OT: One of my pleasures in life is in the morning....

[Mr. Potter]

Now that I'm officially a middle-aged man I no longer have the ability to sleep in. I love sleep but I wake up right around 6:30-45am. I remember how much I hated waking up at the time for getting to high school. However, my two boys are high school students and without an alarm they could sleep till 2pm. So now every morning when I wake up, I let the dog out, then come up stairs to bang on their doors like a police raid shouting "Time for school!". Nothing better than their reactions of dismay. I love it.
Shalom

 

[Keyser Soze 16802]

Open up the shades.....they will love it

 

[LionJim]

My dad would wake me up by kicking my bed. He was normally a sweet guy so I guess this was his way of blowing off steam.

 

[fairgambit]

On a related note, 1000 is the only number from 0 to 1000 that has an “a” in it.

OK, so it's not related, but I thought you might want to know.

 

[LionJim]

On a related note, 1000 is the only number from 0 to 1000 that has an “a” in it.

OK, so it's not related, but I thought you might want to know.

4 = two squared.

 

[fairgambit]

4 = two squared.

 

[LionJim]

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What you described is a variation of an old problem. I’ll use the technical jargon without explanation: You can describe pi as “a circle’s circumference divided by its diameter.” Since there are uncountably many real numbers and there are only countably many possible ways to describe a real number, there are infinitely many real numbers which cannot be described or defined in words.

 

[Psu00]

4 = two squared.

 

[SleepyLion]

4 = two squared.

1 = one squared
and 0 = zero squared

 

[MtNittany]

I saw the thread title, and was worried that Bob had started it for a second there.

 

[fairgambit]

4 = two squared.

I would argue, LionJim, that squaring is a process, not a number, but I will allow it and not pursue the matter further.

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

My pleasure is about 30 minutes after my 2nd cup of coffee!

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

one of the amazing things I have noticed in my 50s is how rarely I need an alarm clock. even if I need to wake up super early, I will set an alarm clock and almost always, without fail, I will wake up clear as day minutes before.

 

[MtNittany]

one of the amazing things I have noticed in my 50s is how rarely I need an alarm clock. even if I need to wake up super early, I will set an alarm clock and almost always, without fail, I will wake up clear as day minutes before.

I only have to get up usually 2 times/week, but I wake up between 5am and the 5:45am alarm every time.

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

one of the amazing things I have noticed in my 50s is how rarely I need an alarm clock. even if I need to wake up super early, I will set an alarm clock and almost always, without fail, I will wake up clear as day minutes before.

Jean Paul could have used you!!

 

[PSU Mike]

On a related note, 1000 is the only number from 0 to 1000 that has an “a” in it.

OK, so it's not related, but I thought you might want to know.

Give me an odd number without an “e” in it. My 10 y.o. son requested that one after I gave him fg’s question.

 

[BobPSU92]

Jean Paul could have used you!!

 

[LionJim]

Give me an odd number without an “e” in it. My 10 y.o. son requested that one after I gave him fg’s question.

Two plus half of two.

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

“This son-of-a ***** is ice cold!”

 

[Midnighter]

On a related note, 1000 is the only number from 0 to 1000 that has an “a” in it.

OK, so it's not related, but I thought you might want to know.

 

[BW Lion]

Now that I'm officially a middle-aged man I no longer have the ability to sleep in. I love sleep but I wake up right around 6:30-45am. I remember how much I hated waking up at the time for getting to high school. However, my two boys are high school students and without an alarm they could sleep till 2pm. So now every morning when I wake up, I let the dog out, then come up stairs to bang on their doors like a police raid shouting "Time for school!". Nothing better than their reactions of dismay. I love it.
Shalom

Be careful. You only weigh 150 # or so.

One of them might kick your butt

 

[slwlion01]

Now that I'm officially a middle-aged man I no longer have the ability to sleep in. I love sleep but I wake up right around 6:30-45am. I remember how much I hated waking up at the time for getting to high school. However, my two boys are high school students and without an alarm they could sleep till 2pm. So now every morning when I wake up, I let the dog out, then come up stairs to bang on their doors like a police raid shouting "Time for school!". Nothing better than their reactions of dismay. I love it.
Shalom

At 84 yo, October, I'm just happy to wake up. Shalom

 

[BW Lion]

On a related note, 1000 is the only number from 0 to 1000 that has an “a” in it.

OK, so it's not related, but I thought you might want to know.

Does fairgambit enterprises,LLC also own Select Distributors, LLC?

The only reason I ask is that there was this huge explosion this morning at one of their distribution facilities in southeastern Michigan. It is reported that metal shrapnel flew as far as one (1) mile from the blast site.

Their “About Us” website page reads like something from fairgambiit Enterprises

Select Distributors LLC is a wholesale supplier of Novelties Item, Phone Accessories, and general merchandise to discount stores, dollar stores, wholesalers, jobbers, supermarkets, convenience stores and many other types of retailers and wholesalers.​

It is not always easy to find retail and dollar store wholesalers that are reliable and consistent. You will find that Select Distributors provides customers with quality service and quality products. Great variety of products, along with our quality service team, will give you untold value in a number of ways. Your customers will love your store.​

 

[fairgambit]

Does fairgambit enterprises,LLC also own Select Distributors, LLC?

