For some mysterious and ridiculous reason, our alarm is set for 6:30am yet every day the cats wake us up at 5:30am. They haven't eaten in a few hours and they are pretty clearly starving to death. I'm not sure why we don't just set the alarm earlier.
@metageist I trained my cats to understand that my wake-up time does not equal their breakfast time. Once they learned that, there was no point in them waking me up. They'll let me sleep as late as I want.
Of course, they always have a bowl of dry food available, the canned food is what they used to wake me up for.
@metageist I'm not sure why you don't leave a big bowl of dry food out. I free food. I have lots of cats for many years and yeah, you will get a couple fattys, so the fuck what. Most of them don't overeat. I don't like feeling starving, I won't do that to anything in my care. Anyways just saying. Leave a bowl of food out. Problem solved, for you and your cats.
@mick That was my first thought as well. Just leave a bowl of food out. It shouldn't cause them to get fat because there are many cats out there with bowls of food available 24 hours a day that aren't fat. I guess it makes a difference if it's the wet or dry food. Dry food 24 hours a day, wet food once or twice a day.
@mick@ChunkyBitz@cengland0 I used to do that, before one of the cats became a complicated old man cat that can only eat wet food with special supplements mixed in. I'm thinking about getting one of those automated feeders for wet food, or just give myself an excuse to build a complicated and over-engineered robot solution.
@metageist Yeah, my cat only recently switched to canned food after a lifetime of dry, and she still lets me sleep as late as I can. (Which is 7 on weekdays and 9:30 on weekends.)
After many years working at night in the music business, and then for tech firms, anything before 11AM better be pretty fucking important for me to get up that early. I've gotten up at 12:30PM for the past ten years, with a very few exceptions.
But even on nights off, I'm up till 4 or 5AM. My family considers me....odd.
@dave If only the little one (9) is awake, then it's fine. But if the teenager is awake, no dice. They hit defcon 1 in an instant. Luckily, he is never awake before noon.
I'm absolutely useless if I get less than 8 hours of sleep. I function best on 10-12 hours. Yet I have a lot of trouble falling asleep. :((( I'm built for 30-hour days.
@Shamburglar I wake up at 4am eastern every weekday and I have scored FUKUs. I have had to change my sleep patterns to be compatible with meh.
I accomplish this by taking naps in the middle of the day and being in my office for 11 hours instead of 8 or 9 and then taking another nap immediately after work. It is possible if you really want to get a FUKU.
@Shamburglar So you are one of the "before 5 AM" crowd. I get up at either 5:00 or 5:40, depending on the day, and I thought that is band enough. 0400 reminds me of my bad old days when I was an intern on a surgical service. Even thinking about it now gives me the willies.
I start work at 06:00 so I'm up a little more than an hour before that. There's no reason to be up that early, it's just a method of tormenting us. I dream of a job that allows me to wake with the sun, and I am refreshed and actually productive. But hey, the corp. wants angry, sleepy people with marginal productivity, who am I to argue?
@mfladd But first the Jersey Devil should need to find Bigfoot, and I doubt that would happen. And I found your goat badge. Look, even your goats are tiny and non-threatening.
@editorkid During the week? Never. On the weekend? Little game I like to call 'whack snooze until I roll a natural 20.'
When I was in college, I had the best alarm clock. Had a nap timer that went up to two hours, and snooze was adjustable up to a half hour. I slept soooo much.
I have to admit I'm too OCD to use snooze. The alarm rang, I'm up. (I actually have a playlist of 60 or 70 albums I use for weekdays. I don't even remember how long ago I discovered that music I knew I'd like was better than ringers, buzzers, or news-talkers. The only annoying thing is that shuffle-by-album will sometimes ignore something for weeks and then play it over and over and over.)
@editorkid I leave setting alarms to my fiancée. She usually hits snooze 5 or 6 times but that's fine with me because I would be doing the same damn thing.
@editorkid I despise the snooze button. I'm a very light sleeper so once the alarm goes off I can't go back to sleep. A previous SO of mine used to get up an hour before me every day and would hit snooze 2-4 times every morning. It drove me absolutely nuts.
@MEHcus I know, right? I'm the same from the opposite direction... I'm a very deep sleeper, so once I'm up, fuck it, I'm up. I just don't see the benefit of the alarm going off four extra times.
Up at 5:20 weekdays. Usually not asleep until between 12:30 - 1. I don't sleep nearly as much as I should (or could.) Total night owl, up normally until 2 or 3 Friday and Saturday nights. Sleep til 11 or 12. I truly hate the morning, I just like getting paid.
