Questions you want answered.

Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

For me personally? No. I gave in to my nature, found a job that starts late and just enjoy the night hours.

Garden Ninja wrote:
SixteenBlue wrote:

Yeah it was about Goozex or whatever it's called, whole other beast.

GF isn't free for me since I had an account years ago. I guess I could create a new one instead though.

I dropped GameFly because it, plus the pile was stressing me out. As a service, I love it, and never had much issue getting games, but I did have a pretty good variety, not just new stuff. The big issue is that they don't have many distribution centers, and they don't necessarily keep a lot of stock. When I lived near Philly, my main Distribution center was the one in Pittsburgh, and it usually took 2 days in transit, each direction to get new games (e.g. put game in mail on Monday, it gets to gamefly on Wednesday and my new game comes Friday). I looked at it again recently, and they have a dist center in Seattle, so it should be pretty quick for you, unless you only have high demand games in your queue.

I had GameFly for quite awhile and never had any trouble getting the games I wanted, but I also had a queue that consisted of more than just new releases. I recall that Elysium had a big "I quit!" article about it a couple years back because his queue was all new games and he had hadn't gotten anything shipped to him in weeks.

So, I'd say GameFly isn't a bad way to get newer games, but you might want to think about some older games you want to play as well if you want to get the most out of the service.

Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

I have been unable to. I used to start work at 1pm, but have been starting at 5am since the early fall, and while I've gotten better about being able to wake up early, I don't think I'll ever be a morning person.

Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

Sort of and no are my answers to this question. I am hoping the even tech here will move on to something else so I can get his job, but I doubt my supervisor would be willing to lose me for half the day since I am now the senior daytime tech and the dependable daytime tech.

Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

I think you kind of have to do it, and then form happy, memorable memories in the morning to like being awake at 5 am. Just think, if every day were like Christmas morning, I'd wager that most of the population would be morning people. I happen to like mornings because I used to like going to school (less menial labor that way). If I weren't going to school, I'd be hawking sweets in the street corner, or hauling buckets of water from the village pump.

More recently, I've been doing relaxing, invigorating runs in the mornings, and the skies and the trees look straight out of a storybook.

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I felt like I was running through a fairy tale forest.

Well, actually, it felt like I was about to run into a crowd of zombies, but that's almost as good, right?

LarryC wrote:
Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

I think you kind of have to do it, and then form happy, memorable memories in the morning to like being awake at 5 am. Just think, if every day were like Christmas morning, I'd wager that most of the population would be morning people.

I have wanted to sleep in on Christmas morning since I was probably 14. I haven't woken up any earlier than 8 on Christmas morning since moving out of my parent's house, and that's only because I have to be at one grandparent's house at around 10:00, and the other's at around noon.

Rykin wrote:
Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

Sort of and no are my answers to this question.

That's pretty much my answer too. I've been getting up at 5 am ever since the surgery was over because I realized that if I don't work out first thing in the morning, it doesn't get done. It's easier, but I'd still rather not be in bed by 10 pm.

I know you can be trained *out* of being a morning person, kinda. My wife has the alarm clock, and she's one of those "set the clock 10 minutes off, set the alarm way early, hit snooze multiple times" kind of people. I was the "snap awake when the alarm went off" person for most of my life. We've been married 6 years and now I don't even hear the alarm anymore and kind of naturally wake up around 7:30 anyways, which is about when I used to set my alarm.

Meanwhile, I'm having the opposite problem. I'm not a morning person, but having to get up for work had me reliably getting up with the sun. Except now I'm on a totally different schedule, and I can't stop. I've been resorting to blocking all of the lights and windows and desperately trying to sleep in.

Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

Yes, read Helen Mirren's autobiography for how.

Is there a way to slow down the movements in my GOG copy of Alpha Centauri?

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Huh. Er. Um. No.

iLOL'd

Can I but mountain dew syrup? Fountain mist has nasty saccharin in it. And I so want to like the soda stream.

