Anyone who can just lay down and actually get a "good nights sleep" in the middle of the afternoon is a better person than I am. When I was on reserve, it was always tough getting the right amount of sleep. Come to think of it, when I was flying international, it was still tough getting proper sleep. However, that said, I always felt that my first priority was to get rested for the next leg. My "off" time was always arranged around getting proper rest, so that I could show up for the next leg, rested as best as I could be. It was a self-preservation thing. I always wondered how the guys who lived in domicile could get good sleep, before showing at 0200 for a flight. I knew they were out playing golf, or going to the movies, or taking the wife out to dinner, when they should have been sleeping. I suspect that if I lived in base, I'd have done the same thing. It's gotta be tough.

JJ