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I’m definitely more tired today, after dropping to 4.5 hours of sleep last night. It comes and goes, at some points in the day I’ve been completely exhausted, and other times I feel just fine. It doesn’t seem to be closely correlated to my nap times, either. I’m thinking I should start keeping notes of when I’m tired and when I’m alert and see if a pattern arises. Potentially, it’s about that time each day and I should adjust my nap times accordingly.

I did have two naps today, at about 10:30 and 5:30, and they were pretty deep, although I still had that mid-nap wakeup during the first one. Unlike a lot of people, I haven’t been particularly consistent about where I’m napping. Based on what else is going on in the house, I switch between upstairs in our bedroom and downstairs in the guest room. The same is true for my core sleep, although I’ve mostly been sleeping in the guest room to avoid interruptions. If I start oversleeping my naps, I might have to re-evaluation this, but for the moment, this particular bit of advice doesn’t seem to apply to me.

One other thing that I’d been meaning to mention, and was reminded of by Toad008’s last post is that in addition to quitting caffeine, I’m also refraining from alcohol entirely as well. I don’t expect this to be permanent, but I figure that the last thing my body needs at this point is a depressant. This hasn’t been too tough, particularly since I made a point to stop buying beer and wine a few weeks in advance and to drink up what we had in the house. So, at home there’s not really anything for me to drink. Most of the geek gatherings happen at pubs around here, but it looks like we’ll be out of town for most of them this month, so there won’t be any temptation there either.

Finally, I took a walk this morning while everyone was still asleep. It was pretty neat to just stroll down Hawthorne with no crowds or traffic, and I kept going a ways past where we usually walk, so I got to check out a bunch of shops that I didn’t know existed before.