I've pulled night shifts, both 8's and 12's, in the military and after. The good part is that the idiots usually stay on days and don't bug you, so you can get much more done. The bad part is either sleeping or doing the normal things that must be done, since they all have to be accomplished during what are your sleeping hours.

Up until this last year I lived in the country where no one ever came by so I could sleep during the day. My old place got sold and I'm now on a main street in a small city, so I have loud motorcycles, ambulances, fire vehicles, and cop cars going loudly by all day. And my dorky neighbor decideds to have her house powerwashed by a contractor with inadequate silencing on his motorized spray apparatus.

Dave