Sleepiness
He that will not reflect is a ruined man. Asian Proverb
Three days without coffee. Tired. But, I’m feeling better and sleeping much more soundly.
After day three, I’ve usually overcome the painful headaches that accompanies withdrawal from caffeine. None so far today. I think I’ve succeeded in this goal.
Next goal*: No playing games (video, poker, rpg, board, or otherwise) when I should be sleeping.
*I’m a sucker for games. When Lily goes to sleep, my inner gamer comes out, and my thoughts are along the lines of “I better get in a good hour of games before bed, since I won’t get the chance to do this during the day.” And, while that may be true, it is a bane on my sleep.
Confession
I used to be really into playing these online social roleplaying games, called MUDs. In college, I would sometimes have all-night sessions, where I would come home from classes or work around 5pm, and play straight through until 8 or 9AM the next day when class started. I would barely take a break for dinner.
One quarter, when I was training for the Sea Otter mountain bike cross country race, I programmed a “bot” method of playing that allowed me to train on my indoor cycle trainer while watching the progress of my character on the monitor. My character was using variable methods of combat and interaction that made it seem like I was actually playing and conversing with people. I would put in variable responses like, “Shut up, I’m busy,” or “Hold on, I’m on the phone” whenever people would send me a message. If a monster would walk into the room, I would have variable attacking and healing based on the combat results.
This worked fine for a couple nights until another player walked in on my character and after observing my action for fifteen minutes, realized I was not actually playing. He attacked me and took all my armor, weapons, and gold, since I hadn’t accounted for player-to-player combat. The next night, I had fixed it, and when he walked into the room, I killed him with my pre-programmed robot triggers, looted his corpse, and logged off 
Not wanting to get into an anticipation trigger-based programming war, I stopped “botting” the next night, and haven’t done it since.
