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

From: Christian Fandt <cfandt_at_netsync.net>
Date: Thu Apr 1 16:04:05 1999

Upon the date 05:23 PM 4/1/99 +0100, Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com said something
like:
>
>
>> 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?

No, my sked is the same. However, my brain locks up around 9PM. My wife,
however, gets up at 04:30 and is out the door to work at 05:25.

Wish there were more hours in a day and my body would last longer in a day :-/

Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
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Received on Thu Apr 01 1999 - 16:04:05 BST

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