How to create an extra Caturday every week!

What is this?

Most likely a lot of crap, but possibly ... a method to create an extra Caturday every week! That's right, an 8-day week, with 5 workdays and 3 (three) Caturdays.

Why am I interested?

Because it can be done.

Ok, how to proceed?

You will need...

a weekend
no serious plans for Saturday, but Sunday is ok
to be home around 18:00-19:00 Friday, and relaxed enough to sleep at 20:00
a nice job where you can wake up Monday 08:00 and still be on time

The weekend is, in total...

remains of Friday from 20:00 on	4h
Saturday	24h
Sunday	24h
start of Monday, before wake-up call	8h
grand total	60h

If you divide it like this... (bold = wake, italic = sleep)

...i.e. starting and ending the 60-hour period with sleep, it's interesting to see there are in fact 3 days/wake-periods now. So:

         +-------------------+
         |                   |                                                    
         | 18:00 arrive home |                                                                                
         |                   |                                                    
         | 20:00 go to bed   |                                                                              
Friday   |                   |    
---------|-------------------|       (7 hours of sleep)                                                                                                                                            
Saturday |                   |               
         | 03:00 wake up     |    +------------------------+                                              
         |                   |    |                        |                      
         |                   |    |  (11 hours of waking)  |
         |                   |    |                        |                      
         | 14:00 go to bed   |    +------------------------+                                                
         |                   |    
         |                   |       (6 hours of sleep)                                                                               
         |                   |   
         | 20:00 wake up     |    +------------------------+                                              
Saturday |                   |    |                        |                              
---------|-------------------|    |  (11 hours of waking)  |
Sunday   |                   |    |                        |                            
         | 07:00 go to bed   |    +------------------------+                                                
         |                   |   
         |                   |       (5 hours of sleep)                                                                               
         |                   |   
         | 12:00 wake up     |    +------------------------+                                              
         |                   |    |                        |                      
         |                   |    |  (10 hours of waking)  |
         |                   |    |                        |                      
         | 22:00 go to bed   |    +------------------------+                                                
Sunday   |                   |          
---------|-------------------|       (10 hours of sleep)                                                                                  
Monday   |                   |                                                          
         | 08:00 wake up     |                                                                            
         |                   |                                                    
         +-------------------+

Considerations taken:

sleep period is steadily decreased down to 5h
must end with 10 hours sleep (because I like this - YMMV)
10 hours is long enough to be experienced as a 'day'; consider e.g. a 11:00-21:00 weekend day; it counts as one

So, what will my new 3-day weekend look like?

Some things are the same, some things are radically different. You might plan in advance to make this work for you.

For reference, compare to a normal weekend day, let's say from 10:00 until 23:00 (13 hours), with 17:00 as 'halfway marker'. This may help you to imagine what wall-clock times mean in terms of experience:

Caturday #1 (Sat 03:00 - 14:00)

halfway-marker is at 09:00. This is odd, and would mean...

you wake up when it's not yet light; it would get light around 14:00, according to instinct
your day is half gone (17:00 according to instinct) when the rest of the world wakes up
you can shop and expect to find a full crowd until 23:00 at night, according to instinct
you'll be going to bed when it's most bright outside

Caturday #2 (Sat 20:00 - Sun 07:00)

halfway-marker is at 02:00. This is extremely odd, and would mean...

you wake up when it's getting dark, and it would be dark the whole day long (think 'polar night!')
your day is half gone (17:00 according to instinct) when everything's already quiet; this might stimulate sleep during mid-day
you cannot shop at all this day; however, you can have pizza/fries for breakfast!
you'll be going to bed watching the sun come up

Caturday #3 (Sun 12:00 - 22:00)

halfway-marker is at 17:00, just like a normal weekend day. No comment.

Have fun! :-)

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