Who Needs Sleep?
October 6, 2000
7:37 a.m.
This is one of those mornings where even mainlining coffee just doesn't cut it. We had major thunderstorms the night before last, neither Lisa nor I got much real sleep (It's also why there was no entry yesterday, but that's not the point of this entry). This is a problem. I work on a hairline edge of enough and not enough sleep. I'm not complaining about this. It's my choice. I'll pay the price. And as long as I get my 5.5-6.5 hours of sleep each night, I can function to whatever level I call normal. But the risk is that a single night outside that range can make things kinda crazy. That's the game when your alarm is set at 4:20. When I missed sleep two nights ago, it threw me out of rhythm, and I was overly tired. And when I'm overly tired, I sometimes have difficulty getting to sleep. Like last night. So, now I'm running on two sub-standard nights of sleep. Dumping coffee into my system and trying to concentrate on the final pass of this story. By the way, I dumped the title I was considering as (bluntly) it really ended up stinking. Don't know what I was thinking... Aside: We're doing some pre-design work in the office. We have a module that we weren't sure what to name. One of the guys said "How about Rosebud?" So for a couple days one of our database modules was tagged with Rosebud. Maybe this is what I'll do. Title the story Rosebud. [just what everyone needs, eh?--silly developer humor to start your day.] Past history says the title will come to me when I'll least expecting it. So here's me sitting around whistling and not looking for titles. Definitely not looking. Totally unexpecting. Any time, God. Any time. Anyway. Where was I? Oh. Tired. That's right. I was talking about being tired. There are advantages to being tired. Right now I'm reading mostly for character behavior, asking "Do these people act like they should?" Being tired makes me a bit more critical. Okay. "Cranky" may be the better phrase. Being tired makes me cranky. And when I'm cranky, I'm perhaps a bit less inclined to give my characters the benefit of the doubt. When the main character does something that he shouldn't do, I'm less likely to analyze and more likely to hack it out. When supporting people are cardboard, I'm more likely to get upset and go fix it. Yeah. It's not a bug, it's a feature. So maybe I should stay up really late when I come up to the end of every story, huh?   Have a great day.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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Sorry for the arrogant tint to yesterday's entry. Maybe I'll go back a clean it up this weekend. |
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