. I got back on track right away. I stuck with the schedule again until Sunday morning when I slept from 8 AM until 9:30 AM. I stayed with the schedule again until Monday morning when I slept from 7:30 AM until 10 AM. I took my naps today at 12:30 PM and 4:30 PM. I was getting tired just before my 4:30 PM nap today, but I feel really good right now. Tomorrow morning I don't have the luxury of sleeping longer for my 8 AM nap. I have a meeting at 10 AM tomorrow morning. I am limiting my caffeine intake in order to help me adjust to this new schedule. I might have a caffeinated drink right after I wake up in order to adjust as well.
I have been able to get a lot of stuff done so far. I alphabetized my DVD collection. It really needed to be done because I was starting to not know what I had in my collection. Now it should be easier to determine what I have and don't have. I have several more things to do that need to get done. I want to organize all of my guitar lesson files. This should take a few hours at least. Most of them are in a stack of loose leaf paper. I will have to go through and categorize each one. I also need to do my taxes. I hopefully will be able to get these two things done tonight while I am awake. I also have to watch the new episode of 24. Don't miss it if you like this show.
Oh, I also bought a concert ticket to The Cult concert here in Houston on March 11, 2006 at Warehouse Live. I have never seen them before, and it is at a small venue. It should be a good show.
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