3rd Shift
Returning to 3rd shift after 30 years is a bit of a trial. Working a 4dx10h shift is not, but 2300-0900 is. My biggest challenge is exercise and putting nights like this to use. On my days off, I cannot really revert to a day-life fully because returning to work would be impossibly hard. Sure, overnights in the NOC have been quiet, a tangential benefit to a company with 10,000 remote sites that all operate strictly during regular business hours. Still, I have the “newbie’s fear” of slipping in some way and losing the job.
So overnight Sunday and Monday are up, alone, and mostly web cruising or watching really late night boob tube. These are bad habits, so I shall begin by inflicting new entries upon you, my Unknown Reader. I shall also spend more time fiddling with Plogue’s Bidule. In the end, that last would be a pale stand-in for a Reactable but since that’s not actually a product, and merely a UI, Bidule will have to do.
Living way out past the streetlights means walking late at night is a highly threatening experience (See Mankato’s recent problems). So I need some kind of exercise, but quiet enough not to disturb others under the same roof. There’s always hope of another shift, it’s a really big NOC and my team covers 24x365. Still, it has rendered life with S challenging. I must work to keep her through this, with thorough gentleness. Ideas welcomed.