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On Fri, 5/2/14, shadow@shadowgard.com <shadow@shadowgard.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] On the testing bandwagon...
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, May 2, 2014, 11:41 PM

 On 2 May 2014 at 3:11,
 Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:

 > p.s. I worked 'graveyard' for
 almost 30 years. As a result it's much
 > harder for me to sleep at night than
 during the day but I rarely
 > sleep more
 than 4-5 hours at once (sometimes only three). But I do
 > find that I need more than that much sleep
 in a 24 hour period.
 > Hence there's
 almost always more than than one 'sleeping cycle'
 per
 > 24 hour period.

 Actually, human sleeping
 cycles before artificial light (decent
 light) was two sleeping periods a night with a
 period of activity in
 between.

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Interesting, this sounds like something I could use.

Could you elaborate with some more details?

What could they be doing in the middle of the night w/ no decent lighting?

It also strike me that looking at the 'bushmen' of the Kalahari Desert could be interesting.
I could see where they might be taking a lengthy nap in the afternoon during the high heat of the day.

p.s. when Dad was still on active duty (USAF pilot) we spent some time in Spain. This was back in the '60's & it took a while for us to get used to the 'siesta' culture (we lived in a hotel in Madrid). The entire city would shut down in the early afternoon & then come back to life much later in the day. I still remember cruising around w/ the family in taxi our 1st night there trying to find a restaurant that opened before 8PM! Later on I worked one summer at a Furr's Cafeteria. In order to get more hours I worked a split-shift. I would come in at 1100 & leave (so-called lunch break) at 1400, & then come back at 1700 & leave at 2200.