Cranky.

[prog]

Good:

• I have some rather inspired Gameshelf post ideas that are just waiting for me to realize. I really will do them, once i work up the gumption for it.


• Project X's IP holder wrote me, confirming that the project maintains is month-long heartbeat frequency while in hibernation. I'm not actually worried that it may be otherwise, but it's nice to hear anyway.


• Had a great meeting with a new client yesterday, and another client has been coming by daily to dump a wheelbarrow of new tasks onto my lawn. Mmm, smells like fresh peat.

Bad:
My sleep cycle is broken again. Most days I am waking up after 10am, no matter what I do the night before. This is unacceptable during winter, when I must be especially mindful to maximize the amount of sunlight coming into my eyes. Here it is noon, I am drinking my morning coffee, and there is like four hours of sun left. When such days end with me feeling like I accomplished nothing, it's an easy out to blame my waking up late, but it's not entirely incorrect, either.

"This ends here" growled I through my morning brain-syrup. Must prioritize changing the bedroom environment, starting with installing multiple alarm clocks, and leaving at least one of the heavy curtains open. (Which means installing blinds - work, bah. Still.)

Comments

[prog.livejournal.com]

The problem here is that computers can be shut off, or unplugged. My sod-off-I'm-sleeping self is a separate person from my fully-awake self. He is entirely selfish, and not fooled by countermeasures that are easily undone. He leaves me be only through satiation (which is the case now) or through starvation, which happens only if I can somehow stay out of bed long enough to make him lose his grip. This is hard.

Looking around online for more evil alarm clocks now.

[jazzfish]

Looking around online for more evil alarm clocks now.

Clocky has gone from prototype to product sold at ThinkGeek.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I saw that! I also note the amazon comments from people unimpressed with the combination of short battery life and a (necessarily) screwed-in battery compartment door. But, eh, maybe I'd pair it with some rechargables... and having to fiddle with a screwdriver now and again would be a small price to pay if it worked for me.

At $50 it's half the price of the jigsaw puzzle alarm clock I originally had in mind.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

Those both look like they rock, although I know from my own experience that violence can provide an effective alternative solution to any number of alarm-clock problems.

Although this is anecdotal and in any case probably not wise advice to follow, I found that getting married somehow magically regulated my sleep cycle, and thankfully getting divorced didn't disrupt it again.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

Your reptile brained, half-awake self sounds remarkably like mine. I have found that the alarm application on the iPhone (setting several of them at staggered times) works "OK". I leave the phone some distance away from the bed that forces me to get up and deal with it, hitting snooze 3 or 5 times until I can get up. I have also discovered over time that a warm (at least, non-cold) room helps greatly in waking up. If the room is cold, the reptile brain really doesn't want to leave the warm nest.

Also, having a 5 year old child bounce on your chest until you are awake is a working method.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I have a cat who will stand on your back and poke your face with a claw until you get up to feed her. But only if the bedroom door's left open, and other mysterious forces, when present, dictate that it not be.