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In Which I Ask Who Needs Sleep?
Jul. 6th, 2018 10:30 pmIt's rare that I've had a week of such bad sleep as this last one.
(There's a guy who's been awake Since the Second World War.)
Monday, it was Skotos stress. Skotos was getting in some GDPR requests (and as much as I appreciate the power that the GDPR gives people over their data, what I think about the GDPR as a small site owner, and what I think of the EU trying to legislate for the whole world is a different issue). See, the problem at Skotos is that we've got some propriety software that was created by long-gone programmers. And I sometimes have problems digging stuff out of it. So I offered what information I could, but I really wasn't sure how some other data was stored, and that stressed me out. I was doing this GDPR work late at night (under the theory that I'd be stressed if I didn't) and then I tried to go to bed right afterward, at the late hour of 1.30 or something ... and I was stressed enough that I couldn't sleep until 3.30 or so.
Wednesday, it was being sick. I blaming overindulging at the bbq (more on that in a moment), but heck maybe it was stress too.
Thursday, it was RPGnet stress. There have been some ongoing problems with how some of our users and one publisher interact and it came to a head again Thursday, and I thought I'd put the issue to bed (ha!), but it had flared up again by the evening. So again the theory was to do something about it before going to bed, so at 12.30 or I sat down and wrote a post simply ending the discussion of the particular publisher's game at the site because it wasn't doing anyone any good: the publisher or our readers or our moderators or me. I finished that a bit after 1.00, and I was smarter this time. I destressed by reading till almost 2.00. But boy I was kicking myself over another night where I knew I'd get insufficient sleep. But at least I was able to sleep pretty soon after going to bed.
Sigh.
And this was all against the backdrop of trying to finish up the editing and then formatting of our co-op game design book. It was due on July 1, but I took out an extension ... and still didn't have it done by today when I was supposed to due to those Skotos and RPGnet issues. (It should be Monday for sure!)
The bummer thing is this was supposed to be a great week.
I mean, breaking the week up with a holiday right in the middle, that's the Holy Grail of work weeks. Actually, that was the plan some 15 years ago or so, when I first cut back my salary at Skotos to better accommodate what the company could afford. I was supposed to get Wednesday off to work on my own projects. And, we did that for a while, and I wrote some of the still-unpublished HeroQuest elf book during that time. But it soon became obvious that putting a roadblock in the middle of a work week just wasn't working, so we re-accomodated by giving me a little more time in the evenings. In any case, that wasn't really Holy Grail material, because I was still studiously working, just on my own projects, not Skotos projects.
But a single week with a holiday in the middle: that works. (OK, we'll ignore the fact that I would have gotten the co-op book done if I'd had one more day, but I ultimately decided I could really use the downtime.)
So Tuesday night arrived, and I'd resolved my Skotos GDPR issues by carefully digging through code (and I now know how to put together all the info for next time and how it works), and I was feeling great that two days of work in, it was the weekend again! And I had a great Wednesday. Eric L. and Eric V. and Mike B. came over and I BBQed up chicken dogs for everyone, and I ate too many grapes and Oreos which is probably why I was sick much later that night, and we got into adventure 6 of Pathfinder: Skull & Shackles, which means we're close to the end.
And Thursday night was pretty cool too, because we got in another two Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 games.
(And those are both things that we have a year and a half to finish.)
But there were just too many crappy nights amidst that.
(There's a guy who's been awake Since the Second World War.)
Monday, it was Skotos stress. Skotos was getting in some GDPR requests (and as much as I appreciate the power that the GDPR gives people over their data, what I think about the GDPR as a small site owner, and what I think of the EU trying to legislate for the whole world is a different issue). See, the problem at Skotos is that we've got some propriety software that was created by long-gone programmers. And I sometimes have problems digging stuff out of it. So I offered what information I could, but I really wasn't sure how some other data was stored, and that stressed me out. I was doing this GDPR work late at night (under the theory that I'd be stressed if I didn't) and then I tried to go to bed right afterward, at the late hour of 1.30 or something ... and I was stressed enough that I couldn't sleep until 3.30 or so.
Wednesday, it was being sick. I blaming overindulging at the bbq (more on that in a moment), but heck maybe it was stress too.
Thursday, it was RPGnet stress. There have been some ongoing problems with how some of our users and one publisher interact and it came to a head again Thursday, and I thought I'd put the issue to bed (ha!), but it had flared up again by the evening. So again the theory was to do something about it before going to bed, so at 12.30 or I sat down and wrote a post simply ending the discussion of the particular publisher's game at the site because it wasn't doing anyone any good: the publisher or our readers or our moderators or me. I finished that a bit after 1.00, and I was smarter this time. I destressed by reading till almost 2.00. But boy I was kicking myself over another night where I knew I'd get insufficient sleep. But at least I was able to sleep pretty soon after going to bed.
Sigh.
And this was all against the backdrop of trying to finish up the editing and then formatting of our co-op game design book. It was due on July 1, but I took out an extension ... and still didn't have it done by today when I was supposed to due to those Skotos and RPGnet issues. (It should be Monday for sure!)
The bummer thing is this was supposed to be a great week.
I mean, breaking the week up with a holiday right in the middle, that's the Holy Grail of work weeks. Actually, that was the plan some 15 years ago or so, when I first cut back my salary at Skotos to better accommodate what the company could afford. I was supposed to get Wednesday off to work on my own projects. And, we did that for a while, and I wrote some of the still-unpublished HeroQuest elf book during that time. But it soon became obvious that putting a roadblock in the middle of a work week just wasn't working, so we re-accomodated by giving me a little more time in the evenings. In any case, that wasn't really Holy Grail material, because I was still studiously working, just on my own projects, not Skotos projects.
But a single week with a holiday in the middle: that works. (OK, we'll ignore the fact that I would have gotten the co-op book done if I'd had one more day, but I ultimately decided I could really use the downtime.)
So Tuesday night arrived, and I'd resolved my Skotos GDPR issues by carefully digging through code (and I now know how to put together all the info for next time and how it works), and I was feeling great that two days of work in, it was the weekend again! And I had a great Wednesday. Eric L. and Eric V. and Mike B. came over and I BBQed up chicken dogs for everyone, and I ate too many grapes and Oreos which is probably why I was sick much later that night, and we got into adventure 6 of Pathfinder: Skull & Shackles, which means we're close to the end.
And Thursday night was pretty cool too, because we got in another two Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 games.
(And those are both things that we have a year and a half to finish.)
But there were just too many crappy nights amidst that.