@cinoclav ditto to pretty much this whole post Most workdays start @6:30a for me, so alarms set for 4,4:30, and 5am. and many days i;m still running out the door at 6:15, to make the 10(or so depending on trains and damn red lights) min drive.... I pine for the rare occasion i get out the door early enough to stop for Coffee on my way in. otherwise it's a 2 hr wait until my first break. on my days off, unless i have specific plans to set an alarm for, you'd be damn lucky to see me before 1 or 2 in the afternoon. (I've always naturally been a night owl, and worked 3rds for many, many years.)
When I started work at 6:00 am, I used to do the first two hours in my sleep. Made it easier to do the 10-hour shifts. May as well get paid for sleeping.
When there is wood
The question implies that one sleeps.
Between 6 and 7 am when working. Otherwise, between 9 and 10 am
For some mysterious and ridiculous reason, our alarm is set for 6:30am yet every day the cats wake us up at 5:30am. They haven't eaten in a few hours and they are pretty clearly starving to death. I'm not sure why we don't just set the alarm earlier.
@metageist Pets make the best alarms...you can't just hit snooze.
@metageist I trained my cats to understand that my wake-up time does not equal their breakfast time. Once they learned that, there was no point in them waking me up. They'll let me sleep as late as I want.
Of course, they always have a bowl of dry food available, the canned food is what they used to wake me up for.
@metageist I'm not sure why you don't leave a big bowl of dry food out. I free food. I have lots of cats for many years and yeah, you will get a couple fattys, so the fuck what. Most of them don't overeat. I don't like feeling starving, I won't do that to anything in my care. Anyways just saying. Leave a bowl of food out. Problem solved, for you and your cats.
@mick That was my first thought as well. Just leave a bowl of food out. It shouldn't cause them to get fat because there are many cats out there with bowls of food available 24 hours a day that aren't fat. I guess it makes a difference if it's the wet or dry food. Dry food 24 hours a day, wet food once or twice a day.
@mick @ChunkyBitz @cengland0 I used to do that, before one of the cats became a complicated old man cat that can only eat wet food with special supplements mixed in. I'm thinking about getting one of those automated feeders for wet food, or just give myself an excuse to build a complicated and over-engineered robot solution.
@metageist Yeah, my cat only recently switched to canned food after a lifetime of dry, and she still lets me sleep as late as I can. (Which is 7 on weekdays and 9:30 on weekends.)
@metageist Like this one?
9:30. Swing shift life.
After many years working at night in the music business, and then for tech firms, anything before 11AM better be pretty fucking important for me to get up that early. I've gotten up at 12:30PM for the past ten years, with a very few exceptions.
But even on nights off, I'm up till 4 or 5AM. My family considers me....odd.
5:20 on gym days, 6:20 on other work days, 7:30 on weekends (damn dogs).
@emilyap Damn dogs who hate gym days.
@emilyap Don't forget leg day!
Asleep around 1, up by 7-730 in the summer and 6 during the school months. Who needs sleep.
I wake up about an hour after I get to work.
On my days off, I try to be up by the crack o' noon.
Recently I'm becoming more and more unintentionally nocturnal so... Like 11am
Obvious answer: when my kids do. (which is usually before I want to)
@mfladd Having them get old enough that they don't wake you up is fantastic.
@jaremelz When does that happen? I'm thinking 18-20.
@dave If only the little one (9) is awake, then it's fine. But if the teenager is awake, no dice. They hit defcon 1 in an instant. Luckily, he is never awake before noon.
@dave They have to move out first, otherwise the 7:23am school bus still means slammed doors, etc.
I'm absolutely useless if I get less than 8 hours of sleep. I function best on 10-12 hours. Yet I have a lot of trouble falling asleep. :((( I'm built for 30-hour days.
12pm everyday except saturdays is 4am.
I wake up at 0400 Tuesday through Saturday, gotta be at work by 0500. No fuku for me.
@Shamburglar I wake up at 4am eastern every weekday and I have scored FUKUs. I have had to change my sleep patterns to be compatible with meh.
I accomplish this by taking naps in the middle of the day and being in my office for 11 hours instead of 8 or 9 and then taking another nap immediately after work. It is possible if you really want to get a FUKU.
@cengland0 Nooooope. Not happening. I already work a 12-14 hour day (occasionally a 16). I guess I just don't want it enough.
A nap after I get home from work is called "going the fuck to sleep."
Though the idea of taking a nap in my office and ignoring the pleas of my employees interests me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
@cengland0 or just move to the west coast.. #nomorenoreasters #9pmfuku
@Shamburglar So you are one of the "before 5 AM" crowd. I get up at either 5:00 or 5:40, depending on the day, and I thought that is band enough. 0400 reminds me of my bad old days when I was an intern on a surgical service. Even thinking about it now gives me the willies.
