Any night owls up?

[Aristus]

I'm sober tonight, and no indica, either. Thought I'd surf DU for a while before going to bed...

[bottomofthehill]

1. dont sleep much lately. need to get on a better schedule

[Aristus]

6. I strongly suspect that the entire country has had difficulty sleeping these last four years...

[niyad]

25. A large glass of brandy before bed helps.

[Aristus]

29. Next week...

I'm on vacation starting next weekend, and I'll indulge in some brandy then.

I finished the last of the Courvoisier, but I still have some V.S.O.P.

[niyad]

33. That should definitely help you to sleep.

[Aristus]

36. Yeah.

Brandy was really an acquired taste for me. At one point, I started to wonder if I would ever acquire it. I thought I was doing everything right; I even had a snifter and a warming kit.

Then I discovered I didn't like brandy warm. So now I drink it at room temperature.

Courvoisier is an excellent brand, well-worth its reputation...

[niyad]

43. Each to their own taste. I love the whole ritual of the warming, but not before bed. Many years

ago, I used to go to a bar where the bartenders knew how to do it properly. But one night, there was a new bartender, and I watched in shock as he plunged the snifter (at least he got the glass right) into ice. I asked him what he was doing, and he explained that he was chilling the snifter. I politely explained that that was incorrect, and suggested that he seek instruction from the other bartenders.

Years later, I had a similar experience, when a bartender served my Cab-Sauv over ice. Shudder. .

[Aristus]

45. Wine over ice.

Sounds like one of those abominations that was inexplicably popular back in the '70's...

[niyad]

48. I could almost forgive someone chilling a red, in summer. .but. .over ice??

[fierywoman]

58. FWIW I had a neighbor in Venice (Italy) who used to drink Merlot over ice in the summer.

[niyad]

64. Years ago, I was reading an article by a wine expert discussing the chilling of red wines. He

commented that the dictum of serving reds at room temperature reminded him that room temp in those drafty old chateaux was roughly the same as his refrigerator. So he cheerfully chilled his reds.

[fierywoman]

67. Ha! Love it!

[Aristus]

68. The same is also true of British beer.

People who have never visited the UK sneer at the legendary "room-temperature beer" they enjoy, not knowing that the 'room' in question is the beer cellar, from which the beer is hand-pumped up to the bar. So the beer is cool enough to be pleasant, but not so cold as to spoil the flavor.

British beer is actually quite good...

[diva77]

50. My dentist said that most of his patients are experiencing inflamed gums currently. Another bit of

collateral damage to add to the heap.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Aristus, I'm still up...

I'm listening to an hour's worth of Scarlatti piano sonatas.

OMIGOD, the man could write!

[Aristus]

8. I have a CD of Scarlatti's sonatas.

Haven't listened to it in ages. I'll have to dig it out...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. You won't be sorry! This is amazing music.

Here's the link to what I'm listening to:

[Aristus]

12. Deutsche Grammofone is one of the best labels out there.

Their quality is unsurpassed...

[smirkymonkey]

32. That's beautiful, Peggy!

I am enchanted. This will be my new bedtime music.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

65. Thanks so much for telling me, my dear smirkymonkey!

It makes me happy to spread around this bit of amazing music.

[BComplex]

41. Oh! I love that!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

66. I'm so glad you love it, my dear BComplex! Enjoy the wonder of it!

[Laffy Kat]

3. On call?

It's only 10:48 here and I snoozed all day, so I'm just coming to life. Same with my boys, we are like a houseful of vampires. The night is young.

[Aristus]

10. No call, thank goodness.

We now have enough providers in our clinic group that I can go more than just a few weeks in-between call weeks. It's nice. For a while, I was on call seemingly every other week...

[sprinkleeninow]

4. 🦉

💙

[Aristus]

11. Hey!

[sprinkleeninow]

17. I keep holdin' on...

Simply Red - 'Holding Back The Years'

[Aristus]

19. I remember listening to that song on late-night radio when I was in high school.

I'd fall asleep with the radio on, and when I awoke sometimes in the middle of the night, this was often the song playing at the time.

It lends a kind of lonely atmosphere to midnight musings...

[sprinkleeninow]

23. Ya young'un! 😉

[Aristus]

28. Thirty-five years ago...

I'm no spring chicken...

Don't think I'm at all nostalgic for those times. They were uniformly awful. My parents were getting divorced, and high school life was rotten...

[onetexan]

40. Darn i love that song, &Simply Red too

Brings back lots of memories of days gone by.

[Phoenix61]

5. Watching The Rain on Netflix. nt

[mr_lebowski]

7. Hey Buddy!

It's not that late where I am ... prime time for jammin' tunes, real loud

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Yeah, but feel like this with Trump in office...

[Aristus]

14. No kidding...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. That's a pic of a sleeping owl, but I've posted it...

... more than once because it cracks me up.

I previously had no idea that they sleep on their faces, at least some of them.

[Aristus]

24. I didn't realize until recently what long legs they have.

They're usually hidden up in their body feathers.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

27. I thought the same when I first saw it!

It's easier to sleep that way because of their big heads.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Oh, heck. This isn't night owl territory.

On the other hand, don't try to contact me much before 10am.

[Aristus]

16. I live on the West Coast.

I just always seem to assume that everyone else is ahead of me, time-wise...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

61. I'm on mountain time.

My wonderful son is on the east coast, but I raised him right. He and I often talk on the phone well after midnight his time.

