Sleep Rules, Friday data

RantWoman is embarking on an 8-week exercise called the Whole Life Challenge. The Whole Life UI has big #a11y issues on every device and browser / screen reader combination RantWoman has tried. So part of rantWoman’s whole life challenge is going to be addressing these performance lacunae while also working through the 7 areas where one gets to score oneself and share one’s experience with teammates. Here are RantWoman’s personal goals and rules about sleep, one of the 7 areas. RantWoman is part of a team with the word Laughing in the team name. So…

RantWoman promises more, and hopefully better edited comments about the accessibility issues.

RantWoman’s life is already beset by other technological and existential hiccups such as migration to Windows 10 and accompanying upgrade of multiple pieces of accessibility software. RantWoman aims to do the best she can to stay more or less within the vicinity of clear points and not get all fractal about EVERY single dang thread. Maybe every other one?

Sleep, RantWoman. The topic is sleep.

RantWoman was already thinking self-improvement and meditations on sleep and behaviors that nurture or hinder sleep. Hence the sleep blog, with notations related to sleep time, food, caffeine, exercise, social connection, bedtime, assistance from the feline staff, and random other threads. Take yesterday.

RantWoman wound up getting two forms of exercise, walking back and forth under her covered breezeway for about 20 minutes while it rained. Later in the evening RantWoman realized that she was not going to make it out of the house for some needed grocery shopping. RantWoman decided she was just going to have to turn some ingredients into food. RantWoman realized this about 10 pm. RantWoman’s first thought was to make her weekly pot of porridge. Alas, RantWoman learned she had not a speck of oatmeal in the house and the jar RantWoman though held steel cut oats instead held quinoa. RantWoman also remembered she has polenta and tapioca. Polenta makes fine porridge. RantWoman knows people who also make porridge of quinoa and coconut milk but RantWoman decided to make no-bake quinoa Cocoa-nut bites instead. RantWoman also found large pearl tapioca. That and two eggs and the gastronomic nostalgia for the flavors of childhood and powdered milk added up to a large pot of tapioca pudding. Presto two hours of activity, porridge, pudding, and quinoa bits for several days.

All this activity seems to have made the snacking that goes with 3 pots of food in process manageable. RantWoman also wound up snacking on some grated cheese. However RantWoman did not wake up with some symptoms she has been alternately ignoring and trying to manage behaviorally rather than say discuss with…

The sleep goals:

RantWoman currently manages to sleep in bed at least 4 hours most nights. This helps RantWoman keep her CPAP machine.

RantWoman has been trying to get more sleep and is thrilled to hit 5 and a half hours in bed. RantWoman really wants to get up to six hours per night.

Falling asleep in chairs does not count even if one sleeps an hour or so before going to bed. Falling asleep while watching videos does not count no matter how funny the late night comics are.  Falling asleep in bed listening to reading material on RantWoman’s wonderful digital talking book play with bit tactile buttons and labels in braiile does count, as long as RantWoman has the sense not to try reading about multistate forest fires, the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation commission , the Khaled Hosseini novel A thousand Splendid suns or other “light reading” at bedtime. In other words, one RantWoman goal is to go to bed before trying to sleep.

The Data

RantWoman will continue to record sleep data in this blog regardless of whether or not she can handle electronic nags from the Whole Life Challenge, regardless of whether she can reliably find the data entry section of the Whole Life Challenge electronic presence.

Last night, Friday to Saturday, woot: in bed at 2:30 and slept until 7:30. Almost 5 hours.