I reveal a bit about myself

I thought about staggering the times I release each post so that my time zone would remain a mystery. But if people really want to know what time zone I live in, I don't really care if they find out. Time zones still huge so knowing that won't narrow down where I live or work. 

Also I realized I have a unisex name so my gender is a mystery on this blog. I'm even more mysterious than I realized. 

But I'll give some info about myself. My age is between 4 & 104. My favorite movie is the Matrix. I am more than 3 feet but less than 9 feet tall. I have hair. I wear socks and shoes. I am right handed but force myself to also write with my left hand so that I can claim I am ambidextrous. I am allergic to dogs. I speak English (which considering that this blog is written in English was probably obvious) and some French.

Sammy

Don't pull an all dayer while working night shift

 When someone stays up all night, they call it an all nighter, so then when they stay up all day, is it an all dayer? I thought of that yesterday morning as I was trying to fall asleep for the day. I bragged about how I have actually managed to get more sleep on nights than usual and then I struggled to fall asleep. I jinxed myself. 

I want to learn more about ergonomics. My co-workers have been showing me scars and talking about pain related to repetitive tasks at work. It has scared me just enough to take it seriously. I want to prevent damage to myself while I'm young so I can reduce my suffering later on.

Breaks on nights can be lonely as all my friends and family are all sleeping (or at least they should be). I am not a fan of social media so that leaves me with emails to time delay delivery until morning or Google. I don't really have anything to email people about tonight so here I sit all by myself writing in a blog I have yet to tell anyone about yet. I'm not a particularly talkative person but I enjoy being around people. So this is a little bit of a challenge. 

Night shift has restructured my normal routine. On days, I would wake up, quickly eat then head to work. After a day shift, I would then get social interaction in. Now, my schedule is reversed?, inverted?, Upsidedown? I don't know. Now I wake up, socialize with my family, watch my favorite YouTubers, eat supper and work is the last thing I do. I get home from work, eat something quickly then go to bed. It is strange. I don't mind it. It is just not what I'm used to.

I've been thinking about how I'm going to handle the switch to days off. I don't think I would be easily able to just stay up the day after my last night shift in a set. Or maybe I could? I haven't tried. I read something about sleeping until lunch time and then staying up to a regular night of sleep. That could work too. It might even be better because my friend I hang out with the most isn't usually awake in the morning so there would be less lonely time if I also slept that first morning off. 

I never noticed the sound of the ventilation in my building during the day, but right now, it seems really loud. Was it this loud in the day time too? It probably was but it got drowned out by people buzzing through. 

That's all folks.

Sammy

A Tired Idea

So I just started doing night shifts this week at my new job. Some people sleep on break, others play on their phones or watch videos, others eat. I know myself well enough to know that I don't nap on schedule well. Playing on my phone feels unproductive. I don't particularly hungry at night. I've decided I'm going to blog. So here it is. 

I don't expect brilliance or perfection out of this. Honestly I'll be surprised if I have 2 coherent sentences in a row. I just want something that I can post at night that won't be causing my friends phones to ping when they are trying to sleep. 

My break usually is at 0330-0430 local time, though workflow can shift that around. I will likely post every shift which will be 7 nights on, 7 nights off once I am done training. I am not sure when training will be done as there are a lot of complex parts to learn in my department.

You may be wondering what my job is. Well... I could say but I'm not gonna because I don't want to be perceived as an expert in the area or a representative of the industry. Plus it makes me more mysterious and lots of people love mystery. 

I think that is a pretty good intro. I'll stop here because A) I don't really know what else to say and B) I can now see out of the window I sat beside and want to spend time looking through it.

Sammy