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I have a client that asks me if I ever sleep. He's right to. I only sleep for 4 hours at a time so if you don't live with me it can seem like I'm always awake.
It's one of the reasons I like Brits, the Germans and well basically folks from western Europe. You all are awake when I am and most of you speak English.
I know a little Spanish but that doesn't help me as much as most of the speakers I know are in a similar time zone.
Anyway thank you all for existing and haunting the same website I do. It makes the wee hours more tolerable.
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honey the codewitch wrote: the wee hours
At my age that can mean other things. 
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And several wees at my age.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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My trick is to convince my aging bladder and that of my two 8 year old greyhounds that they need to be emptied at the same time during the night.
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Yeah I could see where syncing with them would be a challenge.
When i was younger we had a huge male German shepherd and whenever we fed him soft food, alpo he would get gas and it was so bad that it would wake us out of a dead sleep with tears in our eyes.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Hera, our female, has that problem despite the fat-free plain yogurt we add to their food. I've been working from home for the last several months, and I can't figure out how she manages to save it up until I have the door closed while I'm on an online meeting.
Greyhound gas is lethal. I'm convinced it's their version of nitrous oxide.
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I'd be tempted to add Gas'x. I think that's the name, to her food
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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I'm also in the age bracket where "an all nighter" means not getting out of bed instead of not getting into bed.
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Or as the saying goes; "it takes all night to do what I used to do all night".
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Getting old sucks. All you can really do is laugh about it I suppose.
I'm in my early 40s so I'm just starting. I get new creaks and groans every year, sleep less, can't eat dairy anymore, etc.
It hasn't gotten serious yet, but then if my family history is any indication I won't see 60.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Getting old sucks.
Nope.
It's waaaaaaaay better than the alternative!
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LOL that's fair. Considering I won't be getting that old I try to look on the bright side. I'll never need a walker or diapers.
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Sorry - I hadn't realized you were vitality challenged. Please accept my apologies if I caused any offense or upset: it was not intentional and I will endeavour not to do it again.
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Oh don't worry about it. I'm not in poor physical health. It's just that for whatever reason none of my family make it to 60. I don't know what it will be that takes me out if anything, but I'm just not making plans.
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modified 28-Nov-20 10:19am.
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As they say with the stock market: "past performance may not be indicative of future results".
My father died young - under 40 - and my mother only made it to her 70's.
That doesn't mean I can't reach the ton, or more (Covid / Fall Of Civilization permitting).
Remember that diet and environment were much worse for our ancestors than they are for us, so "past performance" means nothing unless the same known incurable genetic condition took them all!
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My situation is complicated by my mental health, and because i am a queer person. All of which statistically leads to dying pretty young but of various causes that are more or less ancillary to those core traits.
And the mental health stuff certainly runs in my family. The more serious cluster As are no joke.
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So true. As a friend of mine remarked the other day, "When I wake up in the morning I think, 'Oh that's nice, another day in my life'".
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A very healthy way to start the day.
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honey the codewitch wrote: if my family history is any indication I won't see 60
I can empathize, as I'm in the same boat. Depending upon which branch of my family tree you traverse we die from either lower GI cancers or early-onset heart disease exacerbated by diabetes.
There's a common factor in all of this: everyone who died before threescore-and-ten refused to take care of themselves. They rejected simple basics like proper diet and a moderate amount of physical activity.
My hope is to fall over dead in the finishing chute of a 10K run after 90 minutes on the course, celebrating my 90th+ birthday.
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The wee hours are the best time: it's quiet, peaceful, and there are few distractions.
Best of all, nobody tries to contact you! 
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I do like it, and maybe if I lived alone I'd feel that way but having to be up in such a way that I don't wake my hubby - esp since my dev machine is in the bedroom (his request) I'd be lying if I said it wasn't kind of a bummer.
But sitting in a dark room for hours isn't the greatest way to start my morning.
It's better in the summer when it's light out and I can go for a walk without it being all depressingly dreary.
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honey the codewitch wrote: all depressingly dreary.
You misspelled "all BEAUTIFULLY dreary"!
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Gosh you would love it here.
Or London for that matter.
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I wish I could do with four hours, but I need at least seven, preferably eight, and if I don't set an alarm I get nine.
Nighttime is the best time and mornings suck, but unfortunately, I have to be up in the morning for customers.
That said, my alarm still rarely goes off before 9:00 
During my two week Christmas vacation, which is kind of a thing for me, I usually don't get out of bed until 12:00 and I stay up till at least 2:00, but often later.
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