Sol 1: Benchmarks

Awake: Thursday, 18th 9am - Friday 4am
Sleep: Friday 4am - Friday 1pm

I'm going to call my 28 hour days "Sols" even though a sol on mars is only 24 hours, 40 minutes. Me and Matt Damon.

Mostly, today was normal, but I wanted to set up some benchmarks. In comes humanbenchmark.com.

Reaction Time Avg	283
Reaction Time Best	250
Spacial Memory Score	27447
Numerical Memory	10
Verbal	58

(don't worry, I'll post graphs at the end)

I'm also going to take a selfie each day:

Oh, and spelling/grammatical errors will be a benchmark. Leave comments for all that you find! And let me know if you have ideas for other benchmarks. (Grant suggested the 100 yard dash.)

Other activities: stocked up on food, and worked out techniques for clapping really loudly with Grant (the techniques work for anyone, Grant just helped). Yah kinda cup one palm a little and then pop the other hand's fingers on the pocket all at once. Just the sort of thing I shouldn't be doing at 2am in the morning. #sorryJeff

Predictions for the week: I foresee having bloodshot eyes, making at least 3 new things, getting a cold by sol 5, wishing Cole Hardware was open 24/7 (aka 28/6), and having lots of fun.