As you may know, I go back to work on Monday. If I don't make some adjustments to my sleeping schedule immediately, I will be a complete mess on the first day back.

I went to bed at 5am last night and didn't fall asleep until probably 6am. I woke up at 3pm today. I felt amazingly refreshed for the first time in a very long while. It's 4am as I write this now and I don't feel tired at all. I need to start going to bed earlier or else Monday is gonna suck.

So common sense says that if I just go to bed one hour earlier per day starting tonight, I should be fine by Sunday. Here's the thing though... I just rented disc one of the fourth season of 24. This disc contains four episodes. I'm not sure how but it seems like I just started watching it five minutes ago and I've finished the first three "hours".

I could just go to bed and watch the last episode tomorrow morning but I'm not going to do that. I'll end this post here so that I can finish the disc and get to bed sooner.

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It's Thursday, which means my time off from work is coming to an end. After the weekend, I'm back at work on Monday.

I having neither a bad nor an exceptionally wonderful holiday. I live with my family anyways, so it's not like I'm seeing them after a lengthy time apart. They say the holidays are a time to see friends as well. Most of my friends have gone away so I've actually seen my friends less during this festive time. I did see my buddy Nate though, who returned home from his work in Japan. He's the second friend to have seen where I work, the first being Ray.

Because I haven't being go out that much, I've saving a bit of cash, which is a good thing. The savings have probably been offset by the cost of Christmas gifts unfortunately. I'm getting more sleep than when I'm working though it seems I'm still tired at times. I've been through two video games since the holidays started. I've blazed through the first two Splinter Cell games in mere days.

I still have on the schedule my 24 Season Four DVD marathon. There are seven discs in the set. The seventh disc contains an exclusive season five prequel so I guess I actually only need to rent the first six discs. Each disc contains four or five episodes though strangely, disc three has only three episodes. The thought of renting all six discs and starting my viewing at 7am (season four starts at that hour) and watching it all has crossed my mind. I wonder though how awake I'd be around hour 20 or so.

I do value this time off but to be honest, the prospect of returning to work on Monday doesn't seem so scary as it might to other people. Oh sure, I'll miss sleeping in until noon but after a few more days of this, I'll be ready to get back into my old routine.

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The summer before grad school I used to go on hikes quite frequently. One trail led from my parents' house in Coquitlam all the way up Burnaby Mountain to SFU. Another favourite of mine was the trail that encircled Buntzen Lake in Port Moody. It says it takes 4-5 hours to finish the hike but I can usually do it in two and I don't think I'm going that fast. The elevation change is about 100m which doesn't seem much but believe me, it's a workout.

I used to do this hike about twice a week for about three months during the summer of 2002. I stopped visiting the Buntzen Lake area once I started school again. Today, for the first time since then, I did the hike around the lake.

Three years is a longtime to be away from something but the trail is exactly as I remembered it. Even the same logs which served as landmarks along the trail were precisely where I thought they would be. As I walked through the familiar forest, it was interesting to think I had returned three years later with a lot more living underneath my belt. I had met a lot of people, learned a thing or two, and acheived a few life goals. The trees were still green though and the climbs just as tough.

I took a few pictures with my camera if you're interested. The piece of metal on the ground is from one of my hiking shoes. Half way through the hike, it just fell out from the sole. Also be sure to look for the floating and suspension bridges which are located at the opposite ends of the lake.

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