[Palindrome] Night crew

[Trip Payne <trippayne bellsouth net>]

I'd like to see how likely a "night shift" is, so that we can see where 
we stand, personnel-wise.

As I mentioned before, we had no more than one or two people working on 
puzzles from about 1 to 8 AM on Saturday morning, and I'm convinced that 
was what put us well behind the top teams.  If we can get a skeleton 
crew of night owls to agree to work then, I think we can really be 
contenders this year.

My suggestion is this: that everybody stick around at the start of the 
hunt, when the theme is revealed and the initial excitement is at its 
peak.  But I think the "night crew" group should plan to sleep from, 
say, 6 PM to 1 AM (and plan their meal schedules accordingly), then come 
in fresh-eyed and eager at 1 AM.

I know it'll be tough for the night crew to go to sleep at 6 PM, 
especially with all the excitement of the hunt.  There's a huge 
temptation to believe that your adrenaline can take you straight through 
the night.  It never works, though, and we just can't have everyone 
crashing at the same time.  So bring your sleep masks and melatonin.

If you're willing to be on the night shift (all the cool kids are doing 
it!  jooooin ussss!), reply to me and NOT the whole list; after a few 
days I'll post the names of the night shift to the list.  I'm hoping we 
can get at least 10 people total -- we must have that many night owls 
(or people whose time-zone differences might make this feasible), right?

By the way, this is probably only for Friday night.  Once Saturday night 
rolls around, it seems like there are plenty of people at all hours.

-- Trip