Days 21 to 25
Long time no post. Sorry about that.
Work continues on my Perl sleep timer. It's nearly ready for public consumption (I was really hoping to add a configuration interface first, but I'm starting to realize I'll probably never get around to that). It has been a help, but it's far from a perfect solution to my problems.
The last 5 days have really been quite a blur. My mother in law came into town to help out with Jackie's recovery and it really threw me off balance. Unfortunately due to the continuing apnea episodes I find myself very restricted in where I can sleep effectively. Unfortunately our guest room is where I've been napping. I have an appointment with my dentist on Friday to adjust my dental appliance and I have hopes that that will make it easier to sleep in more places.
The good news is I had a few really good nights over the weekend (where I didn't crash between 4am and 9am). The bad news is I missed several naps, over-slept by hours each day, and I'm a little sick again.
Of course as you all know by now, I'm the energizer polynapper. I'm still sticking with it. As I've said many times, when it's good, it's GREAT. I'm willing to put up with quite a bit (obviously) to make that feeling more permanent.
My mother in law went back home yesterday and last night sucked, so with a bit of luck and lots of determination I'll be back on track tonight.
I have a new weapon in my nap arsenal to help. I borrowed a copy of the Monroe Institute's Catnapper CD mentioned by Jeremy Zink and I'll be using that once or twice a day to start. I just had my first nap with the CD and it was a very different experience. Unlike a polyphasic nap I felt physically very well rested afterwards (not just mentally rejuvenated). I need to get some more comfy headphones for sleeping on my side though. I'll probably go pick up some cheapish ear buds tonight. If the CD continues to be this effective I'll buy my own copy in a couple days. (Thanks again Jeremy!)
Oh, and doing your taxes in the middle of the night is a nice use of the extra polyphasic hours... But taxes still suck :-)
Work continues on my Perl sleep timer. It's nearly ready for public consumption (I was really hoping to add a configuration interface first, but I'm starting to realize I'll probably never get around to that). It has been a help, but it's far from a perfect solution to my problems.
The last 5 days have really been quite a blur. My mother in law came into town to help out with Jackie's recovery and it really threw me off balance. Unfortunately due to the continuing apnea episodes I find myself very restricted in where I can sleep effectively. Unfortunately our guest room is where I've been napping. I have an appointment with my dentist on Friday to adjust my dental appliance and I have hopes that that will make it easier to sleep in more places.
The good news is I had a few really good nights over the weekend (where I didn't crash between 4am and 9am). The bad news is I missed several naps, over-slept by hours each day, and I'm a little sick again.
Of course as you all know by now, I'm the energizer polynapper. I'm still sticking with it. As I've said many times, when it's good, it's GREAT. I'm willing to put up with quite a bit (obviously) to make that feeling more permanent.
My mother in law went back home yesterday and last night sucked, so with a bit of luck and lots of determination I'll be back on track tonight.
I have a new weapon in my nap arsenal to help. I borrowed a copy of the Monroe Institute's Catnapper CD mentioned by Jeremy Zink and I'll be using that once or twice a day to start. I just had my first nap with the CD and it was a very different experience. Unlike a polyphasic nap I felt physically very well rested afterwards (not just mentally rejuvenated). I need to get some more comfy headphones for sleeping on my side though. I'll probably go pick up some cheapish ear buds tonight. If the CD continues to be this effective I'll buy my own copy in a couple days. (Thanks again Jeremy!)
Oh, and doing your taxes in the middle of the night is a nice use of the extra polyphasic hours... But taxes still suck :-)
posted by Jeremy | 6:24:00 PM
3 Comments:
I chastise you for not writing your program in ruby. <rubs jeremys nose in the pile of perl>bad jeremy. bad bad jeremy.</rubs jeremys nose in the pile of perl> now go sit in the corner.
admittedly, i didn't think of this until just now. but after you took that ruby session, it just seemed like a good oppertunity.
Yeah, still waiting for the notes from the class from you by the way. Hint hint. Gmail allows 10 meg attachments, can't be that big can it? :-)
Well, you can stop waiting cause there were no new notes. If there were it wouldn't make sense anyways. The second part of the session went by really fast and are only really relavant if you do some rails programing. We can talk about it in more detail if you want to go on a walk some time.
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