16 hour day

[Plymouthy Adams]

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[knighthawk]

I don't start at 4 AM, usually more like 10 !!!!!! But ,I do stay out til 12 or 1 AM, usually closer to 2 AM. How else do you (we) expect to get anything done ? Cause you gotta work on the house / yard stuff during the day , so then you have to work on the important ( car ) stuff at night. I'm going out in shop now, had a late supper, had to finish the new porch roof today.....................will be in shop by 9 pm with the AC on !!!....105 heat index here today, also very high humidity !

[Norm's Coupe]

I've never gotten up at 4 AM to go to work, certainly not going to do it to work on my hobby or around the house. At around 8 or 8:30 PM it's time to stop whatever I'm doing and just sit and relax. Never worked on anything for 16 hours straight. Like the old TV show title. "8 is Enough."

Tim, just think the weekend will be over tomorrow and you can go to work Monday to get some rest.

[PatS....]

I love the early morning just as daylight begins (around 4:30 up here this time of year)

I seem to enjoy the coffee more and I get more done without people bugging me and no rotten phones ringing non-stop.

Tim, even though you may have overdone it, sounds like you got alot accomplished.

By the way, the truck is still running great...thanks for all the help.

[Olddaddy]

Down here in sunny Florida I do like Tim, up early to work before the heat comes. Nap in the afternoon, and back to work after the rain, or sundown. Precious little rain lately, very high 90s, heat index yesterday was 105. Spent about an hour in the pool with my daughter around 4pm and the sun was so hot we have to both wear hats! Plymouth content: I got the clutch linkages and pedal removed yesterday. And removed the crossmember to make way for the automatic tranny. Packed up the brake pedal, motor mount, and my Langdon headers to send them off to JT White for powder coating on Monday.

[Don Coatney]

I wake up every morning around 4-4:30 AM. On work days I do the three S's and am on the road to work at 5:30. I never use an alarm clock and even on the weekends I am up early. I slept in until 5:00 this morning as it is Sunday and I do not have to go to work. On the other end I am usually in bed by 8-9:00 PM.

[Norm's Coupe]

Norm..I made a special effort to be out and about early...trying to beat the heat...the original idea was just to putter in the shop till about 2PM..just got caught up on the Eagle..going real smooth..wanted to continue working..was about to call it an evening when wife called..her van died a horrible death at the gas station..told her to push it away fromthe pump...she daid it ws doing som erractick things...guages acting funky...knew what that was...carried a battery up and swaped it out..she went on to the store..I went to Advance..was in line to be checked out...A-hole took two customer who come in after me..layed the parts on the counter and came home...

Tim, don't blame you for leaving Advance like that. I probably would have done the same.

As for getting up early, didn't say I don't do that. Regardless of what time I go to bed at night, I'm up between 5:30 and 6:00 every morning. Like Don, I don't use an alarm. Haven't had one for the past 15 years or so. I just wake up. However, don't start my day until around 8 AM or so.

[Frank Blackstone]

I learned from Europeans in Austria, Italy,and Spain that taking a break during the heat of day is wise. I mean they go completely to bed for 2 hours and shut down business. We Americans do work harder than most. During Summer's heat I rise when my neighbor's rooster crows although I naturally am awake by 4: 30 due to my German ancestry. A sign in a youth hostel is England said. " Italians can not sign in the shower. Frenchmen are not allowed women in there rooms. Germans can not arise before 4:00 AM." Sounds honest to me. I still work best in evening and have had to learn to shut down by 7:00 PM so as to be relaxed enough to sleep well. Also since we have West Nile disease caring 'sketers in the area this early ,for me, quiting time avoids their dusk feeding time. My ACTH hormone is on an 8:00 PM shutdown schedule that makes me dumber than a box of rocks at this time so I have learned to stop work to avoid mistakes. Frank

[Jeff Ivan]

[quote=Frank Blackstone During Summer's heat I rise when my neighbor's rooster crows

I occasionally miss working the daylight shift like most normal folks do. I have been starting at 1pm and working a minimum of 10 hours and sometimes weekends too. This schedule does not leave a lot of personal time for me but it is $$ and the bosses are usually gone by 5pm. So I can do things at work in my own logical order and get more work done in less stressful time. I get up early just to do things at home or at my Mom's house before the 12:20pm deadline to leave for work. I have even been using some of my paid vacation days to get caught up on yard work. When I do have a chance to maybe sleep a little later, I can hear those roosters around here like Frank does. Those roosters sometimes can be very annoying if there is no A/C or fan on to drown out their noise and windows are open. I hear they taste like chicken. I cut most of our grass last night, and made a personal promise and commitment to myself that no matter what needed done around here I was going to spend the entire day today (Sunday) working on my Plymouth. So of course it has been raining since 7:30 am, and I never even bothered to take off the tarp. Well at least now the battery is fully charged, and I bought oil and gear lube.

[eric wissing]

"Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen come out in the mid-day sun" Oscar Wilde.

I spent a summer building grain elevators. They were poured concrete, slip forms. 6 PM to 6 AM. 7 to 10 days straight. By the time you got home and had eaten you were beat. The pay wasn't that great but you had no time to spend any of the money. It was a two-bit operation , thinking back. We would ride the headache ball on the crane down from the top 120'. Not real smart or OSHA approved. Eric