>a lot of noise or music going on.

Yay, someone else who gets destroyed by music. I thought I was the only one. I was told by a boss once upon a time to "put on earphones", but he didn't like the protective earwear I brought in (they were from home depot for using loud machines) and was unsympathetic to the fact music really makes me not do well at coding.

>This is the most valuable part of my day because it acts like a shutdown script for my mind.

You know what, I did not realize how the reading could actually be helping there. I like long series of works that are interconnected because they're typically much longer than even classics. The 1632 series is excellent and long, for that reason.

>Try to keep it to 8 hours per day.

Do you mean at least 8? At most 8? Exactly 8?