The only reason I ask is that there was this huge explosion this morning at one of their distribution facilities in southeastern Michigan. It is reported that metal shrapnel flew as far as one (1) mile from the blast site.

Their “About Us” website page reads like something from fairgambiit Enterprises

Select Distributors LLC is a wholesale supplier of Novelties Item, Phone Accessories, and general merchandise to discount stores, dollar stores, wholesalers, jobbers, supermarkets, convenience stores and many other types of retailers and wholesalers.​

It is not always easy to find retail and dollar store wholesalers that are reliable and consistent. You will find that Select Distributors provides customers with quality service and quality products. Great variety of products, along with our quality service team, will give you untold value in a number of ways. Your customers will love your store.​

Sad about the explosion, but as to our possible ownership, this company is the antithesis of what Fairgambit Worldwide Enterprises represents. Quality? Value? That's crazy! Remember our slogan. "No one gives you less for more". Still, thanks for the mention.

 

[fairgambit]

Give me an odd number without an “e” in it. My 10 y.o. son requested that one after I gave him fg’s question.

Two? Four? I was never good at math so to me, all numbers are "odd".

 

[wbcbus]

one of the amazing things I have noticed in my 50s is how rarely I need an alarm clock. even if I need to wake up super early, I will set an alarm clock and almost always, without fail, I will wake up clear as day minutes before.

This really does amaze me. If I set my alarm for 6:30, invariably I will wake up between 6:20 and 6:30. This presumes a normal night sleep though. I was working on witness outlines until 4 am once, thought I had an alarm set, and was awoken by my client at 8 with a phone call for an 8:30 hearing start time.

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

This really does amaze me. If I set my alarm for 6:30, invariably I will wake up between 6:20 and 6:30. This presumes a normal night sleep though. I was working on witness outlines until 4 am once, thought I had an alarm set, and was awoken by my client at 8 with a phone call for an 8:30 hearing start time.

Exactly... If I could have consistently awoke like this when I was a student, or even for the first 15 years of my professional life, I'd have retired a decade ago

 

[LionJim]

Exactly... If I could have consistently awoke like this when I was a student, or even for the first 15 years of my professional life, I'd have retired a decade ago

Drives you nuts thinking about it, doesn’t it?

 

[PSU Mike]

This really does amaze me. If I set my alarm for 6:30, invariably I will wake up between 6:20 and 6:30. This presumes a normal night sleep though. I was working on witness outlines until 4 am once, thought I had an alarm set, and was awoken by my client at 8 with a phone call for an 8:30 hearing start time.

I hate setting alarms, and usually only do it when I have an early flight. Then, because of the rarity of the situation (I’m not a business traveler) I end up waking up early six times wondering if I missed the alarm.

 

[ODShowtime]

Sleep is like chasing the dragon; satisfaction is always out of reach.

I started working from home about 5 years ago and don't need an alarm anymore. So what happens now that that torture is gone? Now I wake up even earlier for no reason and feel like crap.

It's like the Twilight Zone episode where the guy has all the books and all the time but no glasses.

 

[LionJim]

As y’all know, I’m an ironhead and while I was teaching I’d wake up at 4:30 to be at the gym when it opened at 5. My watch has a stopwatch feature and I’d use the stopwatch to time my hard boiled eggs. More than once, twice in one week, actually, I would forget to switch back to my regular watch setting and I’d wake up, look at my watch saying 4:45, drive to the gym’s empty parking lot and realize that it was 2:15 am. Good times. Thank god my gym is only four minutes away.

 

[WyomingLion]

Thank goodness, when I read the title I thought this was about your sex life!

 

[leinbacker]

Now that I'm officially a middle-aged man I no longer have the ability to sleep in. I love sleep but I wake up right around 6:30-45am. I remember how much I hated waking up at the time for getting to high school. However, my two boys are high school students and without an alarm they could sleep till 2pm. So now every morning when I wake up, I let the dog out, then come up stairs to bang on their doors like a police raid shouting "Time for school!". Nothing better than their reactions of dismay. I love it.
Shalom

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

I’m up at 530 every am. Don’t be a slacker

 

[fairgambit]

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

Drives you nuts thinking about it, doesn’t it?

I am deeply in the "woulda coulda shoulda" portion of my journey

 

[LionJim]

I am deeply in the "woulda coulda shoulda" portion of my journey

You’ve done well to recover from your mistakes. That’s all that matters at this point.

 

[Connorpozlee]

I can remember as a young boy my mother would come in to wake me up. She would quietly open the door and in a soft voice say, “Connorpozlee, it’s time to get up for school.” Then she would return 5 minutes later, rub my back and tell me again that it was time for school. Then, a couple minutes after that she would walk back in and sing, “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning”. The a couple minutes after that she would bust through the door and yell, “GET UP AND GET OUT OF BED!!!!!”. The last one always did the trick.

 

[BobPSU92]

You’ve done well to recover from your mistakes. That’s all that matters at this point.

What if you‘re about 25 years removed from graduate school and still make damaging mistakes as often as you breathe? Asking for a friend someone I know.

 

[MtNittany]

You’ve done well to recover from your mistakes. That’s all that matters at this point.

Yep - Eric is one that some here have probably looked to as an example, and he's lived up to that. One of my favorite posters over the years.