| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, January 04, 2026 - 04:47 am: Edit |
Here I am, online at 3:44am Texas time, where I am. I have suffered from non-24 for decades. I sleep until I wake up and work until I fall asleep. The problem is trying to make that match going to the office at the same time every day or getting to appointments on time. It gets ugly. These long weekends get really bad. I seem to run on a 30-hour day, 25 hours awake and five hours asleep and during that 25 if I lay back in my recliner and read or watch TV I quickly fall asleep but only for a few minutes. Next life I gotta do different. Maybe I'll be reincarnated as an owl. I can remember a time that someone claimed it proved I was an evil person because I got on the BBS when he was asleep. He was not joking. He actually thought it proved something. I guess what it proves is that if you abuse your body with round the clock work you pay the price.
| By Eddie E Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Sunday, January 04, 2026 - 05:47 am: Edit |
Your not the only one up late tonight
| By Stephen G. Parry (Mutant) on Sunday, January 04, 2026 - 08:56 am: Edit |
I know your pain. I have struggled since teenage years with sleeping out of sync with the real world. My day job is teaching so I have to be up early most days, but during vacations my body clock drifts anything up to 8 hours, and during heavy marking periods, I end up averaging three hours sleep a night.
I exist on the Autism Spectrum, and those of us who do often have sleep disorders. All of my four children do too. My youngest (28) struggles with an almost completely random sleep pattern.
I use to struggle with sleep quality too - I often wake up feeling as tired as when I went to bed. This was eventually identified as a form of restless leg syndrome. The meds I take can be very effective, but I get resistant to the benefits and have to change every few years. Stress of course makes the symptoms worse.
All this has blighted my working life.
| By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, January 04, 2026 - 10:39 am: Edit |
I'm right there with you on the sleep cycle problems, sadly.
| By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, January 04, 2026 - 12:55 pm: Edit |
I worked rotating shifts most of my military career and then worked straight night shift for fourteen years. My body still want to flip over to going to bed at 2-3 AM and get up between 10 and noon any time I have extended time off. Hate to think what I'm going to do after I retire.
Garth L. Getgen
| By Matthew Lawson (Mglawson) on Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 12:35 pm: Edit |
Hey SVC,
I tried to email you a higher resolution cover, but I got a mailer-daemon saying "user over quota". Is there another email I should try.
Matt
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 07:32 pm: Edit |
Try sending it to Sales@startfleetgames.com or to graphics@starfleetgames.com
| By Matthew Lawson (Mglawson) on Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 08:07 pm: Edit |
Sent it again to both!
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 04:56 pm: Edit |
Yesterday I was declared permanently handicapped by a medical review board, which means I trade in my temporary (recover from broken hip) red handicapped parking pass for a lifetime blue pass. I am not sure that this is a thing to celebrate.
| By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 06:11 pm: Edit |
It means less paperwork getting the new ones latter
| By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 07:19 pm: Edit |
For what it's worth, Steve, I'm right there with you in the permanent tag club (my right kneecap considers the whole "staying in the vertical groove" thing to be laughably optional).
| By John L Stiff (Tarkin22180) on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 02:37 pm: Edit |
It is a practicality. My late mom had one after her hip replacement surgery. She loved to drive but had a hard time walking. Getting her closer to a store/restaurant was a good thing. Not just for her, but for all of us.
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