Everyman - Can we call it a success now?

When is it an Everyman screwup?  When you oversleep!!

No, no, I didn’t oversleep last night.  I did oversleep the night before — only by about 40 minutes — and I was ZONKED.  ALL DAY.  It SUX0RD, as the gamer kids say.  (See that?  Smoothly distanced myself from the gamer kids, so that I can pretend later that it was self-respect, and not carpal tunnel, that ended my gamer days.  ;)

Today, I’m fine.  It really doesn’t seem to matter if I get my core at 9:30p or 1:00a (those seem to be the two times it happens at, and I definitely can tell that waking up at 12:00ish or 4:00ish is way easier than other times).  I’m cool and totally un-tired, as long as I get just my core and no more than one other 20-minute nap overnight. 

My totals are settling at four hours per day:  One three-hour core and three 20-minute naps.  It’s been no more than 4 hours for over a month now, and before that it was occasionally more or less as I messed with things,but never more than 6 in one night (even when I overslept) and not less than three. 

When exactly these naps all occur is becoming just impossible to track; if it weren’t for the facts that I’m not sleeping any more than I was and I’m not tired, I would think I was failing!  But this, I’m sensing, is just what Everyman is like.  Quite a ride, like Uberman, but a different sort of ride.

If Uberman is bungie jumping, then Everyman is putting on ninja clothes and infiltrating a government stronghold.

If Uberman is Superman, then Everyman, believe it or not, is Batman.  The one is a one-in-a-million gifted-with-alien-superpowers thing that goes all or nothing and produces shocking, supernovalike results…and the other is just a regular guy with hella resources and determination, who’s crazy and patient enough to pull off amazing shit, often under the radar. 

And me, I get to be extremely loosely affiliated with *both*.  Woooo!

(And I’d hate to say it, being an equal fan of both methods, but in Frank Miller’s fan-freaking-tastic book, Batman does beat Superman…)

Anyway, the naps aren’t completely nonsensical:  If my core is early, my naps are “early-early morning, mid-morning, and early afternoon” … and if my core is late, the naps are “mid-morning, early afternoon, and mid-evening”.

Four hours. 
Totally rested. 
This coming Sunday (October 15) is Day 90 on this schedule, and though I’ve certainly made near-constant modifications to it, I never went anything close to back to monophasic, so if there were negative effects, I have to think I’d be seeing them.  I am, by the way, getting my blood pressure and a general checkup done weekly at my chiropractor’s, and have my whole family on alert for any sign of mental or physical problems.  My typing speed (which is how I measure my reaction-time) is steady and normal compared to six months ago.  I’d say Everyman is a go, overall.

I will do a more thorough breakdown of how the schedule has affected my life at another time — maybe on that 90-day anniversary, if I remember.  In the meantime, FYI to all you survivally-minded folks out there:  The Detroit Tigers are in the playoffs and actually doing well, so if you have special plans for the Apocalypse, you might want to dig ‘em out…  ;)

-PD