Continuing on from [my introductory post]({{< relref "/personal/2019-09-10-28-hour-days-project.md" >}}) and [my first day]({{< relref "/personal/2019-09-12-28-hour-days-project-day-1.md" >}}) in the [28 hour system](https://m.xkcd.com/320/), I'm still carrying on with this experiment!

## Reasonable Sleep

I fell asleep pretty much when I was supposed to last night, which meant that I had a nice solid 8 hours and woke up around 10AM Friday morning to being the Uprising day. I felt a bit tired, but nothing uncharacteristic for me over the past 3 months, so I decided to launch myself straight into my projects.

# The Eternal Zine

After spending ~10 hours working on my zine yesterday, most of it fiddling with [LaTeX](https://www.latex-project.org/), I ended up with a huge level of success around 11:00 when I was finally ready to start printing! It took another two hours before I had a working example, mostly due to page layout issues when compressing a 16 page PDF into 2x A4 pages that are divided into 16x A7 sections. The final result is shown below:

![Completed zine](/img/2019-09-13-zine.jpeg)

I know that traditionally zines are one folded piece of paper or don't use professional typesetting software, but I like breaking the mold and this way I got to create something quirky and unique!

## Celebrations & Cycling

I decided to get lunch at Nando's and some time to read, along with picking up that book I forgot to buy yesterday. I've noticed I haven't been able to focus on reading without getting easily distracted for the last few months, hopefully there's something I can do to help that (and reduce my random social media time).

To top off my afternoon I jumped back on the bicycle and went around the river (15km), which brings me up to 45km in the last three days, after doing 0km since mid-June. Feeling pretty good about the exercise portion, even if my groin is crying in agony from the lack of padding on my seat.

## The Long Dark

I spent most of the evening chatting and helping people online, some shitposting too. Decided not to go out to the nightclub, so Nikki and I went over the road and read at the local pub. All of this brought us to midnight when I realised I still had 6 more hours of awake time left.

Chatting with Nikki and grabbing snacks took up some time, although I had no formal dinner. I seem to feel less bound to eating on the 28 hour day, probably because of a disconnect from the usual diurnal cycle and its links to meals. I spent a good bit of time working on a new, unpublished post for [ScorpInc](https://scorpinc.solutions/) of which I ended up feeling pretty proud. It's got a decent mix of tech and horror so I'm hoping it will be well received.

Although bed time is officially 06:00 Saturday, I moved it up till 05:00 and decided to take a 9 hour sleep (as suggested by xkcd). My mood has overall been good, some phantom itching (but less than yesterday) and feeling very accomplished with what I've got done.

## Tomorrow

The final day of the week, Hitchiker. I should get up at 14:00 Saturday, assuming the daylight streaming into the bedroom doesn't wake me up before then. I'll have until 10:00 Sunday to party. Thankfully since I'm between jobs I don't have to worry about being wrecked for work on Atom/Monday.

Hoping to maybe do the following:

* Work on project for Nikki
* [Hula Bula Bar](http://www.hulabulabar.com) for cocktails
* Write in my notebook/spellbook

Pretty short list, I might use some of the time just as leisure time.