Stephen J Smoogen wrote :
What I found to be useful on getting sleep done was:
1) Turn off the computers.
2) Put away the computer books.
3) Put away the interesting spycatcher/murder-mystery
4) Take a half-hour->hour walk [having a toddler helps immensely here]
5) Drink a nice glass of warm fluids (non-caffeinated.) Warm water
doesnt seem to cut it.
6) Relax for a bit before getting into bed. Meditation, prayer, or just
quiet time [hard with a toddler, but possible ;)]
7) Goto bed.
8) If you find out that you cant sleep after 80 minutes because your
brain is whirring about bugs, security problems, webserver issues, state
of Fedora.us, lack of public CVS, etc... go back to step 4 but increase
the time for walking. [getting an exercise bike/walker helps here.]
That helped me the most after I left Red Hat. I wish I had thought of it
when I had been there :).
I totally agree here, as I definitely feel a real difference between days
when I don't do much physical efforts and those when I do. My sport
addiction here, like quite a lot of other urban geeks I know, is
rollerblading, which I practice 4 to 7 days a week :-D
I _really_ recommend it, and depending on how tired you already are or want
to be, it's very easy to dose the amount of effort you'll do for the day. I
also go to my office and come back skating every day, and don't have an
elevator in my building, both also help ;-), every little bit does! I
really realise this when I spend hours non-stop behind a screen and feel
tired "in my head" but not "in my body"... rest is then easily
achievable,
but sleep isn't... so I just go skating, take a nice relaxing shower when I
get home and off to bed!
Nearly the end of this totally OT message, but here's the final :
http://www.marmotte.net/roller/200406-slalom-thias2.avi
The greatest part is that skating is like packaging : Get involved in a
community, share the knowledge, practise, and you can get quite far :-) And
unsurprisingly, my favorite discipline is called "Free Ride" or "Free
Skate", heh.
Matthias, off to the Friday Night Skate in a short while.
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