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I Think I Angered My Beautyrest Sleeptracker Monitor

Super Early Bird Deal at Summer scoops
Photo-A-Day #4400

Recently, I posted about the Beautyrest® Sleeptracker® monitor. It is a product I received to review and promote. I was compensated. I use it every night to monitor my sleep. Today was my first time using it while I slept for the day while I worked overnights. I’m pretty sure that my Sleeptracker is mad at how pitiful my sleep was today. I am not sure exactly when I drifted off to sleep because…

Okay, this was how the day went. I got home form work and stopped at my parent’s house to pick up my Dad’s truck. I was picking up some rain barrels today at 9 am. I watched an episode of Transformers Robots in Disguise (Season 3 just started) and fell asleep while watching. I got up in time to get over to the recycling center to get the rain barrels and was back by 9:15. That should have given me a great day of sleep. The problem is that I didn’t go right to sleep. I read part of the comic book that I got from the Marvel Collector Corps box that I unboxed yesterday. That usually gets me to sleep. It didn’t. Then I reached for my Nintendo Switch. Link and I set off through Hyrule to find shrines and side quests and much more. When I am super tired and I play video games I tend to fall asleep with them on my face or millimeters from it. Not this time. I must have powered through to stay awake and continue playing. I didn’t even look at the time when I finally stopped. Then I rolled over and went to sleep.

I woke up at 3:29 and looked at the results of the Sleeptracker monitor. I had slept for 1 hour. One single hour. I apparently was awake for at least 2 hours before I opened my eyes at 3:29.

I’m completely out of practice for weekend sleeping. No one was home and I didn’t put in my earplugs. I played too long on the video game and I didn’t get to sleep immediately upon returning home. I’m thinking that tomorrow’s sleep tracker screen can’t look any worse.

On the way to work I decided that I wanted to have ice cream for dinner and I stopped in to Summer Scoops. They have some good soft serve ice cream. Well, on Saturdays between 4 and 6 they have a super deal where you get two hot dogs, chips and a drink plus an ice cream. Well, I couldn’t pass that up for under $5. What a deal.

So, I may not have slept much today but some ice cream certainly put me in a better mood.

Moving My Desk… Again


Photo-A-Day #3522

It is moving time again at work. Time for all of us to pack up our junk and put it in another cube. I have pretty much the most junk out of anyone else and it will most likely take half a dozen boxes for me to pack everything up. I’m not looking forward to doing that.

It is appropriate that I have to move stuff right after vacation. Our mini vacation was so awesome and I was so relaxed (for me) that getting slapped with real world garbage again just makes me realize and appreciate that time I had.

Andrew slept poorly last night because he had been asleep the whole four hour ride home. So when we got home he wasn’t tired and he didn’t sleep the night. Allison and I both had a poor night’s sleep. Then I slept in a little got up and Allison went to lie down for a while. She fell asleep for three hours, which she needed because our time robbers took more than that amount from her. Meanwhile I was with the kids watching shows and playing games. We played Boom Boom Balloon and the popping for 4 balloons didn’t even wake Allison up, she was out. Continue reading Moving My Desk… Again