I awake at three in the night. I awake, when I go to bed at 10 pm. or at 12 or 1 in the night, it makes no difference. So I go to bed earlier, to have some hours to sleep well.
When I waas a kid we had to have a nap everyafternoon, and gawd how I hated it! Then I grew up & went to work, and bloody few were the days when I wouldn’t have sold my soul foran hour’s nap after lunch. Ve gedt too zoon oldt undt too ladte schnardt.
Now I’m retired [undt hopefully a bidt schmsrdterr] and can nap whenever I like.
in alaska, and the nordic countries and russia, the sun doesn’t really set during summer. people are mowing their lawns at 3 am and it is still light out.
@Andrew6385,Methinks you were trying too hard to be a skeptic yesterday!I realize that the earth is a “sphere”, but as a circle it’s not really flat, either. The two dimensions of a circle are circumference and diameter. A third dimension is irrelevant. If God sat on the top of a sphere, He would have to sit everywhere, which He does, in effect, since He is omnipresent, but to anthropomorphize Him to sit on the top of a circle makes the point better. All humans are “sitting on top of the (spherical) world” wherever they are.
When I was a toddler, my mother would say I could have my afternoon nap in the big bed if I stayed put. She would read me a story, then lie down beside me “until you drop off”—and she was the one who fell asleep in a heartbeat. I understood why, being the youngest of 10. I think lying there looking over the storybook was one of the things that helped me learn to read at age 3. (The other two were having older siblings that taught me my ABCs while “playing school” and having a mother who read to and with me.)
Where I live during the winter it gets light out around 9am, and gets dark by 4pm. In the summer it gets light out around 4am and dark around 10:30pm. Good luck trying planning sleep around day/light cycles, lol!
Once when I was a kid my sister, my cousin and I had to take a nap. I pretended to be asleep and missed out on going to the park with my sister and cousin because my aunt thought I was asleep. I listened in agony as they left without me, afraid that if I got up they’d know that I was pretending.
Parents are idiotic. Send the kid to bed at 7 or 8, they will be wide awake between 3 and 5 am. Then the parents whine and cry about the kids being up so early. They whine “but kids need more sleep!!!” Oh yeah? Then why are they getting up before dawn? idiots.
Puddleglum2My objection is with the doctrine of fundamentalism, that the bible is literal word for word fact (even translations into english) with no interpretation allowed. You can;t have it both ways. The King James bible says that the earth is a “circle” and the sky is a solid dome.
Also, some early versions of the bible do not say that Mary was a virgin.
ratlum over 10 years ago
Great plan.
margueritem over 10 years ago
Mom and Dad are in for it now…
Odd Dog Premium Member over 10 years ago
Saturday morning cartoon’s at full volume.
demtrug over 10 years ago
I like Hobbes’ comment.
rentier over 10 years ago
I awake at three in the night. I awake, when I go to bed at 10 pm. or at 12 or 1 in the night, it makes no difference. So I go to bed earlier, to have some hours to sleep well.
ziphobia over 10 years ago
Be afraid mom and dad, be really afraid…
pelican47 over 10 years ago
IN winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite the other way,I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and seeThe birds still hopping on the tree,Or hear the grown-up people’s feetStill going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,When all the sky is clear and blue,And I should like so much to play,To have to go to bed by day?
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894).
bluskies over 10 years ago
Been there. Tried that. Was told "get your butt back in bed- OR ELSE! Never did find out what ELSE was.
watmiwori over 10 years ago
When I waas a kid we had to have a nap everyafternoon, and gawd how I hated it! Then I grew up & went to work, and bloody few were the days when I wouldn’t have sold my soul foran hour’s nap after lunch. Ve gedt too zoon oldt undt too ladte schnardt.
Now I’m retired [undt hopefully a bidt schmsrdterr] and can nap whenever I like.
dustspecks Premium Member over 10 years ago
Sounds like a plan!
Puddleglum2 over 10 years ago
If Calvin stays up later, his ‘daze’ will be longer.
vwdualnomand over 10 years ago
in alaska, and the nordic countries and russia, the sun doesn’t really set during summer. people are mowing their lawns at 3 am and it is still light out.
Ace2Mick over 10 years ago
@Pelican47 – I loved that poem. Thanks for a great reminder!
Puddleglum2 over 10 years ago
@Andrew6385,Methinks you were trying too hard to be a skeptic yesterday!I realize that the earth is a “sphere”, but as a circle it’s not really flat, either. The two dimensions of a circle are circumference and diameter. A third dimension is irrelevant. If God sat on the top of a sphere, He would have to sit everywhere, which He does, in effect, since He is omnipresent, but to anthropomorphize Him to sit on the top of a circle makes the point better. All humans are “sitting on top of the (spherical) world” wherever they are.
Poollady over 10 years ago
Good plan, Calvin That happens in Winter
orinoco womble over 10 years ago
When I was a toddler, my mother would say I could have my afternoon nap in the big bed if I stayed put. She would read me a story, then lie down beside me “until you drop off”—and she was the one who fell asleep in a heartbeat. I understood why, being the youngest of 10. I think lying there looking over the storybook was one of the things that helped me learn to read at age 3. (The other two were having older siblings that taught me my ABCs while “playing school” and having a mother who read to and with me.)
Aaron Saltzer over 10 years ago
That’ll only make things worse.
ant over 10 years ago
Sleep is overrated.
Wait, where does Calvin, Hobbes, and his parents live?
Phapada over 10 years ago
meihong over 10 years ago
go calvin!
Miba over 10 years ago
Where I live during the winter it gets light out around 9am, and gets dark by 4pm. In the summer it gets light out around 4am and dark around 10:30pm. Good luck trying planning sleep around day/light cycles, lol!
ziglego over 10 years ago
oh, @$!%
Number Three over 10 years ago
Good Luck with that, Calvin!
LOL xxx
QuietStorm27 over 10 years ago
Once when I was a kid my sister, my cousin and I had to take a nap. I pretended to be asleep and missed out on going to the park with my sister and cousin because my aunt thought I was asleep. I listened in agony as they left without me, afraid that if I got up they’d know that I was pretending.
ricrocs over 10 years ago
Same with me. Blasted the early Saturday morning cartoons & they had hangovers!
khpage over 10 years ago
Revenge is best served when your electrictringle blankie is on and you’re underneath it doing some serious plotting…
westny77 over 10 years ago
Calvin dude I get up at 5am in the morning to hit the gym then I go to work. It is dark when I get up.
K M over 10 years ago
Just wait till winter, Calvin; you’ll be up in the dark for months.
nickel_penny over 10 years ago
Parents are idiotic. Send the kid to bed at 7 or 8, they will be wide awake between 3 and 5 am. Then the parents whine and cry about the kids being up so early. They whine “but kids need more sleep!!!” Oh yeah? Then why are they getting up before dawn? idiots.
Andrew85994 over 10 years ago
Puddleglum2My objection is with the doctrine of fundamentalism, that the bible is literal word for word fact (even translations into english) with no interpretation allowed. You can;t have it both ways. The King James bible says that the earth is a “circle” and the sky is a solid dome.
Also, some early versions of the bible do not say that Mary was a virgin.
Do not use the bible a a science book.
juliekw over 10 years ago
i love that one!! : )