OT: early rising (was: RE: Timonium Hamfest)

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Thu Apr 1 10:23:11 1999

> What is it about hamfests that cause otherwise
> sane individuals to get up at the crack of dawn?
>
> Almost every computer involved person I know who
> has any control of their work schedule:
>
> 1) Gets up after the sun has properly warmed the earth
> where they live
> 2) Eats lunch for breakfast
> 3) Eats dinner for lunch
> 4) Has Chinese delivered at 1 a.m. for dinner
> 5) Sleeps till 2 or 3 p.m. on Saturday if at all possible


Like, I imagine, most people on this list, I do not regard myself as sane.

That said, I think the morning is a sadly under-rated time of day. My alarm
clock goes off at 6 am whether I need to go to work or not. I get up any time
between 6.00 and 7.15 on work days, 6.00 and 8.00 on other days. It is not
quite random - if I have been short of sleep lately, or am in the middle of a
good book, I tend to get up later.

And I find it quite hard to do anything remotely involving the brain after 10pm.

Am I really that unusual?



Philip.
Received on Thu Apr 01 1999 - 10:23:11 BST