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The 'Night Owl' Thread

Started by racx_00, March 23, 2004, 12:07:42 AM

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Jeysie

I can't post in here at the "proper" time tonight, because the electric company has decided it needs to shut off our power for a short while at some point after midnight. I *hate* it when they do that, it's such a pain in the butt to get everything reset again! At the very least, they could do it on the weekend or something, so you don't have to worry about flashing clocks and stuff right before you have to leave for work. Bother.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Yonkey

Wow, that's annoying.  I'd get a battery-powered alarm clock just in case.  :)
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Quote from: Louisiana Night on June 27, 2004, 10:49:01 PMP.S. Anyone here ever use Navy(on this forum)? It looks strange on my monitor(as in, hard to read).
Same here, better not use it then. :-X

Quote from: Jeysie on June 28, 2004, 07:18:01 PMI can't post in here at the "proper" time tonight, because the electric company has decided it needs to shut off our power for a short while at some point after midnight. I *hate* it when they do that, it's such a pain in the butt to get everything reset again! At the very least, they could do it on the weekend or something, so you don't have to worry about flashing clocks and stuff right before you have to leave for work. Bother.

Last time our power was shut off it started at 8 AM, but we were warned a couple of days beforehand so we were prepared. I think it's very unlikely for our electric company to do that during the night, seeing as how that would disrupt many alarm clocks.
When there's a lot of rainfall in a short amount of time, somewhere there's a power conduit that's not properly shielded to keep it water-protected, so that triggers our electrical safety and 'poof' everything's down. Now when that happens during the night, then then you have a problem. :-\ BTW, my alarm clock is equipped with a possibility to retain time when there's a power outage, assuming you put a battery in there, but a) batteries are not environment friendly, not even re-usable ones, so we scrapped that, and b) I doubt that if the power's still out when the alarm's supposed to go off, the battery will do that too. Maybe we should all switch back to those old alarm clocks, the ones you had to wind up. :P
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koko_99_2001

The sun is JUST about to start coming up...I've been awake for going on 30 min. and I'm already ready for the day (excluding make-up--that comes after I'm a little more awake).  Why am I up?  Because I have to go into work today, and I have no clue what time my roomies get up and ready for their classes :(...

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koko_99_2001

I can't believe that no one has posted here since I did so this morning!  That's just wrong!  Anyway, just got back from seeing Spiderman 2 (see "spoilers" in the Movie thread).  Right now, watching my sis play Spiderman on X-Box...trying to get Koko to meow, but he's being a pain and has quieted down.

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The Spiderman game based on the first movie, or the one based on the second?

koko_99_2001

They're playing the based on the first.  We went to two different movie galleries...and neither one had the Spiderman 2 game in!
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Louisiana Night

I was just wondering, because I haven't tried the second one. The first one was good(PC version), but it's extremely hard to get all the secrets. I still think the first mini-game was the best(multiplayer).

P.S. I'm hoping that you've found that mini-game already.

Jeysie

Wee, I can post here again! ;)

I actually don't use the alarm on my clock. As dumb as it sounds, I detest being jolted awake by the sound of an alarm so much that eventually I kept waking up constantly in the hopes of being able to shut off the alarm before it could go off. :P So I finally gave up on the alarm and just trained myself to wake up on my own. I actually almost always can do it, too. (Generally the only times I oversleep are either when I'm really zonked when I go to bed, or if I didn't go to bed early enough to get many hours of sleep. :P )

However, I did get stuck having to spend a hot sticky night with no fan. Grrr.

And I suspect the whole reason the electric company does that sort of thing at night is because that's the time that people are least likely to be actively using the electricity. I still wish they'd do it on the weekend instead, though. :P (They did warn us a week beforehand.)

And yay for J-R having a bed! ;) I slept on a couch for about 9 years a while back... didn't sleep in a bed regularly until I moved to Springfield a little over 4 years ago.

Peace & Luv, Liz

J-ROC

It's about 3 am.

I can't figure out what I'm still doing up.

I'll just sit here and wonder and ponder a little more.

*fizzle*
Just look at me,
I'm living proof that,
TIME HEALS NOTHING!

- from Time Heals Nothing by Danko Jones


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Quote from: Jeysie on July 02, 2004, 02:58:08 AMI actually don't use the alarm on my clock. As dumb as it sounds, I detest being jolted awake by the sound of an alarm so much that eventually I kept waking up constantly in the hopes of being able to shut off the alarm before it could go off. :P So I finally gave up on the alarm and just trained myself to wake up on my own. I actually almost always can do it, too. (Generally the only times I oversleep are either when I'm really zonked when I go to bed, or if I didn't go to bed early enough to get many hours of sleep. :P )
Actually, the alarm on my alarm clock is set to start playing the radio. The volume of the radio is set particularly low, in order for me to wake up nice and slow, and not being jolted. Ofcourse, the backside of it is, that sometimes I wake up too soon, so I stay in bed, I fall asleep again, and stay asleep until after the radio has played for 59 minutes, and shuts down. :P
Most of the times though, it works fine, and I wake up at the right time. In the weekend, or when I'm on holiday, the alarm clock time is set late enough for me to be either already awake when it goes off, or be sufficiently rested to stay awake. The reason why I go to sleep again during the week, is because I am constantly  having a small sleep deprivation. I's 11:18 PM and very dark outside.
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J-ROC

It's 2:20am or so.

KQ9 is my last stop for the night.

Gotta hit the Movie thread to share my thoughts on Spidey 2 before I crash.

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I'm living proof that,
TIME HEALS NOTHING!

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Jeysie

CC: I tried for a time to use the radio function as my alarm, but it was useless. I just would sleep right through it, unless I increased the volume high enough to disturb me... which brought me to the same problem I had before.

I'm just completely not normal about everything. ;P

Peace & Luv, Liz

J-ROC

Re:The 'Night Owl' Thread
Just look at me,
I'm living proof that,
TIME HEALS NOTHING!

- from Time Heals Nothing by Danko Jones


racx_00

2:16am

I have just decided that I am going to watch a DVD :o ;)
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B'rrr

...the night has just begun and the movie just ended.... guess i'm going to look another one... soon  ;-D
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