Comments on: Time To Give It A Rest http://thesurlybird.com/arguments/time-to-give-it-a-rest/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dave g http://thesurlybird.com/arguments/time-to-give-it-a-rest/comment-page-1/#comment-421 dave g Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:34:06 +0000 http://thesurlybirds.com/?p=1268#comment-421 my alarm clock is still set a few minutes fast. ever other clock or watch i have is set to the correct time. i don't find myself relaxing or stressing with this though. what i do have issue with currently is setting my alarm for 6:30 with intentions of working out or being productive in some other way, only to hit snooze for an hour or so. why? this isn't productive sleep. worse yet, i feel disappointed in myself that i lack the discipline any longer to get up on the first alarm ring (actually the first sound of horrible radio*). i used to rise from bed the first time my alarm went off. sometime in college is when i finally discovered the snooze and it's been nothing but a curse. i wish it didn't exist. *- people still listen to the radio? it's quite possibly the worst thing i can imagine. here's a device in 2009 (almost twenty ten. i hope we don't call it two thousand ten) that gives you almost zero control over what music you get to listen to and bombards you with horrible advertising (shooting myself here) at a ratio that at best seems to be 1/1 content/advertisement. it just disturbs me. npr may get a pass, but that's just because its quiet, i can somewhat zone it out while simultaneously feel like an intellectual. thanks guys my alarm clock is still set a few minutes fast. ever other clock or watch i have is set to the correct time. i don’t find myself relaxing or stressing with this though.

what i do have issue with currently is setting my alarm for 6:30 with intentions of working out or being productive in some other way, only to hit snooze for an hour or so. why?

this isn’t productive sleep. worse yet, i feel disappointed in myself that i lack the discipline any longer to get up on the first alarm ring (actually the first sound of horrible radio*). i used to rise from bed the first time my alarm went off. sometime in college is when i finally discovered the snooze and it’s been nothing but a curse. i wish it didn’t exist.

*- people still listen to the radio? it’s quite possibly the worst thing i can imagine. here’s a device in 2009 (almost twenty ten. i hope we don’t call it two thousand ten) that gives you almost zero control over what music you get to listen to and bombards you with horrible advertising (shooting myself here) at a ratio that at best seems to be 1/1 content/advertisement. it just disturbs me. npr may get a pass, but that’s just because its quiet, i can somewhat zone it out while simultaneously feel like an intellectual. thanks guys

]]> By: Marc http://thesurlybird.com/arguments/time-to-give-it-a-rest/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Marc Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:39:53 +0000 http://thesurlybirds.com/?p=1268#comment-420 Really? People still do this? I have an atomic clock so that I can know with certainty, the exact time at any given moment. Not only that, I have an atomic watch, for guess why? The very same purpose. Nothing is more stupid than someone who contiunally arrives late because their clock tells the incorrect time (be it early or late). Really? People still do this? I have an atomic clock so that I can know with certainty, the exact time at any given moment. Not only that, I have an atomic watch, for guess why? The very same purpose. Nothing is more stupid than someone who contiunally arrives late because their clock tells the incorrect time (be it early or late).

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