4am..... Why?

Well, one reason could be because I snuck into bed at 8pm... awakened at 2am.. uh huh, pee pee trip # something-or-other.. turned the thought to, "That's six hours.. I'm up/good."

How long do most people sleep Google? The National Institutes of Health tells us "the average adult sleeps less than seven hours per night. In today's fast-paced society, six or seven hours of sleep may sound pretty good." I wonder... Oh I wonder wonder wonder wonder HOW, how they know that?

4am. Lends to the ability to look up stupid facts like "How much of your life do we spend sleeping?".. Survey says... "If the average night's sleep is eight hours (ie one third of a day), one sleeps for one third of one's life. If you live, say, 75 years, that's 25 years asleep, or 9,125 days." To which, they always have those point, counterpoint thingys where the average Joe can add/comment/dispute/reinforce/yada.. and one feller (obviously a 4am'er himself, not enough caffeine yet) writes "Not nearly as many as after their lifetime." Har har.

What time do we go to bed? Well, Clifton, AZ goes the earliest at 10:33pm... The City that never sleeps, New York "tops" the list with 11:55pm... Sao Paulo Brazil says "step aside, NY'ers, we retire at 12:34am".. and then, Seoul, South Korea indicates "브라질, 우리는 1:13 am 안 될 때까지" which, translated from Korean means "Bite me Brazil, we don't zonk until 1:13am."

The average infant awakens 4-5 times a night. Why do they say "Sleeps like a baby?"

What does a sheep farmer count? Good question, how long does it take us to fall asleep? Found to be 10-20 minutes. Of course, more for some, less for others. I personally try to take life "good to the last drop" and I drop, and soon thereafter I'm out. It's been awhile since partnered, but I think I remember that taking a bit more time. Then again there are those "And I kept on tossin' and turnin' turnin' and tossin' Tossin' and turnin' all night." Some, students studying, adults fraught with worry admit "I couldn't sleep at all last night.. doot doo doo doo."

What do people do at 4am? EF Hutton says.. jk.. Wall Street Journal says "4am is the most productive hour." HA! I just walked by a HUGE pile of laundry.. scoffed at a half full sink of dishes.. and blogged for boogity sakes! WSJ continued "Most people who wake up at 4 a.m. do it because they have to—farmers, flight attendants, currency traders and postal workers. Others rise before dawn because they want to." And, I read further and they related "very successful people take care of many things at this hour", I tried to read even further out of curiosity, they wanted me to subscribe, I thought "Bite me", just as I do when some business chum emails wanting me to join the LinkedIn thing.. "Sorry, that pony is over the crest.. take this career and shove it."

Most murders happen between 1am and 4am, whew I'm glad I 'slept in' until 4.

I usedta work 4am until noon. I sat in Operations area at United Airlines/Kansas City. We had a 4pm to midnight shift, and once or twice a month I'd get a call around 4:15am from a (probably) inebriated worker from the 4pm start shift relating "HEY.. I jjuusst woke up, I'll be there in a sec." I always wondered if they got dressed, went out to car and found "dark." Hehe. Working weird hours does weird things to your body.

A buddy worked the overnight gig in a hospital emergency room. 4am started their 'lunch hour' where they would chum with coworkers and rehash work events from 'the evening.'.. I told ya weird, so dont' shoot me.. one such event that they rehashed was a feller that had come in to have a table leg removed from himself. Yes, you read that right. Even weirder, he came back a couple weeks later to retrieve it. Musta been some kinda affinity there woodn't you know. Story 2 was this man that had a tattoo of a ruler.. on his... well, never mind. Somehow they'd all had a peek. And no, I didn't ask for specifics, conversion tables, etc.

On Facebook, the lights never go out. Right now (5:08am) I have 7 friends up and on. At four, there were more, but they were headed the other way.

Whilst I'm hoping for local intervention, I peeked at this goofy dating site I'm on, and there were 7 within 25 miles that were online at 4am. Good gosh, what kind of poor poor pitiful me would be on a dating site at 4am? Ahm, NEVERMIND!

I should go. No, not pee trip #7, I should go as in the paper just hit the sidewalk, my Sunday breakfast joint just opened. I'm headed there, then will return for a nap. Thank you blog for getting me from 4am until now.

If you too awaken at God awful hours (never really understood why they put those two together.. God.. Awful), anyways, prior to not letting the bed bugs bite, take Sominex tonight and sleep, safe an restful sleep, sleep, sleep.

Love, Victurd.