Help I am Becoming a Vampire!

Stop Me Before I Harm Myself !

[King_Fisher]

I use to work the regular 9 to 5 gig in the real world.

Then I quit to do Adwords/affiliates/Adsense full time.

At first I kept the old routine of 9 to 5. Then it started to be 11 to 8.
then 2 to 10. Now (sob!) its turned into 10 PM to 4 AM. I enjoy the quite
and solitude of the night hours. Then I sleep till noon. Its great for me
and productive but is playing havoc with my home life. The other day I caught
my wife sharpening a Holly stake.

Is there any help for this affliction? Are there any others out there who avoid
silver crosses, garlic and mirrors. I don't like to go out in the daylight anymore and all of a sudden have a longing for tomato soup and ketchup.

Short of a silver bullet is there any help from this imbalance of day and night?

Help me as I dont look good in a cloak and pointed teeth!...KF

[vincevincevince]

Great humour on a serious issue which has affected most of us.

Things I've used include:

Using 'time-of-day' filtering on my modem to block the internet after xPM

Setting many alarms to ensure I'm awake at the target start time of yAM

Using a crude timer socket from IKEA to turn off power to the modem after xPM (on a later modem without time-of-day filtering)

Making a deal with my wife that I'd get up in the morning in return for a full fried breakfast

Looking back, it's the last of those which was the most effective, so try it... introduce your wife to the power of sizzling sausage, bacon, eggs, black pudding, beans, fried tomato, wholemeal toast and mushrooms upon your will to remain in bed!

[Atomic]

As long as you're happy and there are veins to drain does it matter as long as the work gets done?

[Khensu]

Nah, your just Nocturnal by nature, just flow with it.

If I am marketing or doing business 6 am to 10 pm and work in the am. Soon as I start creating I switch to noon till 4am with work starting when the sun goes down.

My girfriend is also on the Adsense dole and doesn't work so she don't care.

Just waiting for my new quad dual processor mac, that 8 3 gig chips (24 gigs) of processing power in one box (40" monitor). Doing a graphic novel this fall with sort of like Dr Strange, shoud be cool.

Vampire? I would say so.

[Jane_Doe]

I don't like to go out in the daylight anymore

I'm a night person, too. Last year I had nutrition testing done and found I had a vitamin D deficiency. That was quite a wake up call to get out more during the day. This year I made sure to get out enough to get keep a bit of a tan all year long.

[icedowl]

I am a night owl. I work the graveyard shift, sleep during the day and work on my sites throughout the evening until I need to take a break and do something else. The night is good for me.

[Marshall]

Some of the greatest things were discovered at night:

the Moon

Stars

Sunrise

to name a few. If it wasn't for night owls, we wouldn't have a 2am drive through at McD's or fresh donuts at the bakery first a.m. Night owls are the backbone of the world!

Marshall

[buckworks]

Dawn is Nature's way of telling you it's time to go to bed.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Looking back, it's the last of those which was the most effective, so try it... introduce your wife to the power of sizzling sausage, bacon, eggs, black pudding, beans, fried tomato, wholemeal toast and mushrooms upon your will to remain in bed!

Be careful, this is a heart attack on a plate you are proposing. Nice, but you shouldn't eat it every day (... and the wholemeal toast does not get you off the hook). ;)

[Roseb44170]

Sorry to the original poster but like some of the others have said I am also a night owl / nocturnal person too. I remember working the graveyard shift at radio stations and at a good amount of jubs that I have had.

I just go with the flow!

But if it is really a problem for you then you are just going to have to work harder at keeping more "business-like" hours.

[vincevincevince]

10pm, just getting into the swing of things here. Difference being that I've a 3 week old baby so day and night have no meaning any more!

[callivert]

Short of a silver bullet is there any help from this imbalance of day and night?

Silver bullets are for werewolves.
Your weaknesses are garlic, sunlight, holy water, stakes through the heart, and really hot college girls with names like Buffy, Willow, Faith, etc.

[callivert]

seriously, the best cure is an alarm clock and a morning exercise regime. I'll bet my bottom dollar that you're not getting enough exercise.

[pageoneresults]

Dawn is Nature's way of telling you it's time to go to bed.

Sunrise is Nature's way of telling you it's time to get out of bed. :)

I'm up before the sun comes up and in bed before the vampires come online.

King_Fisher, I see you were up early last night?

7:33 pm on Aug. 31, 2007

[edited by: pageoneresults at 2:35 pm (utc) on Sep. 1, 2007]

[vincevincevince]

seriously, the best cure is an alarm clock and a morning exercise regime.

Cough, cough, fried breakfast, cough cough. I bet my bottom dollar you're not eating enough fried animal in the morning to make it worth your while getting up early...

[Essex_boy]

I to am like you in this respect, in the summer i love it.

I can sit out on my balcony overlooking the whole of Colchester watching teh city go to bed and then come to life.

And you do see some strange behaviour as well...

[akmac]

If I woke at sunrise and went to bed at sunset, I'd get 4 hours of sleep/night in the summer and 20 hours a night in the winter (at the extremes). My northern neighbors would have an even more extreme sleep schedule.

I'll stick with smacking the snooze button from 6:05-6:30.

Mmmmm, Bacon...

[jimbeetle]

Short of a silver bullet is there any help from this imbalance of day and night?

Age did for me ;-). For 20 years or so I was a work 'til all hours sleep until noon type. Then six or seven years ago I found myself knocking off earlier and earlier. I'm now firmly in the daylight camp, even getting outside sometimes when the sun is shining.

[pageoneresults]

Age did it for me.

Yup, as we get older, we tend to become Daywalkers. Plus, your body chemistry changes and those long late nights just aren't what they used to be. Recovering from them is even more difficult. ;)