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I’ve Been Out Sick

I think you may remem­ber that my daugh­ter had a cold if you have been read­ing this blog.

Well, guess what? That cold was caught by me and my wife and then it kinda changed and then my daugh­ter caught it again and then I was the last one who had it. And then, guess what, it almost cleared up for me and then turned into an ear infec­tion and then it’s turned into a cough and now my daugh­ter has it again. Oh my.

Need­less to say, I’ve been so para­noid about not get­ting well that I have gone back to my nor­mal sleep sched­ule and still tak­ing naps most times just to keep my body semi-conditioned.

I have learned two things.

One is that it’s NOT that hard to do a Dymax­ion sched­ule and the other is that you can’t drink alco­hol and expect Dymax­ion to work. It just puts me under and I can’t get a short nap.

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Dymaxion Schedule

Well, so far I am lik­ing the Dymax­ion sched­ule in terms of fit­ting it into my life (or fit­ting my life into Dymaxion).

How­ever, I’m hav­ing a tough time get­ting up after my 2am nap. I often wake up at 4 or 5:30 or even later on some days.

I think the rea­son is that some morn­ings I just have less work to do than oth­ers. I think if I were a bit more inspired to get up and work on some­thing that this would be good.

Just so that you know, the watch is great. It does wake me up. How­ever, I’m a bit too tired to get up and get out of bed every time in the mid­dle of the night. Dur­ing the day is just fine.

I think I’m still adjust­ing since it’s been about two weeks now although I thought I would be com­pletely adjusted.

I do think that alco­hol is really mess­ing things up a bit as when I do share some wine with my wife one or two and some­times more nights per week. I seem to cer­tainly not get up when my alarm goes off by 2:45 am.

Any­way, I think I’m still get­ting used to the sched­ule and on those days when I have no alco­hol in my sys­tem, I get up ear­lier after my 2am nap.

By the way, I must admit that much of the prob­lems of late that I have been hav­ing are tightly related to my daugh­ter still being sick. We’re tak­ing her to the doc­tor tomor­row to check out her lungs. She’s had some issues with raspy lungs and dif­fi­culty breath­ing at times. When we moved from LA, we were pretty con­vinced that these issues had dis­ap­peared, but it looks as though they may be per­sist­ing. When I take my 2am nap, I find that I am lis­ten­ing to her breath­ing (or not breath­ing for a few moments) and so I’m not really SLEEPING as it were. I think that by the time that I’ve set­tled in for a nap that my alarm goes off 45 min­utes later when I have entered into my deeper sleep.

I’m going to main­tain my nap sched­ule but I’m not going to expect any real break­throughs with this until she is well and I can nap in our bed at night with­out me hav­ing to worry/watch her when she is sleep­ing with mommy and daddy.