Where are the pm options?
@spitfire6006006 It's the one that say "After 11am." So few people have selected that so it didn't make sense to expand it into more time categories.
I start work at 06:00 so I'm up a little more than an hour before that. There's no reason to be up that early, it's just a method of tormenting us. I dream of a job that allows me to wake with the sun, and I am refreshed and actually productive. But hey, the corp. wants angry, sleepy people with marginal productivity, who am I to argue?
Wait. Were we supposed to answer from the perspective of our local time zone or Eastern.
@TerriblyHuang Is there any other time zone beside Eastern? (perpetuating the east - west war)
@mfladd I'm ignoring you.
@jaremelz Ignore all you want but as goat I will bring this war to new levels. And you are to blame.
@mfladd Go ahead and throw blame at me, puddinpop, your time is fast approaching.
@jaremelz you should be
oooh..I may to use this one later.
@mfladd I see you've found video of me in the morning before I've had my coffee.
@jaremelz see I was picturing more like this.
@mfladd No, really it's all about the despair for all I rule. But then the Sasquatch comes to the rescue. West coast rules!
@jaremelz Great pic! But the Jersey Devil would kick Bigfoot's ass.
@mfladd But first the Jersey Devil should need to find Bigfoot, and I doubt that would happen. And I found your goat badge. Look, even your goats are tiny and non-threatening.
@jaremelz I think this will be mine.
OK, next question... who uses snooze? How long or how many times?
@editorkid During the week? Never. On the weekend? Little game I like to call 'whack snooze until I roll a natural 20.'
When I was in college, I had the best alarm clock. Had a nap timer that went up to two hours, and snooze was adjustable up to a half hour. I slept soooo much.
@editorkid Once for an extra five minutes. I get really cranky if I don't get my snooze.
I have to admit I'm too OCD to use snooze. The alarm rang, I'm up. (I actually have a playlist of 60 or 70 albums I use for weekdays. I don't even remember how long ago I discovered that music I knew I'd like was better than ringers, buzzers, or news-talkers. The only annoying thing is that shuffle-by-album will sometimes ignore something for weeks and then play it over and over and over.)
@brhfl Your snooze button is a d20? I guess snooze is the ultimate saving throw...
@editorkid I leave setting alarms to my fiancée. She usually hits snooze 5 or 6 times but that's fine with me because I would be doing the same damn thing.
@editorkid I despise the snooze button. I'm a very light sleeper so once the alarm goes off I can't go back to sleep. A previous SO of mine used to get up an hour before me every day and would hit snooze 2-4 times every morning. It drove me absolutely nuts.
@MEHcus I know, right? I'm the same from the opposite direction... I'm a very deep sleeper, so once I'm up, fuck it, I'm up. I just don't see the benefit of the alarm going off four extra times.
@editorkid I think science or something like that even proved it was bad for you once upon a time ago. IDK
I wake up at 5.45 and am on the train by 6. But then I get to sleep for nearly two hours on the train, so I'm not sure if it counts…
@brhfl 4 hours of commuting sucks!
@tightwad Not so bad when it's really 4 hours of sleeping though!
Up at 5:20 weekdays. Usually not asleep until between 12:30 - 1. I don't sleep nearly as much as I should (or could.) Total night owl, up normally until 2 or 3 Friday and Saturday nights. Sleep til 11 or 12. I truly hate the morning, I just like getting paid.
@cinoclav ditto to pretty much this whole post
Most workdays start @6:30a for me, so alarms set for 4,4:30, and 5am.
and many days i;m still running out the door at 6:15, to make the 10(or so depending on trains and damn red lights) min drive.... I pine for the rare occasion i get out the door early enough to stop for Coffee on my way in. otherwise it's a 2 hr wait until my first break.
on my days off, unless i have specific plans to set an alarm for, you'd be damn lucky to see me before 1 or 2 in the afternoon.
(I've always naturally been a night owl, and worked 3rds for many, many years.)
When I started work at 6:00 am, I used to do the first two hours in my sleep. Made it easier to do the 10-hour shifts. May as well get paid for sleeping.
I'm up at 4:45am everyday to hit the gym before work. The dog is now my alarm clock. work starts at 7:00-7:30 as I have a very flexible schedule.
In the summer time, between 4:30 and 5AM. Damn east-facing bedroom windows! (Yes, we have curtains and, yes, I have a sleep mask. Still...)
4:20 am, 4 days a week.
to work out, not to blaze, fools.