Nosferatu wrote:

Can I but mountain dew syrup? Fountain mist has nasty saccharin in it. And I so want to like the soda stream.

Yes you can. Restaurant supply store or online.

KingGorilla wrote:
Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

Yes, read Helen Mirren's autobiography for how.

Did my husband put you up to that?

What does the stereotypical string between pictures on a conspiracy theorist's board actually mean? It's such a common thing in movies and television to have a cork board with pictures, articles, etc on it with various strings connecting them all when it comes to someone "tracking" a weird phenomenon or whatnot that I assume there's got to be some actual, real world reason for it to exist.

Oh, and my way of becoming a morning person involved flying to the east coast of the country and having to get up at 7am regularly. After a week or two of that coming back to the west coast and waking up at 8am feels like sleeping in.

After about a month to a month and a half of being on the west coast I revert back though, so it's probably not for everyone.

bnpederson wrote:

What does the stereotypical string between pictures on a conspiracy theorist's board actually mean?

Known links.

Yellek wrote:
Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

For me personally? No. I gave in to my nature, found a job that starts late and just enjoy the night hours.

This. I even put the alarm clock in a different room, but still get up, turn it off, and lay back down for an hour or so.

LeapingGnome wrote:
Nosferatu wrote:

Can I but mountain dew syrup? Fountain mist has nasty saccharin in it. And I so want to like the soda stream.

Yes you can. Restaurant supply store or online.

Helpful hint from working at a fast food place as a kid: Don't use the boxes to practice throwing knives. The syrup leaks slowly once the bag is punctured, and you'll come in the next morning to a sticky floor and a pissed-off boss. Or in your case, significant other.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
LeapingGnome wrote:
Nosferatu wrote:

Can I but mountain dew syrup? Fountain mist has nasty saccharin in it. And I so want to like the soda stream.

Yes you can. Restaurant supply store or online.

Helpful hint from working at a fast food place as a kid: Don't use the boxes to practice throwing knives. The syrup leaks slowly once the bag is punctured, and you'll come in the next morning to a sticky floor and a pissed-off boss. Or in your case, significant other.

Duh, everyone knows you practice throwing knives at the rack of buns.

Heh, we always put an empty box in a trash can for knife throwing.

That's for airsoft practice.

Ok. Every sci-fi or fantasy show and a few other types of shows have a "Groundhog Day" episode. So, was Groundhog Day the first movie to use the plot that they day kept repeating and only one person could tell, or is it just the most successful and memorable one?

Good question. Not sure if the Next Generation episode like that would predate the movie or not. Stargate SG-1's take on it is one of my favorites.

"In the middle of my BACKSWING?!"

Strangeblades wrote:

Is there a way to slow down the movements in my GOG copy of Alpha Centauri?

Does it run in an emulator? Usually those have a timer setting.

Katy wrote:

Can you train yourself to be a morning person? Can you do it without resenting the fact that you have to go to bed earlier?

Having a kid worked for me. I had to go to bed early to mesh with his sleep schedule and to cover for low-sleep nights. As he became better practised at sleeping through I found I was getting up naturally at 5am anyway. So I go running or have a coffee and play computer games in the quiet house. I feel like CJ Cregg in the pilot of the West Wing ("This time? this hour? This is my time. 5am to 6am") But I do kinda love it.

Grenn wrote:

Ok. Every sci-fi or fantasy show and a few other types of shows have a "Groundhog Day" episode. So, was Groundhog Day the first movie to use the plot that they day kept repeating and only one person could tell, or is it just the most successful and memorable one?

Time loops have been used in stories as far back as 1940.
The particular type of time loop in Groundhog Day (one person remembers what happens in each loop) possibly first appeared in the short story 12:01 PM, written in 1973. 12:01 PM was turned into a 1990 short film for Showtime, then a full length movie that aired on FOX several months after Groundhog Day was released.