Late Night Maintenance

When you work with servers, you'll have those day . . . er . . . I mean, nights, where you'll have to work into the wee hours of the morning.

On one hand, I enjoy it. I'm a night owl by nature. I love staying up until 4:00 AM -- just so long as you let me sleep in until noon.

No matter how sleepy I feel, I seem to get a high around 4:00 AM or so. I'm not sure why. I just like the night air, I guess.

But, I cannot go to bed at 9:00 PM and wake up at 4:00 AM a happy person.

I don't know why, exactly.

Nor can I stay up until 4:00 AM and wake up at 6:00 AM refreshed.

Nah, I'll wake up more like pissed.

So, I'm having one of those moments where I'm waiting on some data to copy over from one server to another at 4:32 AM. I've been up since 7:00 AM yesterday and I plan to catch up on some sleep once I'm done with this maintenance job. I have to do this at a bizarre time so that customers won't be impacted too much during the day.

I wish I could keep this sort of schedule all the time, but alas, I appear to be stuck in the 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM world-- the world of the dreaded "morning people".

The Night Owl

I'm a night owl. I think I have a sleep disorder.

No, really. I think I do.

I think I have delayed sleep phase syndrome. When I read the Wiki article, I felt like someone had been spying on me all of my life and then wrote this article.

I thought it was a joke at first. But, that's really an accurate description of me. I have all the challenges and emotions in that article. And the problem started when I was in middle school. I just started staying up and couldn't go to sleep one summer. And that become natural to me.

Dude! I'm living in the wrong time zone!

The problem with this disorder is that if I had trouble taking it seriously and I have it . . . who else will take it seriously?

Not my employer on my dreaded 8 to 5 job.

Honestly, I really, really, really like (not quite love, just like) my job.

I hate mornings. Mornings is what makes my job "dreaded".

I wish I worked at nights, could sleep all day, and run around town in the evenings before and after work.

If I could work from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM every day, I'd be in hog heaven!

My struggle with my coffee addiction doesn't help one bit. Coffee just makes the vicious cycle worse. Lately I've drank tea in place of coffee. I get by, but man-oh-man do I miss grinding coffee beans and slipping on that rich, hot, fresh coffee with sugar and creme and . . .

OK, I'd better quit that.

Hell, my coffee deprivation runs deep enough to where I'll drink grocery store brand instant coffee at this point!