- Change clothes
- Cook and eat dinner
- Catch up on my YouTube subscriptions
- Catch up on my Reddit subscriptions
- Watch something on Metflix
- Sleep
Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#122I know it sounds nuts, but I always found changing clothes made a huge difference for me. Get home and put on a pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, or at least something you would never, ever wear to work. It always made some kind of mental shift in my head.
Here is my crazy idea that I want YC to fund: a Sock Printer. I want to come home and have a brand new pair of socks printed (woven) for me by a bot... I looked around on the internet for "sock machine" and its derivatives - but the best I could find was one machine that was super industrial. Nothing feels better than the first time you put on a brand new pair of socks. SockPrinter.com!
Wouldn't an easier, scalable version of this be some sort of Trunk Club but specifically for high quality socks?
Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have the same issue if I'm working a "normal" person's day, but not so much if I can wake later in the day (10-noon). The poster mentioning the tea was on track - it doesn't have to be tea, just get a routine at night, starting half an hour or something before bed. It can be showering or whatever, just something relaxing. Boring television shows - nothing that gets you too interested - after that until you sleep. O…
Same here actually, except a bit later if I'm not waking up to an alarm, I will drift towards waking up at 1-2pm and don't have as much trouble getting to sleep. Even then I can easily make myself stay up later than usual, and would take advantage of that fact to "flip" my schedule when needed over the course of a week by just going to bed "later" and getting up "later" every day until it was early instead of late. G…
Oh, I'd never go without an alarm if I'm expected to be awake before noon or 1pm. Without an alarm, I generally wake up between 11 and 1, depending on time of year.
I also have a weird quirk of occasionaly sleeping through alarm clocks and phone calls, which increases the earlier I have to be at work. I quit one job when I was younger because I couldn't physically handle the work hours: They started at 5am. Midnights? Yeah, those are glorious, though 2nd shift tends to be my favorite.
Your experience with Ambien mirrors my experience with melatonin. It works for me, but I have to allow extra time to sleep.I wake rested but groggier than normal.
Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
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there's a spin off called the originals which is even worse, currently suffering through that. and then something called riverdale .
Shit, my girlfriend knows about the originals, I forgot. I think that's next. I haven't heard her mention riverdale. Let's hope it stays that way.
Just invent your own drinking game for it. With vampire diaries (or VD as it became known in our house) we drank when Caroline organised a party, Damon did eyebrow acting or Stefan started a sentence with "I've been alive for 120 years".
Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shit, my girlfriend knows about the originals, I forgot. I think that's next. I haven't heard her mention riverdale. Let's hope it stays that way.
Just invent your own drinking game for it. With vampire diaries (or VD as it became known in our house) we drank when Caroline organised a party, Damon did eyebrow acting or Stefan started a sentence with "I've been alive for 120 years".
I'm sad enough just to know those names, no need to encourage it.
Hell, I'd have to watch the show!
Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#126Queue up a handful (maybe an hour or two) of YouTube videos from my subscription box. Not that it's all that different from the typical "flop on couch and veg in from of the boobtube until you pass out" but if you have a diverse subbox you almost never run out of stimulating, fresh content that does more for you than typical Netflix-style content would. Here are some of my favourites: - AvE: https://www.youtube.com/c…
Ooooh, these are nice. Here are mine: Extra History: stories of historical incidents — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBHk_zLTmY&list=PLhyKYa0YJ_... Real Engineering: mostly materials science — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVguabIhTs&t=33s - Wendover Productions — mostly transportation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M Tom Scott: a bit of everything — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo - Ja…
Thanks for these but alas - the formatting!
Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ooooh, these are nice. Here are mine: Extra History: stories of historical incidents — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBHk_zLTmY&list=PLhyKYa0YJ_... Real Engineering: mostly materials science — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVguabIhTs&t=33s - Wendover Productions — mostly transportation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M Tom Scott: a bit of everything — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo - Ja…
Thanks for these but alas - the formatting!
ah drat. I forgot about needing an extra newline. Apologies :/
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With you on the new socks. For me, nothing is better than a brand new pair of merino wool socks. Merino is so light, strong and breathable you can wear them two days running. Not cheap, but worth it for sheer comfort.
What is your opinion of Thorlo?
Thanks - Thorlo is new to me. Their page on fibres [1] is interesting, even though it doesn't mention merino it does talk about wool & silk blends. Now I want to get merino silk blend, but they're not cheap.
Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#129Let my thoughts randomize, about 2 hours before going to sleep. It's the only way to attain the capability of falling asleep...
I fall asleep by randomizing my thoughts but it only takes a couple of minutes
I've never heard anyone else mention this - thanks for making me aware of it!
Something that sometimes works for me is to imagine something that's emotionally flat, but complicated enough that it pushes other thoughts out and it's not boring. An example might be: I imagine myself building a model train in my backyard. I'll kind of 'drift down' to thinking about how to set up, say, the grain dispenser, then how to paint it, then how the colors work together, etc, etc. The next night it's something different.
Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is your opinion of Thorlo?
Thanks - Thorlo is new to me. Their page on fibres [1] is interesting, even though it doesn't mention merino it does talk about wool & silk blends. Now I want to get merino silk blend, but they're not cheap. [1] https://www.thorlo.com/why-thorlos/fibers
Buy some you won't regret.
I was hated amongst my brothers at Christmas because I would always pick up a package and guess the contents... I was always right
Could always pick out the socks. As I got older it was always thorlo.
Best socks ever.
Buy them.