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Post by paulf on Jan 29, 2020 12:42:51 GMT -5
Unless I have an appointment like a haircut scheduled for 8:30 AM once per month or a phone call (doggone robos at 9:00AM) I could sleep until 10:30 or noon every day. I do read often into the wee hours like 2 or 3 AM, but I love sleeping in. After 50 years of getting up at sunup or earlier I am trying to be up at the crack of 11.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jan 29, 2020 13:53:36 GMT -5
I follow similar hours. I wake up about every 4 hour anyway but the last time in the morning is sometime between 8:30 and 9:30. I then reach over and pick up my phone to check emails, scan my forums etc. Friday is an exception, I meet some other retirees from my former job for breakfast at 8.
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Post by paquebot on Jan 29, 2020 17:15:54 GMT -5
There is no clock in my bedroom and have not worn a watch in at least 10 years. I go to bed when I want, get up when I want. and nap when I want, just as Nature intended.
Martin
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Post by september on Jan 29, 2020 17:49:42 GMT -5
Have been programmed to keep waking up at 5-5:30 after many years of working. But I usually go back to sleep til around 7AM and may read in bed til around 8AM. Staying in bed after 8AM feels like I am wasting the day, since I get much more done before noon. Afternoons, I need a nap around 3PM -- love my naps!
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Post by farmerjack41 on Jan 29, 2020 19:29:21 GMT -5
Usually up at 6:00. Or somewhere close to that. Now with a new pup in the house that is about right to get him out for potty break.
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 29, 2020 19:46:42 GMT -5
Not sure as i'm not retired as of yet...
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Post by spike on Jan 29, 2020 20:09:22 GMT -5
Well last night I went to bed at 4am and was up at 10:30am. No need for a fancy schedule right now. But come planting time, that will change drastically.
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Post by tallpines on Jan 29, 2020 20:15:13 GMT -5
Wake up about 7:30. Quick bathroom run. Back under the warm covers for another 60 - 90 minutes of social media and computer games ....
Definitely NOT a morning person!
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Post by paquebot on Jan 29, 2020 21:02:34 GMT -5
I think that there are certain times in your life that "programs' the rest of it. First 20 years of my life were "normal" for sleep patterns. Then 3 years of something that seldom exists now, swing shift. 8-4, 4-12, and 12-8. I'd lose lose 10 pounds on the 12-8 shift and take two weeks to gain it back. Industry attitudes changed for the workers and I spent about 8 years on 4-12 shift. Supper was at 1AM. Became a night person and never been able to change. And that was back in the 1960s! Left what was a chance at big future as I would see my children on Monday morning and not again until Saturday.
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Post by bestofour on Jan 30, 2020 0:18:52 GMT -5
I'm a morning person waking around 7. Then I want to take a nap around 4 then stay up until 1 or 2am.
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 30, 2020 7:48:42 GMT -5
I got up at 5:45 am for 20 years and when I retired I got up whenever I felt like it but I seem to wake up without an alarm at 7:30 every morning.I am usually in bed between 10-11 pm so I am not up as late as some of you. No naps unless I am sick or unusually tired for some reason.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 14:32:57 GMT -5
I pretty much do as Paquebot does, up when I wake up, nap or sleep when I am tired. Still have a hard time sleeping nights some after so many years working swings and graveyards.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 15:21:43 GMT -5
When I was working and raising family the schedule was fixed. Up at six, breakfast, work at 8, home at 5, lights out at ten, period. Weekends varied a little depending on where we were and what we were doing.
I stayed with this schedule in retirement for many years, but then the wife became ill and we did what we had to do---very irregular.
Now I am seldom up before 6:30 and often have no breakfast until 8:00. Bedtime is still ten PM unless the wife is gone. If she is away I may sit up on the net for a couple of hours extra.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jan 30, 2020 18:56:51 GMT -5
Well last night I went to bed at 4am and was up at 10:30am. No need for a fancy schedule right now. But come planting time, that will change drastically. Holy cow! I'm getting up for the day around 4:00 am, and some days my work day is over by 10:30 am.
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Post by bestofour on Jan 31, 2020 20:26:51 GMT -5
ladymarmalade, when I had to get up early like that I needed to be in bed by 10.
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 31, 2020 22:45:13 GMT -5
I'm getting up for the day around 4:00 am I can not even imagine doing that!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 1, 2020 9:06:46 GMT -5
Most days we have to get our youngest Granddaughter to the School bus so I get up at 6am. On those days, an Afternoon nap is needed.
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Post by spacecase0 on Feb 2, 2020 21:50:34 GMT -5
I have seen timezones where the sun is showing itself at a bit before 4am that never happens where I live. but I do wonder how well things compare with numbers...
so, I wake up at sunrise give or take an hour "retired" at 39 years old 8 years ago with very little money alarms are quite annoying, have used one about 5 times in 8 years. civilization should not be set up to require them.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 2, 2020 23:00:05 GMT -5
spacecase0, I think I've asked before but I forgot - where do you live? Sounds like you've had an interesting life. ladymarmalade, do you take a nap when you get home?
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Post by ladymarmalade on Feb 3, 2020 5:47:35 GMT -5
spacecase0, I think I've asked before but I forgot - where do you live? Sounds like you've had an interesting life. ladymarmalade, do you take a nap when you get home? Nope. I am not a napper. I drink a fair amount of coffee and hot tea to keep myself going most days. I do go to bed early on the nights I'm not running DS around, and sleeping until 7:30 on the weekend is a great deal of sleeping in, so it all works out.
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Post by spacecase0 on Feb 3, 2020 23:07:33 GMT -5
spacecase0, I think I've asked before but I forgot - where do you live? Sounds like you've had an interesting life. ladymarmalade, do you take a nap when you get home? interesting, sort of like that Chinese curse "may you lead an interesting life" currently live near to the geographical center of california, and no plans to move anytime soon. average last frost day is tax day (4-15), first frost of the year is usually in november typical lowest low in winter is 20F but can be single digit rarely. typical high in the summer is 105, but 115 happens some years.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 3, 2020 23:57:01 GMT -5
spacecase0, gosh hope I didn't put a curse on you. Speaking of which, my friend went with me to Jamaica when my youngest daughter got married. We did as we were told over and over NOT to do and walked off the resort, down the street a little way, to a place that looked like a perpetual yard sale. In one tent my friend looked at several long scarves (the kind that women wear draped around their hips) and when she didn't buy one the proprietor put a curse on her. True story.
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Post by reubent on Feb 8, 2020 21:57:51 GMT -5
Not retired, won't do that till I find rest under the sod. But since I work on my own time instead of someone elses, I usually stay up too late, wake up too early, read and hit the puter, then close to dawn get back in for another hour or two. But it's always subject to change. Like deciding to turn in earlier and not take that morning nap, which is what I need to do. An if I run too short of sleep at night and get to feeling sleepy later in the day, lay down and nap then. That's more in the summer when the days are long. I'm gonna need a screen shelter in the shade up in the growin area, The bugs can get bothersome and interfere with rest.
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