[csziggy]

18. Yep - I am a chronic night owl

The best sleep I get is between 2-4AM and noon. Given that we are in the final phases of construction (new addition) I have been short on sleep for over six months. Some of the crews get here at 6AM, but I am not about to discourage them from working even that early.

Monday, two trim crews (shelving and finish), a concrete crew, the earth moving guy, and a sod guy are all supposed to show up between 8 and 9 AM with accompanying concrete truck and a dumpster. It will be insane, but the house will be that much closer to finished.

[niyad]

20. It is early yet!

[Aristus]

22. I've been so tired lately, what with the clinic slammed all the time,

that I usually crash around ten, even on the weekends.

I haven't been drinking, so I'm wider awake than usual...

[niyad]

26. I wondered what you were still doing up.

[Aristus]

30. Listening to 'Reve', by Vangelis.

'Reve' is French for 'dream', and it's his most dreamlike, compelling, soothing piece. I fall asleep to it whenever I can.

The play-count for 'Reve' on my iPod is in the several thousands...

[niyad]

35. I will have to check that out. I generally listen to a cd of ocean sounds. I do miss the ocean!

[Aristus]

38. 'Reve' has Vangelis' signature mournful, watery, contemplative sound.

It takes me to a secret world no one else knows about...

[niyad]

44. We all need our secret worlds.

[Aristus]

47. Mine is coming in especially handy right now.

One more week before vacation. I haven't had more than a few days off in a row since April.

[niyad]

49. I hope that your vacation will be peaceful and restful.

[Aristus]

51. Thank you...

[3catwoman3]

31. Another night owl here. I just finished a bunch of charts of patients from...

...Wednesday that I could not do then because my computer froze up at the end of the day and didn’t get back to normal until Thursday morning, and a whole bunch more from yesterday that I didn’t get done because I ran out of mental energy. I’ve been seeing a whole bunch of teenagers I’ve never seen before because the one location of ours that they usually go to is doing only sick visits, and my office is doing only well visits.

We are supposed to ask the teens about tobacco, drugs, alcohol and sex. If they have never seen me before, why the hell would they feel comfortable answering those questions. Even the kids I know well are probably not telling me the truth. Wednesday, I had 2 14 yr old girls with past suicidal gestures, an 18 yr old who said he has 5 sexual partners, and an 11 yr old who has had 14 office visits with 10 different providers in 8 months. A 16 yr old who weighs almost 300 pounds with past abnormal labs whose mother refuses to recheck any lab work because getting the blood drawn last time “was a nightmare.” Several older teens who come by themselves, who never know family history, which I am supposed to update for every visit every time.

I am quite certain that the insurance companies never look at anything in the family history, they just look to see if the boxes are checked. I fantasize about putting in something like, “mother is a 3-legged unicorn” to see if anyone would notice.

Give me newborns any time.

Hoisting a Mike’s Hard Lemonade, which usually makes me drowsy.

[Aristus]

34. I hate clearing a backlog of charts.

It's a little soul-killing, the medical provider's version of drudgery. I feel very fortunate to have an EHR system that allows me to chart accurately so quickly, I can usually finish and sign-off on a note right after the patient visit, and before the next one.

I rarely have more than one or two charts open by the end of the day. But things have been so slammed lately, that at one point last week, I had twelve charts needing to be signed off.

[Skittles]

37. I am up all night every night

[Aristus]

39. I know...

Hope your night is going well...

[I_UndergroundPanther]

42. hoot.

Looking at threads before bed. My cat is reminding me it's time for bed...

[niyad]

46. My cat does the same to me.

[cate94]

53. My dog told me

It was time for bed and hour ago. I haven’t had a good nights sleep for 3 and a half years.

[murielm99]

52. I'm usually up.

Hi.

[denem]

54. Here you go, Aristus :)

(worst relaxation tape ever)

[No Vested Interest]

55. Still up - in Ohio- 2:37a.m.

Wish I had better night habits.
DU is my last stop before tooth-brushing, etc.

[Hekate]

57. Oh, I'm still up here in California. It's almost midnight here, so not bedtime just yet

ETA: have always been a night owl, but the past 3 1/2 years have been plagued with insomnia...

[SergeStorms]

59. Western New York checking in.

I seldom sleep more than 2-3 hours at a time. Chronic back pain has been my constant companion since 2002 when I had a spinal fusion that didn't work out too well. No alcohol allowed here, or indica (which I dearly loved) due to pain management urine testing every month. This is my life, so I'm on DU all hours of the day.

[BigmanPigman]

60. I have had sleep problems my entire life...even as a kid.

Now it is super bad. I take Ambien, Tylenol PM without the Tylenol part, Xanax, and pot. Now when I go to my dispensary I tell them in an extremely serious voice, "This IS medicinal. I must sleep. I need the strongest Indica you have (in the 90% range)". I can't drink anymore or I get a 5-7 day migraine. Vaping has definitely helped when I wake up after 4 hours and have to take all of the above again. No fun! I miss my dog who died two months ago and slept in bed with me. She kept me sane through tRump. Now it is beyond sucky.

[pfitz59]

62. me

love the night

[Totally Tunsie]

63. RI here. Just checking DU for final time before bed.

This is pretty normal for my unique circadian rhythm.

'Nite, all.