Are you a morning person or a night owl?

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[pandr32]

1. I'm all for the daylight!

I love mornings, quiet, and coffee before the day's activities begin. Having kids changed me. Before them I was a night owl and a great view to me was the city nightscape.

[Turbineguy]

3. Morning

Surly to bed, surly to rise.

[pandr32]

8. So you are a grumpy guy?

I'm your opposite.

[Dave in VA]

2. I'm neither

I have a plaque someone gave me that states, I'm not a early bird or a night owl. I am some form of a permanently exhausted pigeon."

Author unknown

😴

[stopdiggin]

4. what is this 'morning' thing to which you refer .. ?

I don't think that happens where I live. Must be only in certain parts of the country ...

[AZJonnie]

5. HAH! That's one of my jokes too!

Someone says they were up at 5am I'll quip "so, that's an actual time that exists? 5AM? I wouldn't know".

And there's my answer to the OP. The only reason I actually know early morning hours exist is because I've been "still up" then

[patphil]

9. I've read about it in books. They say it's real, but I'm not convinced.

[hlthe2b]

6. Well, I am up typically by 3:30AM and out the door before 5AM. In bed by 8 when possible... I consider that morning...

But all my Fitbit and Apple Watch apps apparently think that makes me a night owl? What say the crowd on the thread?

[lastlib]

7. Yes.

It's the middle of the day that drives me nuts.

[flying_wahini]

10. Night owl

Need to work on my sleeping schedule this year.

[rsdsharp]

11. I hate mornings. I used to have to get up at 4:00-4:30 AM.

I’m still catching up on sleep.

[Raven123]

12. Lark here.

[doc03]

13. Used to be a night owl, now at 77 I am

both.

[Niagara]

14. I'm neither a morning person or night owl

On my most days I'm more like a intermediate bear chronotype.

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/chronotypes


I work morning to afternoon shifts but I never feel rested, like ever.


I feel most awake in the afternoons.


I'm exhausted by the time 6pm, 7pm, 8pm rolls around. The fact that it turns pitch black outside at 4:30pm doesn't not help me at all.


Sometimes it doesn't matter how exhausted I am, I wake up at weird hours (generally midnight to 4am) and I have a hell of a time trying to get back to sleep.


Then I get up to go to work and my brain clunks out on me because I didn't get 8 to 9 hours of sleep that I need to function.


Bah Humbug.

[LogDog75]

15. Definitely a night owl

I like to sleep-in in the morning and get up around 8:30 - 9:00 in the morning after going to bed around midnight. When I was working, I'd get up at 6 am and I'd be tired during the morning and as the afternoon progressed I'd find I had more energy to work. Since I retired many years ago, I'll watch some TV or read a book until bedtime.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. Night Owl. Worked in IT for many many years and the times we often had available to bring IT systems (batch and

online) new releases and new programs implemented.

Usually, these shifts began the start of the evening shift until the very next morning, from 6-7 p.m. to usually by 4-5-6 a.m., so you could quickly test all of the online and batch systems quickly (and of course, you had tested everything fairly well before putting the new code out there, often weeks at a time), before giving everything an OK (to implement LIVE or production vs. a test system).

So, you bring the systems down, implement the new or revised code on your test platforms, test, test, test, and then bringing the systems back up, at normal times, and then hold your breath, hoping for the best. Usually, 95% of the installs went ok, but sometimes they didn't, and you couldn't figure out why the install didn't work. Perhaps a module was missing...perhaps code in one or more modules were messed up. Perhaps steps were omitted by the vendor when you were going through the installs...perhaps you didn't have enough resources (Storage, DASD for example, direct access storage device) for a particular file or table. Numerous things.

And you had to get it all done by your deadline. Especially if you had a large online presence. Batch was usually better, as you could hold off on not running a batch cycle or two (a batch cycle is like a single run of a stream of software programs and/or tables, etc. Could be one instance per day, or each instance a magnetic data tape was received). Online was a little different, as you actually have live people interacting w/ the systems then.

[QueerDuck]

17. Morning! Up before the sun!

[Emile]

18. Morning person who likes an afternoon nap.

[JMCKUSICK]

19. My body wants to be a night owl.

[LoisB]

20. Both, either. It all depends on how I feel and/or what I'm doing on any given day/night.

[Tikki]

21. Morning...especially on shopping day.

I hit the grocery store at 6:30 am.
There can be a lot of traffic later in the day.

Tikki