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. -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux kernel 2.6.8-1.521 Load : 0.06 0.06 0.09
