Broken sleep cycle...
I was a musician in my teenage years and often deprived myself of sleep rehearsing and playing gigs. After the music career subsided, my obsession became model helicopters and weekends were late night marathons of building, catching 2 or 3 hours sleep and heading to the field for a few hours flying, lunch then a nap and Sunday night getting back to a normal sleep cycle that I maintained during the week.After a divorce, I cared for my father until his death. To do this, I took on several part-time jobs so I could check on him, cook a meal, administer medicine, cat nap and head to another job.
30 years later, I find myself doing the same broken sleep cycle syndrome. I'll work on a design project, catch a few 'winks' shower, go to work, come home have dinner, take a nap and start all over again.
I read somewhere that Thomas Edison possessed a similar ability to work to exhaustion, take a nap (on a cot in his workshop) get up and continue with his projects.
Retirement wasn't something I considered and I was with my daughter this evening (setting up a wireless printer) and she's going out for a week on job training. Her comment was 6 more years until she can retire. I know if I retire it will be a never ending series of projects, be it home renovations or hobbies. Collectively, I'd be getting 6 hours sleep every 24 hours, but it (most likely) won't be in one session.
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Zzzz... Zzzz...