Day 11 - Post Nap 1

Alarm: 3:55am

My wife got in bed late, so I pushed the alarm back 10 minutes to ensure that we still got 20 minutes of sleep in, however, she tells me that she didn't fall asleep at all, but myself, I still slipped right down into a lucid dream where we were swimming in the ocean so I convinced everyone to lose their clothes because skinny-dipping is more fun.

It was difficult to get out of bed (and not just because of the good dream), the headache is still here and obvious, my eyes feel tight, and I'm not in the best mood (neither is my wife!). 

My concentration is still faring pretty well though, surprisingly; and in fact, I installed CGMiner on our two Linux _ nVidia machines, our Windows 7 + nVidia machine, and am now working on adapting it to our Windows 7 + AMD machine. If you're wondering, the problem is because CGMiner utilizes the CUDA cores which aren't typically accessible; nVidia makes them available by default but you need to install AMD's APP SDK to get access to theirs.

I checked out http://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/overviews/everyman/ to discover a good schedule to recover from that horrible Core sleep this morning. I'm going to try out what they suggest, which is:

Which equates to this on our schedule:

Start	Stop	Duration
20:30:00	0:00:00	3:30:00
0:00:00	3:10:00	3:10:00
3:10:00	3:30:00	0:20:00
3:30:00	6:40:00	3:10:00
6:40:00	7:00:00	0:20:00
7:00:00	10:10:00	3:10:00
10:10:00	10:30:00	0:20:00
10:30:00	13:30:00	3:00:00
13:30:00	14:30:00	1:00:00
14:30:00	20:30:00	6:00:00

*I'm pretty sure that the site was intending those .3s to mean 20 (not 18) minutes, which makes those .2s more like 10 minutes to balance out the rounding error.

Missing Log Entries

While reviewing my survey results (sleep log), I discovered that I am missing all entries between 8/18 7:30am through 8/20 2:55am; a total of 8 entries. I am certain beyond the shadow of a doubt that I properly submitted the entries, so this is very disappointing and annoying.

As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, I created a Google Drive form that captures interesting data about me and my state of mind after each time that I wake up, plus right before I go to (core) sleep. That data is then saved into a Google Drive spreadsheet.

Google warns that if you adjust the format of that spreadsheet or the form, that you can unwittingly break the connection with it to the form, and I did just that on August 14th. So that I didn't have to investigate what it would take to repair the "break", I decided to just create a new sheet in the same document, and connected the adjusted form to that.

Thinking back, around 8:00am on 8/18 I did muck around with creating a new chart in that spreadsheet that helps visualize trends (especially with weight). However, if that broke it, I don't understand why now when I have the spreadsheet open in another tab as I submit an survey, it immediately records correctly.

For now, I will begin confirming the record for each new entry, but further investigation and research into the topic will be warranted if I notice that entries are getting lost.

*Edit 08/20/2013 9:49PM

My survey for Day 8 - Post Nap 2 is not being saved in the spreadsheet, even within the same environment as the Post Nap 1 had worked. I am going to take this opportunity to add a few sleep deprivation symptoms that I have noticed, then re-connect the form with yet another sheet.

Day 1 - Post Nap 1

I had eaten a few bites of fresh, cold watermelon when I woke from my fist core and then a few bites of ham slices (left overs from a picnic) before laying down. Ran/walked the dog tot he nearby park for some exercise. Dog trying to jump into bed was also distracting.