Sunday, August 06, 2006

Sleep; "Just Say No"

As some of you know, I work a rotating shifts job. The shifts rotate Day, 1 day off, Grave, 2 days off, Swing, 3 days off, and starting over with Day again. Also, it's 7 days on, as opposed to a normal 5 days on work week. Anyway, Day shift is the hardest. I have to be up at 5am to get to my shop by 6:55am. Everything would work out fine if I could get to bed at 8:30pm or there about. But we don't live in a perfect world. I think the earliest I made it to bed this Day shift is 10pm. I've been averaging around 10:45pm. The other night I was up until 1pm fixing my wife's computer (her "canned" virus software that came on the PC ran out it's "free trial", and I had to uninstall it and install the free Magaffee stuff from Comcast). So, anyway, my "rant" today is about Sleep. It's over rated. I mean, all it does is get in the way of getting things done. Stupid bodies needing to shut down for 6 hours... Blah. I think God programed us with the need for Sleep to teach us some humility and discipline; as that is what it really takes for me to get to bed at a decent hour. Swing is nice, as I can sleep in until 1pm, but it's not cool because I can't Game when I'm on Swing. I'd gladly take a second Day or Grave shift to get out of Swing. Grave is nice because I go to bed at 8am and get up and do whatever until I have to start getting ready at 9:30pm. I would be happy as a clam if I just had Grave. But life doesn't work that way; not at my job anyway.