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

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon Apr 5 06:28:46 1999

At 17:23 01/04/99 +0100, Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com wrote:

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

Me too (referring to myself of course).

>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?

Well, I used to be in the "no point in getting up before noon" computer
group, now I'm in the 7am start, 11pm finish crowd. Why? FOD/FOG (FOD =
Fear of Death, FOG = Fear of God). It's amazing what you can do when your
cardiologist points out that heart attacks are inherited and that you've
reached "the age". I now get up and gym three days a week and swim a couple
of others. If I could find a hamfest in Melbourne I could be one of those
there early...

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