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Sleep is for the week, but this was a fortnight

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This fortnight has also been disrupted by laptop issues. Hopefully, they’re fixed now I’ve bitten the bullet and replaced it (touch wood). That isn’t necessarily enough to explain these figures, though. I:

  • Got to sleep an average of 1.72 hours after midnight (a score of minus 1,395 points), and slept for 6.5 hours a night on average. I suppose it’s possible measuring this is just making it worse, but I don’t want to throw out the idea just yet. I have been getting up earlier, which is nice.
  • Made five things:
    • The effort to sort out a second clothes order I had issues with,
    • Two solid sessions of writing towards a short story.
    • The decision to replace the laptop, and
    • A small amount of D&D prep (mostly printing documents.
  • And I finished reading The Bands of Mourning, by Brandon Sanderson. I’ve heard this described as one of the weaker Mistborn books, and I can see some merit in that. But it is cool to see the Investiture-related Feruchemical powers finally show up and mean something.

D&D ran on schedule this fortnight, for once. After levelling up, the PC’s faced a moral dilemma, a tax audit, a film-noir dwarf, and the old staple: “a band of pirates jump through the window!”.

Next fortnight we roll initiative.

Gaining Momentum

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This fortnight, I have:

  • Slept 7.2 hours a night, on average. A slight improvement. Despite that, I’ve decided to change this goal again, to “get to bed before midnight”. Minus one point per minute I stay up into the next day!
    • What I wanted from the 8-hour goal was to wake up before my alarm, and have a low-rush morning. Instead, I got up later and later, rushed even more, and still got to work late. Finished late. And so on until I got even less sleep.
  • Made seven things:
    • Three pieces of D&D prep. One of these was scaling up the maps from the adventure I’m running, to use with minis. This took longer than it should, because (a) Linux, and (b) my printer refused to scan anything. It wanted magenta ink. Maybe I should have just scanned it in black and white 🙂
    • A proper, posted letter to a friend I don’t see so often.
    • Another fragment of fiction writing.
    • More mending, and …
    • … another email to the company I’m trying to buy new clothes from. This conversation continues…
  • But I did finish reading Masterclass: Writing Romantic Fiction, by Barbara Samuel. I’m not a romance writer in any sense, and this book opens with “if you want to write romance, you first have to read it”. So much for that? But no! It still inspired me to get writing again, and Samuel has so much generally-useful writing advice I had to keep going back and taking notes.

No D&D this week due to the continuing round of cold-season illness.