8,760 Hours
June 2026
When I was 16 I decided to log what I was doing, every single hour of every single day, for an entire year: one cell per hour in a Google Sheet, sorted into twelve color coded categories. I recently dug 2018 back out of Google Drive. Here it is, 365 days times 24 hours, all 8,760 of them. Scroll down to go through the year.
Sleep
Games
School
Relax
Social
Productive
Family
Travel
Junk
Extracurricular
Creative
Exercise
A few tiles have a white border. Hover (or tap) one to see the photo.
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
00:00
23:00
Early February. Summer vacation. I woke up at 11:20am on average that month, and on Feb 6 I logged 14 of 24 hours as "play," my single biggest day of the year for that category.
March. School starts, and you can watch the tan column light up here and stay lit for most of the rest of the year. You can also watch my bedtime creep earlier in real time. In January and February there is a 0% chance I am asleep by midnight. By June, deep into the school year, that number is 87% (97% by 1am). July, winter break, loosens it up again, and by December summer vacation has reset the clock completely.
Mid July. Winter break in Argentina, so a week at the beach in Villa Gesell. The two five hour travel streaks on either side, July 16 and July 24, are the road trip there and back.
Late August into September: Japan. You can see exactly where. The dark blue sleep block jumps from the left edge of the row to the middle and stays there for two weeks. Buenos Aires and Tokyo are 12 hours apart, almost exactly half a day, so my schedule did not shift, it flipped: from sleeping roughly midnight to 8am, to sleeping roughly 10am to 7pm, within about a day of landing. The travel days on each end (Aug 19, 20, Sep 3, 4) all show zero hours of sleep. Four days after getting home, on Sep 8, I logged 16 hours of sleep, my biggest sleep day of the year, paying the whole jet lag debt off in one go.
December 31st. 365 rows, 365 days, all fully filled in. 16 year old me did not miss a single hour all year.
By the numbers: 3,151 hours asleep (about 8.6 a night, 36% of the year), 1,931 hours of games versus 267 hours of “productive” time (about 7 to 1, or 22% versus 3%), 39 hours of exercise for the entire year (about 6 minutes a day), and 224 hours filed under “basura,” which is Spanish for trash.