That's the truth with most people in the Army. I was always amazed how when exhausted, people could sleep standing upright with their eyes open. Not me. It takes quiet and no lights to fall asleep. I just stay awake and get 'loopy.' After 3 days I will not be able to sleep at all. Needless to say, I slept very little when in barracks...


>>>Really ? You get better results working without a break ? I usually work on to stints with at least 2H in between, in crunge time I shift over to 3 shifts per day.
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>>Depends on what I'm doing. If the weather is nice I'll usually take off in the afternoon and take the mountain bike out to the park. I try to get to the gym on bad weather days. But a lot of it has to do with whether or not I can get "in the zone" on whatever I'm working on. Sometimes I'm working on something and really don't realize 12 hours have passed.
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>I've danced on the knife's edge often enough, but when I am tired I might be tricked into thinking I am "zoned" while the real speed compared to best times suggests another sibilant with the first letter of my first name.
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>>I've always had a variety of attention-deficit disorder (though had never heard of it until I was in my 40s) and that means either not being able to concentrate at all or being obsessive for 18-24 stretches. Since I was high-functioning nobody ever thought I needed to do anything about it (other than not try to have a normal job)
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>You mean there is a "educated" latin name for my tendency to concentrate on doing all other things instead of a boring programming job ?
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>>I took to programming and writing because people were paying for mental horsepower and creativity, not the ability to keep to other people's schedules and follow the rules. I'm not a very 9-5 kind of guy <g> I've always considered that my greatest success in life has been to avoid having a job.
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>The only I had to live according to other people's time tables was in the army - there I learnt to sleep anywhere at a moments notice.