At 6 AM, after 8.5 hours of sleep and after a sunrise alarm clock has been getting brighter for about half an hour. Then I make breakfast and coffee and try to have an uninterrupted 2 hours of working on personal projects before going to work.
Ask HN: How do you wake up?
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#32Sidenote: Mega annoyance. Why does the iPhone not wake for an alarm. I think pretty much every other phone in existance has nailed this?
If you want to take it off the grid (versus letting it ring out in silent mode), you could put it into airplane mode.
That's a good idea, but it's also battery conservation and the knowledge that it's also OFF. Certain processes can hang and chew through your battery until you restart, which is also why it's nice to turn it off of a night.
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#33Yawn, stretch my arms, glance up from my computer and realise it's daybreak and that I've been up all night...again.
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#34Badly.
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#35My alarm goes off at 7:55 pm. Work starts at 8 pm so there isn't much time for messing around. This is by design. I work support and sign in, start work-related tasks etc.
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#36My radio alarm clock goes off at about 8:30am. The radio slowly soothes me awake, so that I gradually wake over the next 30 mins or so Using this method puts me in a better mood more consistently than when I used to get up immediately and/or earlier.
I would love to get up early and work on some personal projects before I went in to work, but my brain just doesn’t start running until about 11am, and I cant figure out how to change this.
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#37I find when I wake up at the same time each day I do a lot better. Weekends completely throw me off cause I can usually sleep in until 7, sometimes at the latest 8.
I have a few methods of waking up.
1. Cell phone alarm set to 5 a.m, this is hit or miss. Sometimes I actually wake up a minute before the alarm even goes off. 2. A 2.5 year old who wakes me up with a plastic golf club or other blunt instrument on the weekends (this is the whole sleeping in part) 3. Instances like this morning, where I was up at 3:15 because I stopped breathing...
The last one is not recommended but it always wakes me up. Thankfully it does not happen too often, just now and again.
Routine is get out of bed, roll the arms around to get the blood circulating, make a nice breakfast and prepare a lunch to take into the office. Drink a bottle of water, turn the coffee pot on, knock out a set of push ups, hit the shower, get dressed, get in car, get 2 blocks down the road and realize I forgot the lunch or my pants, turn around, get item, head to office.
Weekend is fairly void of a routine with the exception of my son waking me up, and taking him to Starbucks in the morning to flirt with chicks.
Ultimately, My routine during the week is the best one for me. It make's me pretty productive, and I really enjoy being the only one in the office for a few hours. It's amazing what you can get accomplished when no one is around to interrupt you.
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#39mpd + cron + some hard rock... i'm a heavy sleeper :D
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#40Usually about 5 minutes before my real alarm goes off...