The one thing I’m looking forward to when my wife finally allows me to retire is not setting my alarm clock.
I’m a night owl not a morning person - my biological ours for sleep are ~3am-10pm - the alarm clock just adds to the challenge.
That's way too much sleep.
I always said the same thing before I retired (my dream was on my retirement day to drive up to the Grand Canyon, swing my alarm clock around my head three or for times, and heave it out into the abyss. Unfortunately I found out that that is highly illegal).
After I retired, I found that I still needed one (now in the form of my phone) to make doctor's appointments or get out early enough to do something I really wanted to do. Sleeping in sometimes blows the morning for me and I don't want to waste the time I have left. For a while after retirement I'd wake up early on my own out of habit, but that lasted about three years. Also, after I got cancer and spent some time in the hospital, my sleep patterns are completely changed.
“my biological ours for sleep are ~3am-10pm”
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So every daylight hour plus a few?
Do you have a reflection in the mirror and are you repelled by garlic? :^)