As many of you are aware, we were on vacation last week, returning this past Sunday. Upon our return, I promptly fired up the DSL modem and checked in on things. Unfortunately, an hour or so later my wife reported that our Skype phone, her e-mail, and the web weren’t working.
Upon hearing this, I headed upstairs to our office/home gym and was greeted by madly blinking lights on the DSL modem. After calling tech support, I learned that our modem was dead. While they offered to overnight a replacement to us, it was Sunday so it wouldn’t ship until Monday, with an ETA of Tuesday afternoon.
While I have an unlimited data plan on my Palm Centro and can use it as a modem for my laptop, we get crappy cell service throughout our house and I couldn’t handle anything more than an occasional check of my e-mail while standing by the window, so…
I ended up getting to bed a heck of a lot earlier than normal. And on Monday night? The same thing happened. I was in bed by 10PM and got a great night’s sleep. And then it happened…
The replacement modem showed up and I promptly returned to my old ways of staying up way too late and getting too little sleep. I was up late Tuesday night and am headed for another late night tonight. In my defense, we lead an extraordinarily busy life. I have a full time job, we have four young kids, and we also run a side business consisting of several web sites.
Given that my days are taken up by work, and my evenings by the kids (and a bit of exercise), the online stuff is relegated to late nights. The good news is that an evening workout gives me the juice to make it through ’til bed time. The bad news is that I’m wiped out in the morning and have a hard time getting going.
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Hey, even worse. Your body does most of its healing during the 6-8th hour of sleep!
Set a timer and step away from the computer at a decent hour.
That sounds familiar.. Stay up too late checking email, writing on the blog, etc. I was out of town for a long weekend a couple of weeks ago, and it was amazing how much better I slept when i had no access to a computer..!