Day 14 - Naps 1, 2, & 3

Nap 1 - Alarm: 3:50am

Ah... nothing beats a perfect nap. I'm not sure exactly what that bump-without-noise is at 3:42am, but I don't think it affected my nap at all.

Nap 2 - Alarm: 7:20am

Another perfect nap! What away to end this 2-week adaptation period!

Nap 3 - Alarm: 12:50pm

After having lunch with my brother, then dropping seeing him off back to the mainland at the airport, I needed to take a bus over to a car shop to pick up a repaired car for a friend that had just deployed. Luckily it was a 45 min bus ride that should have started at 12:15pm, however buses are always late. 

I was in a comfortable window seat by 12:25, when I realized that if I could quickly fall asleep on that nearly-no-seat-left bus ride from the airport, that I wouldn't even have to change the alarm for Nap 3 and would still wake up within 10 minutes of my ETA.

So I did and it was brilliant. The graph is all over the place with movement and sound (as expected), but as that became the "norm" my body/mind found peace and I merrily drifted off into a comfortable dream about the new Elon Musk idea, the Hyperloop. 

I was a bit stiff after waking, but I totally avoided all symptoms of sleep loss until about 8:00 when I began to feel the slight pressure behind my eyes again.

Day 13 - Post Nap 3

Alarm: 12: 50pm

Perfect Nap! I must be getting the hang of it (and getting lucky with the daytime noise levels). I feel great, have no symptoms, am very refreshed and am still getting lots of meaningful work done for the edX.org class that I'm currently involved in, SaaS 2 (Software as a Service/Engineering Long Lasting Software).

There have been ups and downs, but since nothing too crazy has happened during my adaptation period, I have decided to stop blogging on a per nap basis beginning with Day 15. I do plan to continue regularly tracking myself via the survey, however I haven't yet decided at what frequency I will continue this blog.

Day 13 - Post Nap 2

Alarm: 7:20am

Woot! Perfect nap!

It took a tiny bit longer for me to fall asleep than usual, as expected, but using proactive sleeping techniques like:

• regulated my breathing, 
• ensuring that the room was dark, 
• being completely still 
• in a comfortable sleep position, and 
• letting my mind wander about, 

I was able to fall asleep within several seconds.

Strange occurrence though, for the first time, I woke up with our new puppy curled up in our bed for the first time. She was curled up between my knees as I slept half on my stomach, half on my side with my arms crossed under my face.

She must have been a little ninja in getting up on our captain's style bed, because she can't even see on top of the mattress standing on her hind legs and yet she didn't trigger the SleepBot sensors.

Day 12 - Post Nap 2

Alarm 7:00am

Perfect nap! Good-timing and uninterrupted, I awoke even more refreshed than after a good core sleep.

SleepBot decided to only record for the first minute though, so perhaps I squished the "Wake Up" button with my pillow before my screen had a chance to turn itself off and lock.

Day 12 - Post Nap 1

Alarm: 3:50pm

Bam! That's what I'm talking about! Another perfect nap + exercise = more feel good hours for me. : )

Day 11 - Nap 4 (Recovery)

Alarm: 3:30pm (smart)

By 1:30pm, I no longer felt the symptoms that convinced me to switch to the recovery schedule, so I decided to keep working a bit in the yard with my wife; we are preparing a tree for planting at a neighborhood park tomorrow morning.

At 2:45pm I decided that I should nap again anyway, but instead do so under a smart alarm, one that would monitor when I exited REM. The result was I only slept for 18 minutes, so my wife and I could still make our plans to go swim laps at the neighborhood pool. After swimming, I experienced near-perfect freshness.

Day 11 - Post Nap 3

Alarm: 10:50am

Ahhh... a perfect recovery nap was exactly what the doctor ordered; I'm already feeling so much better. I had just a slight headache when the alarm sounded, but a just little physical activity was enough to assuage the pain. I can't wait until after the next nap, its a big, whopping 1 hour kind!

Day 10 - Post Nap 3

Alarm: 12:50pm

Huzzah! Perfect Nap! (and I feel great and have no sleep loss symptoms)

Without further ado, I'm going to get back to work :P.

Day 10 - Post Nap 1

Alarm: 4:20am

It is feeling like delaying this nap because of the delayed core was a great idea.

Had a nearly perfect nap, except that I was briefly disturbed by an itchy nose; perhaps I shouldn't trim my facial hair right before bed? I am still experiencing a light pressure behind my eyes and other general discomfort, otherwise I am feeling rather refreshed and ready to get back to work.

Troubleshooting my wife's phone again this morning. Since getting returned from the warranty repair of the usb port, her GPS and 4G connections do not work 90% of the time so I want to try installing a different ROM. The problem is that this model, SPH-d710, has few options, half of which require flashing a zimage via fastboot... now if I could only get fastboot to recognize the device. Meh, perhaps I'll just replace the zimage in a known working zip and load it via CWM.

Day 9 - Post Nap 3

Alarm: 12:50pm

Perfect nap! ...and boy do I feel so much better. Nearly every symptom from this morning is gone, except for a slight, hard-to-describe discomfort. After eating, I'm ready to dive back in and get some more work done.

Home and Garden Chores

And thank goodness for chores! I can't say I would have predicted me feeling that way, but when I was being lulled into sleeping too early, I switched from working with spreadsheets and IDEs to doing dishes, laundry and yard work. The sun on me and the physical activity was enough to carry me through, and by the time I hit the bed, I was feeling better already anyway.

Day 8 - Post Nap 1

Alarm: 3:50am

Bam! Perfect Nap. It was on time, no interruptions, awoke refreshed.

Too bad I don't feel at 100%. The poor core sleep over the last two days is still adversely effecting me. Perhaps a few more of these and we can put those behind us?

Day 8 - Post Nap 2

Alarm: 7:00 am

Perfect nap: was in bed on time to relax, slipped into a lucid dream within seconds, solved a programming problem while under, was not interrupted, and woke up seconds before my alarm sounded; now if only I could repeat this performance every nap!

My survey entry was failing to save to the spreadsheet, so I capitalized on that opportunity to redesign the form a little bit. I added section headers and a symptoms checkbox question, then reconnected it to the spreadsheet on a different sheet.

Even with the perfect nap though, that headache that began with pushing my core sleep so far back is still slightly noticeable, but it is not strong enough to warrant any kind of worry or medication.