regmcfly wrote:

I've got 50 11 year olds visiting High school for the first time today so shove it. This is Warfare.

Is that the size of your year groups, Reg?

I had a long morning of gymnastics and parachute games with the reception class.
Much coffee was needed. Laughed my tits off when one kid tried a forward roll and basically launched himself forwards onto his face

Wookienopants wrote:

Lucky you. Got ALOT to do today.

Could, not should- I had to walk 2.5 miles to work and navigate a live network, pulling out wires, plugging some in, creating network rules, SSL keys, imaging Blender rendering slaves, testing the outside could see the inside, destroy it all and rebuild, learn about some tech I've not used before and design an implementation to roll out for Friday. Off work tomorrow but in uni. Rock and roll.

I should go bed right now, but it's not a must so I won't.

Eurgh.

As is my reverse life. I am now in bed. Can not function for rest of evening

Stay in bed as long as you need today tempy, you'll need your energy tonight.

I set my alarm for 6 today to go for a swim before work, I didn't get out of bed until gone 8

I have a 10am lecture tomorrow, tonight is going to be dangerous

Can't remember if I mentioned this in a previous post in this thread, but I'm beginning to think that I don't need as much sleep as I believed.

7 hours is the sweet spot for me. If you can force yourself to get up when you first wake up naturally (before alarm is quite common for me), you'll feel better all day. At least, I do.

If it helps, I woke up at 6:15, alarm was set for 6:30. Then I just hit snooze until just gone 8 like an absolute twat.

My first alarm goes off at 3am and I tag in for the wife for baby overwatch duties, where I may catch another hour or two of snoozing. Next alarm is 6am and have to tag back then get up, walk dog and drive to work on dark country roads.
Like an addicted fuckwit, I've been playing Dying Light til about 10 or 11pm each night, so some days I'm functioning on maybe 5 hours sleep. About one night a week I'll be shattered and head straight to bed after baby storytime and am asleep by 9pm though.

djchump wrote:

My first alarm goes off at 3am and I tag in for the wife for baby overwatch duties, where I may catch another hour or two of snoozing. Next alarm is 6am and have to tag back then get up, walk dog and drive to work on dark country roads. Like an addicted fuckwit, I've been playing Dying Light til about 10 or 11pm each night, so some days I'm functioning on maybe 5 hours sleep. About one night a week I'll be shattered and head straight to bed after baby storytime and am asleep by 9pm though.

Shiftwork for the baby is hard, man, I respect what you're doing. How old, can I ask? My boy's one and half and we have to wake him up at weekends because he loves sleeping now, but in the first few months it was as you described, I was in a twilight zone of work, insomnia and gaming at strange times to stay awake for the baby.

@Funk Yeah man we have to or I'd never see him! he'll easily go 7pm till 11am which is ridiculous. Then in the week I don't see much of him. My other half doesn't work on Wednesdays, so leaving them both sleeping soundly once a week like today is a bitch. On the other weekdays, at 8am when I get up, other half has had a shower and is doing her makeup etc. By the time I'm showered and ready to leave at half past, still asleep.

I guess his father is something of a Trashbaby of the OP's kin though, before I had to set an alarm for the sole purpose of getting money, I slept 2-4am till 11-2pm. If my life suddenly reset I'm sure I'd find that natural again.

Geez a year and a half already Spec. How time flies.

What book you reading T?

fullspectrum wrote:

Shiftwork for the baby is hard, man, I respect what you're doing. How old, can I ask?

She's 9 months and the sleep is starting to slowly settle down with the weaning and solids (or just as she grows up).

fullspectrum wrote:

My boy's one and half and we have to wake him up at weekends because he loves sleeping now, but in the first few months it was as you described, I was in a twilight zone of work, insomnia and gaming at strange times to stay awake for the baby.

Yeah, a lot of the advice seems to be that she'll just grow out of it so we're just getting on with getting on

I am so hungover today that I got up at about 6am, and then again at about 8am, and 9am, but still didn't get to my lecture at 10am because the world is teetering on the brink of disaster. Still, I feel serviceable now.

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Geez a year and a half already Spec. How time flies. What book you reading T?

V. by Pynchon, because I have a week until I need to read more renaissance bullshit.

I should know better than drinking at the same pace as an Army Guy and a Professional Good Time Haver