Rise and Shine

busterb · 07-31-2005, 07:32 PM

Yep! for years I got up at 4:30 am To get ready for work at seven, but I'm a slow starter. After 12 years of no work I still wake to pee close to 4:30. Then I go back to sleep and get up when I want to. But with back and hip aches from staying in bed too long. Once I worked offshore the midnight to noon shift, talk about driving a wife nutts when I got home. She's ready for bed and I'm just waking up and ready to go. Bye Honey! At least she paid for 1/2 the divorce. What a deal.

LCanal · 08-02-2005, 05:19 AM

I worked on ships for a while and we used to work 4 on - 8 off. So getting anymore than 6 to 6 1/2 straight was impossible. I'm not a morning person and have a hard time getting up if it's still dark outside. Also one has to have a reason to get up.
When in Bangkok I live above a bar. I can confirm that if one goes to bed inebriated at 2 - 2.30am almost everyday it's difficult to surface much before 10.00am. There was a bar owner in Phuket once who started putting the shutters on the bar at 5.00pm. When asked why, he didn't realize it was not 5.00am

Troubleshooter · 08-02-2005, 08:27 AM

Everytime a sleep thread comes up I'm reminded of how we did things on the boat. As bizarre as it may sound it works really well.

18 hour cycles with six on watch, six working and six in the rack.You end up sleeping plenty and in a week you get ten six hour sleep cycles. That is if nothing comes up, like drills, or battlestations...

SouthOfNoNorth · 08-02-2005, 09:27 AM

with me, my morning condition almost always depends on my mental attitude about the day. if i have something interesting to look forward to, even after being up drinking until 3 on a sunday night, i can jump out of bed. it's the in between days that kill me. if you know you're just going to have to "ride the day out" those days are the worst. i usually go out for drinks on thursday nights and don't get too much sleep, but it doesn't matter because fridays in the office are always easy days. i have also learned the fine art of the after work nap - used to perpetuate the stay out late/get up early for work drudgery cycle.

07-31-2005, 07:32 PM	#1
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Yep! for years I got up at 4:30 am To get ready for work at seven, but I'm a slow starter. After 12 years of no work I still wake to pee close to 4:30. Then I go back to sleep and get up when I want to. But with back and hip aches from staying in bed too long. Once I worked offshore the midnight to noon shift, talk about driving a wife nutts when I got home. She's ready for bed and I'm just waking up and ready to go. Bye Honey! At least she paid for 1/2 the divorce. What a deal. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

08-02-2005, 05:19 AM	#2
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	I worked on ships for a while and we used to work 4 on - 8 off. So getting anymore than 6 to 6 1/2 straight was impossible. I'm not a morning person and have a hard time getting up if it's still dark outside. Also one has to have a reason to get up. When in Bangkok I live above a bar. I can confirm that if one goes to bed inebriated at 2 - 2.30am almost everyday it's difficult to surface much before 10.00am. There was a bar owner in Phuket once who started putting the shutters on the bar at 5.00pm. When asked why, he didn't realize it was not 5.00am __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

08-02-2005, 08:27 AM	#3
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Everytime a sleep thread comes up I'm reminded of how we did things on the boat. As bizarre as it may sound it works really well. 18 hour cycles with six on watch, six working and six in the rack.You end up sleeping plenty and in a week you get ten six hour sleep cycles. That is if nothing comes up, like drills, or battlestations... __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

08-02-2005, 09:27 AM	#4
SouthOfNoNorth Colloquialist Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 77	with me, my morning condition almost always depends on my mental attitude about the day. if i have something interesting to look forward to, even after being up drinking until 3 on a sunday night, i can jump out of bed. it's the in between days that kill me. if you know you're just going to have to "ride the day out" those days are the worst. i usually go out for drinks on thursday nights and don't get too much sleep, but it doesn't matter because fridays in the office are always easy days. i have also learned the fine art of the after work nap - used to perpetuate the stay out late/get up early for work drudgery cycle. __________________ Don't you worry about the day-glo orange life preserver, it won't save you. Swim for the shores just as fast as you're able.....

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