tiredofsametab

• 6 hours before bed: no more caffeine intake. Some people may need to go as high as 12
• 3 hours before bed: no more food. No more drinks with sugar/substitutes.
• 2 hours before bed: no more drinks (not everyone needs this; I have to pee a lot and getting out of bed just before falling asleep or waking up midway sucks)
• 1.5 hours before bed: shower followed by hot bath. Especially if you’re somewhere like Japan where insulation is a joke and everything is drafty and cold currently
• 1 hour before bed: no more active content (games, study, etc.) and preferably no serious content. Watch/read something only for pleasure, meditate, etc. ideally, avoid blue light and bright light in general.
• bedtime: no screens nor lights. Cooler, comfortable temperatures are good. Have comfortable sheets, bedclothes (if you wear them), potentially blackout curtains, etc. and keep them clean

Also, if at all possible, wake up and go to bed at the same time every day including weekends.

This works for me when in the system. The only bad part is if I’m on call or on holiday, my schedule easily gets smashed and takes a long time to get back (some people are luckier and can adjust instantly). Edit: Also, try to make sure you ARE getting light during the waking hours, preferably natural light; this helps with your body’s natural rhythms.

Edit2: also, try to move. Being fully sedentary is hard mode. Also lol at the downvote. At least say why. I realize not everyone is able to do all those, if that’s what your after, but this has all helped me.

I wondered this the first time going to a temple or shrine in Japan. It’s also quite common here. I wondered if maybe it came over with Buddhism and it made it’s way into the now-mostly-unified Shinto practice (pre-meiji-restoration, beliefs and practices were a lot more local). It could also have come in at the time of christian missionaries, but that seems a lot less like especially since it persists after the christians were forced to leave, convert, or die (though hidden christians remained, often meeting in caves in the hills and such).

I think one would have to search through what written accounts of people remain, particularly those of outside observers in a new place.

I thought maybe it came from some older homo sapiens practice, but even things such as nodding for yes aren’t consistent, so maybe not.

I honestly have no idea. I did my semi-annual playthrough of Skyrim (as a wizard for the first time rather than giving up shortly in) and finished everything I meant to last week. I have to look at my steam library, I suppose

I think it meant the main city of the breakwat region, not Moldova, but the wording isn’t great

In Japan, tons of people send LINE messages to each other. Some of the older generations still call. My US family and I emailed for what little data that comprises.

I’m 2-3 times a day. it was 5+ until we figured out my body hates gluten

You’ve already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there’s only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it’s also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.

SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga

As someone who frequently uses Japan’s bullet trains, that max speed is cool, but also of limited value since trains tend to stop in places. There are some areas, moreso in china that Japan, where that might make sense, but even if your train doesn’t stop at all stations, you’re still behind the ones that do until a track split to allow passing.

Japanese bullet trains had to get a redesign due to something akin to sonic booms when leaving tunnels that annoyed the hell out of residents several times an hour.

I’m wife’s hometown and we’re meeting her childhood friends in a few hours at an izakaya for sushi, fish, and all sorts of stuff. Please have a moment of silence for my liver this weekend.

I just gave up.

Please think about localization and various labeling standards and such. I live in Japan and bought a subscription to Chronometer when MyFitnessPal decided to enshitify. I was submitting labels with barcodes and information in their appropriate boxes (protein, carbs, etc.) but they rejected it because the image (required picture) had non-English text. Apparently there is (or at least was) a manual review process and they rejected everything not in English. Further, it took either weeks or months (I forget now) for the first response to my submitted data to come so I kept putting all this time into something utterly useless. They lost me as a customer as well.

I’ve fallen down the rabbithole. I’m reading a free course (from 2001ish) on Cobol.

COBOL is Maintainable

I now question everything. I mean, technically, basically anything is maintainable in that it’s possible…

I always wonder if I should just learn COBOL and try to just do a few juicy contracts a year and focus on my other pursuits (farming and considering making a game, as well as vacation of course) the rest of the year.