Sleep

How much sleep do you need? I have never needed more than 6 hours a night and if more of those hours are before midnight then even better. My high school baseball coach would tell us that the sleep you get before midnight is better for you than the sleep you get after midnight. I don't know if there is anything to that because I think he was just trying to figure out a way to get a bunch of 16 and 17 year olds to bed early before a game, but, it does seem to be true for me.

But, one problem with needing just a few hours sleep is that if you lose any of those hours, it is more costly than someone who sleeps 8 or 9 hours a night. If I lose 1 of my 6 hours that is a greater percentage of my sleep needs than someone who loses 1 of their 9 hours of sleep.

I lost an entire day of sleep this weekend because we were upgrading a major system at work. I must have been running on adrenaline because it wasn't until around noon on Monday that I started feeling tired. I imagine some people might have walked away from me after having a conversation wondering what we just talked about. I just hope I didn't say anything too ridiculous.