I don’t do anything before 10AM, and whatever I do is completed by 2PM.

My alarm goes off at 5:42 AM and I'm in my office by 7:00 AM Monday to Thursday. Leave at 12:00 noon and have the rest of the day free for whatever. Yeah, I still am working. I have no idea what I would do with every day off.

I’m flexible. I’ve been retired 12 years, this last time. If there’s no pressing need and the damn CPAP isn’t smothering me, I’ll be up by 7am. I get some small things done until just about 10, then start cooking our meal for the day. By noon, I’m free to do whatever I choose to do. About 9:30, me and the dogs have done it for the day and it’s wind down time with bed about 10pm.

I have been retired for 15 months. I get up between 5:30 and 7, have my cup of coffee while catching up on the world. Sometime between then and 5 PM I do any or all of the following: lift weights, ride bike, work around the house, hike, and or play a round of disc golf or disc golf fieldwork. Around 5 PM I study languages (currently Spanish). At 6:30 I cook dinner, usually with my wife but sometimes I am the master chef.

Weekends I shoot skeet, teach skeet, conduct safety briefings at my club or work on the ranges. I am a director at my club so a few meetings a month and time spent in between.

Use it or lose it.

We've been retired 6 months so our new routines are still developing. Currently in the morning we enjoy a lazy cup of coffee in bed watching nature. Then we read emails and do a little web surfing. The rest of the morning is pretty productive. Usually in the afternoon we are about 50% productive and 50% fun.

Morning. Drives me insane that I can’t get out and shop and take care of most of my business at 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. Hate having to wait until 9:00 or 10:00 when I have been up since 4:00 or shortly thereafter.

Night person. Almost all my adult work life was night shift with a couple of miserable years of day shift thrown in but given a choice, nights will win every time.

I worked a rotating schedule for most of my 32 year career. I worked around the clock and around the calendar, so, I just go with the flow.

Some days I wake up early (somewhere between 0630 and 9 am) and some days I get up later (never later than 12 noon). Unless I have an appointment, no alarms to wake me up. I am retired, so no need for that shit.

I’m usually up around 6 and (almost) never later than 7.

Try to be in bed by 9:30 pm. I do my best with an early start.

I've only been retired for 12 years now. I get up when my bladder tells me to. Then go back to bed when the sun gets in my eyes. I have nothing to do and like it that way. If I die tomorrow, I've lived a full life. My main function in life is to be my puppies chew toy. Wish he'd grow out of it.

Except for guns, we've saved our money. I allocate myself $1000 a month to waste. I do a pretty good job of it. Take my wife out to eat once a day. With that bastard in the white house, I may not be able to afford it much longer.

I've been retired for 9 years now & I get up somewhere between 6 & 7. I try to get whatever needs done, including our two hour walk, done before lunch.

If I have a home improvement or outdoor project to do, then I'm obsessed with it & keep at it until it's done. But my wife tells me I've always been like that.

Always have been a night owl.
My perfect sleep schedule is 0200-1000.
I can force myself to adopt the “early to bed, early to rise” only if there is a tee time involved or a road trip.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
4-9; roughly

4 to 9 ... am or pm. Details matter. Just sayin'.

Three old men were sitting around talking.

One old man said, "Every morning I get up at 7:30a and have a healthy piss."

"Heck, that's nothing, " said the second old man, "Every morning at 8:30a I have to take a healthy shit and a piss".

The third old man said, "Every morning at 7:30a I piss like a racehorse, and at 8:30a I shit like a pig. The trouble with me is, I don't wake up till 11:00a."

 
I've always been an early riser, but now retired and in AZ, I'm even earlier. I get up around 1am-2am, loving the outside air and night sounds at that time. I get my Internet surfing done on the front porch, and still have early morning time for outside chores, before it starts to get hot. If necessary, I wear a headlamp outside.

The evidence is overwhelming here, a night person. I am somehow wired to enjoy a casual morning and gradually work towards completing my tasks by early evening.

Drives my girl completely bonkers.

I'm planning (or was) to retire at the end of the year. After 8 years active duty and nearly 35 years in the oil bidness, I'm ready to step away. My wife retired 6 years ago (teacher). She is in bed by 11 and sleeps to 7. Seems like a reasonable schedule to me. I'll probably do that when I retire.

Night person . . .

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Originally posted by Marlin Fan:
Night person . . .

I hear you. Unfortunately, our culture is oriented to the "early to bed and early to rise" practice. We "night persons" are considered to be lazy and unproductive. (Well, we tend to be "unproductive" in the early hours of the day, but that doesn't mean we are lazy or failing to do our jobs.) I sometimes convinced my boss(es) that having someone in the office in the early evening was a good idea and was able to adjust my work schedule.

Anecdote. After I retired from USAF, 2 of my former bosses came to Dallas and I had lunch with them. The senior one (LtCol) asked me if my current boss was as flexible to allow me to have later work hours. The other (Captain) just choked ans said: "With Dave it's more like 'malliable'."

flashguy

The joke a few posts up reminded me of another old geezer joke.

1st old man: Sure is windy today!

2nd old man: It's not Wednesday, it's Thursday!

3rd old man: Thirsty? I'm thirsty too, let's go get a cold beer! And something to look at! Let's go to Hooters!
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(We are men, we are what we are, and we want a cold beer and something nice to look at, but we don't want to go get our hearing checked)
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