It's a pretty clear pattern now - if I wake early (4:30-5ish) then I'm not going back to sleep easily.
Sometimes nasal congestion makes the mask awkward, but that's not what's waking me / keeping me awake.
Sometimes Mrs is a little snore-y; pretty sure that's also not what's waking me.
Maybe I'm just reaching an age of less sleep needed; or maybe the new optimum is spread it out differently?
I think an experiment is in order: a regular nap betw home-from-work and dinner
caf by 6a
fill protein, creatine pods
rerun shwasher
swap earbud pads, trial the right sport bud w/ smaller pad from non-sport set
disposition some cloud repo files
pile / sort / start filing... oh god it's a bottomless abyss
homemade pizza
Toy Story series binge continued: TS3
MCU Phase 1 rewatch: Iron Man (2008)
- If you're going to tell your story in flashback-and-forth format, then you need to more clearly signal to the viewer what timeframe a scene belongs to.
- The actor who plays Lt.Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Terrence Howard, was swapped out for Don Cheadle in all subsequent MCU movies. Fun fact, Howard was paid more than Downey for this movie. One story is "Iron Man" very suddenly elevated Downey's career, so the Rhodey actor's salary budget was cut drastically in order to afford Downey. Another angle is that Howard had a history of legal troubles due to belligerent public confrontations and being abusive in his personal relationships. Reports of heated disputes during and after production fit that pattern.
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I think this is a long time coming:
Mindless passive TV 3 hours. Every. Single. Night.
Is not healthy.
Nobody looks back from their deathbed and says "damn I wish I had watched more TV"
or "TV really kept me feeling young and alive"; or "TV added so much to my marriage and social life"
"think of all the TV I could have watched if I just knitted less / wrote less / painted less"
I'm not saying "throw the TV away", I'm just saying I need to dial back the amount of time TV takes up in daily life, e.g. "7pm to 9pm" (1 movie or 2-3 eps of most TV series). Maybe even establish some schedule of entirely TV-free days: for example "Tuesday Thursday Saturday" or something like that.
It dilutes engagement with each other. After 10 years, ok, few couples are wrapped up in each other every waking moment? but by that token, it also dilutes or completely blocks engagement with anything else that might bring joy too. What did I do before this enormous passive acceptance of "whatever's on TV"? Even when I was very poor and just scraping by, I read more than 2 books a year, created software, experimented much more in the kitchen: actively exercising my brain even if I didn't have an overflowing social life or bottomless funds for experiences like travel and concerts.