Lack Of Sleep
I normally get tons of sleep over the weekend. Probably too much. That wasn’t the case this weekend. I also normally don’t blog about work because that can get me in a bunch of trouble. People have been fired for blogging about work. I’m going to risk it this time.
I started to get to bed around 11:30 Friday night after catching up on my TV shows. About 12:30 the on-call cell phone went off. It was minor and took 10 minutes to fix. 10 minutes after that was another phone call. 10 minutes later, I was done. 10 minutes after that was yet another phone call… Well… you get the point. This lasted until 4:30 in the morning.
Kiara was out of town, so I had to get up early to feed and water the animals, and let the dogs out. That meant about 4 hours of sleep Friday night. Saturday night, I ended up getting to sleep around 11:00 (after passing out on the couch first.) We have an automated process that checks the integrity of one of our RAID arrays. This starts at Midnight and generally runs until about 2:30 to 3:00 AM. It gives an update page every 15 minutes even if nothing wrong is found. What a crock! Well, Saturday night it took until 5 AM to finish. This means that I was woken up every 15 minutes between Midnight and 5 AM. I had to wake up enough to make sure that nothing was wrong before dozing back off for another 15 minutes. Gnah!
About 7 AM, I got another call to do more work. That means that I had about 5 hours of “napping” and 2 hours of sleep. Good God!
I slept fairly well Sunday night, but I did get paged a few times. I got to bed around 10 PM, and slept through until 6 AM. A good night’s sleep of total exhaustion. Kind of good, but I didn’t really recover all that much from the previous two nights.
I was supposed to hand off the cell phone Monday, but I couldn’t get into work because of the snow. That meant yet another night of being on call. Fortunately, the phone was quiet, but I had a severe case of insomnia. I didn’t get to sleep until a little after 1 AM, and I got up a little before 8 AM. Seven hours of sleep. Not quite enough, but liveable.
I’m really looking forward to tonight when I can get a good night’s sleep without being on call. It’s a good thing that I’m only on call for 1 out of every 4 weeks.
