Accidental Meth

[00:00:00 ] Introduction and Podcast Updates

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[00:00:02 ] Christina: What? The feed’s been updated? You’re listening to Overtired. I’m Christina Warren, joined as always by Jeff Severinskenzel and Brett Terpstra. Guys, hello.

[00:00:14 ] Brett: As, as always, sometimes, as sometimes, all three of us are here.

[00:00:18 ] Christina: Well, look, I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s like, let’s just, let’s just focus on the fact that again, like I said, the feed’s been updated. Like we’ve got a new episode out.

[00:00:28 ] Brett: Um, yeah, and I, the plan is to have new episodes for a few weeks in a row here, if we, if we stick to plan. We have sponsors, and It would be more trouble to not do the episode than to do the episode. So yeah.

[00:00:46 ] Christina’s Exhausting Trip

[00:00:46 ] Brett: Christina, how are you?

[00:00:48 ] Christina: Pretty good. Pretty good. Um, I, um, had kind of, I, well, I mean, I’m, I’m fine now. I slept a lot, which was good, but yesterday, which was, we’re recording this on a Saturday. Um, I, on [00:01:00 ] a Friday, which was our normal record date, I would have been a lot more tired if we recorded then because I was in, um, San Francisco as an in and out, like on Thursday, like I flew in, uh, in the morning and then flew out in the afternoon.

[00:01:15 ] Christina: And, um, I don’t know, uh, be, like spending more time in airports than you spend in the city that you’re visiting

[00:01:21 ] Jeff: That’s the worst.

[00:01:22 ] Christina: That kind of sucks, to be honest. So

[00:01:24 ] Jeff: sucks.

[00:01:25 ] Christina: it was a great trip and I’m really glad that I did it and it wasn’t like that bad, but it’s also one of those things where it’s like, it’s just a not a long enough flight for the whole thing to just be like, okay, in the future, if I can, I mean, in their instance, this was one of them were like, you have to do that.

[00:01:41 ] Christina: And, and I’m, I’m glad that I was at least close enough to do it, but you’re also kind of like, yeah, this, this sucks. Like I’m now more tired than I would have been if I had just, you know, gone someplace and stayed the night and flown back.

[00:01:53 ] Jeff: Right, right. I know I hate that. I hate that, uh, I’m always wrong when I make the calls. [00:02:00 ] I don’t like traveling anymore, though, is my problem. That much. I like traveling, uh, on a vacation. I do not like traveling for work anymore.

[00:02:09 ] Travel and Mental Health

[00:02:09 ] Brett: Which I think is a great segue into a mental health corner.

[00:02:12 ] Christina: Yeah, I think so.

[00:02:14 ] Brett: travel and mental health. I um, tomorrow, or Monday I leave as this podcast is released.

[00:02:22 ] Brett’s Upcoming Vegas Trip

[00:02:22 ] Brett: I will be on a plane to Las Vegas. And it’s the first time I’ve traveled. I, we did a road trip this summer, but it’s the first time I’ve like flown for work anywhere in years and Vegas is not my first choice for places to be.

[00:02:43 ] Brett: Um, but I will be flying in for a few days in Las Vegas for Oracle CloudWorld. Um,

[00:02:50 ] Christina: World? Hell yeah.

[00:02:51 ] Brett: and I’m presenting on topics that. I only know about because I researched them last week. Um, [00:03:00 ] and I have to give, well, actually like I kinda, I got out of doing most of the, like leading the presentations, but I have to be there for support and live lab instruction and everything, which is a little stressful.

[00:03:14 ] Brett: I’m a little stressed out and like.

[00:03:17 ] Brett’s Sleep Struggles

[00:03:17 ] Brett: This week I stopped sleeping again. Um, not on purpose. I, I might be manic. Hard to say because like during the day I’m pretty level headed. Um, but I do tend to get up at four in the morning and start like working on code, which is kind of manic behavior for me. Um, but I figured out.

[00:03:39 ] Brett: So like I take Three 600 milligram pills of gabapentin every night, and it’s the only way that I sleep. But then even with that, I started waking up at 2 a. m. every morning, which is, you know, not, not great, and I couldn’t fall back asleep. So what I figured out [00:04:00 ] was I could take Two of those pills at bedtime because I don’t generally have trouble falling asleep.

[00:04:05 ] Brett: I have trouble staying asleep. So I take two of those pills and that gets me through till 2 a. m. Then I take the third pill at 2 a. m. which gets me through until like 5 a. m. which is a reasonable time to get up because I’ve been going to bed at like 8 30. Oh, which is going to suck in Vegas because my flight gets in at like 11 p.

[00:04:24 ] Brett: m. on Monday. And then all of our, all of our team meals and everything are like 9 45 PM. Um, Vegas time, which I think is West

[00:04:38 ] Christina: hours behind.

[00:04:39 ] Brett: yeah.

[00:04:39 ] Christina: two hours behind you. So, so, um, like, whatever, like, so if you, uh, land, so it’ll be the equivalent of like 11pm for you.

[00:04:47 ] Brett: Yeah. That’s nuts. I, I can’t, I can’t function that late. Um, but I guess I’ll have to, I guess this is a good time to get back into like crystal meth. Um,[00:05:00 ]

[00:05:00 ] Jeff: I mean, yeah, that’s an individual decision.

[00:05:05 ] Brett: consult your doctor. Um,

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