I think a fun twist would be to make sure you were always fed and slept 8 hours/day/

What you might try is to go the character building group and look through the legendary builds. There is so much goodness there, it's hard not to get inspired.

Maybe it's my ignorance about what's on this site, but is there also a "combat tutorial" or some sort of how to use magic with a draugr in your face? I think it would be really useful to have a treatise on things like how to use conjuration effectively in combat, a discussion on the speed of various missile spells and their usefulness, how restoration speels take more/less time depending on their level, etc, Also talk about perks that are particularly useful and why. I've always felt that I'm under-educated on how magic works in a tactical sense.  Maybe there is a good article already, or it's just scattered about in various tips n tricks.

Two suggestions: Use an app, or a website, that lets you calculate the most expensive potions for what is in your inventory. Don't seek out ingredients, just pick up the ones you run across as you quest. It adds just a little more time, and you wind up with a ton of ingredients to put into the app. With the app, I use potions as a huge moneymaker.