When do YOU get out of bed?

[I.P. Freley]

Hands off my girl!

Just a second here! SexyAmy69XXX is MY girlfriend! And she only charges me $24.95/mo! That's what I get for answering her mail sooner than you!

Man, you sure do get a lot done before I ever roll out of the sack...

I'm thinking of taking oddtodd's lead and calling up MCI to berate them. Well maybe berate a few regional airlines' recruiters instead? Perhaps my boss from the old flight school? Maybe call up the NYC talk radio shows and tell poo-poo jokes?

As an aside, I got ticket's to Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show", the one that's on Comedy Central. As you may have guessed, my show tickets are on the same day as my interview with (name deleted) Airlines. There really IS no God.

Guess I should be happy that I have something to do that gets me out of the dungeon, but WHY ON THE SAME DAY!? MAN am I browned off!

 

[Ty Webb]

You guys (and gals) are killing me. Glad to see everyone still has their sense of humor. I can't offer you employment, but I can offer you amusement-

Check out the website of the Onion, which is the modern equivalent of the National Lampoon magazine.

http://theonion.com/

 

[scottm]

Mark me down for a 11:00am wake up. I think it has something to do with the fact that I am working nights waiting tables but I have become the laziest SOB ever. You know you're cheap when you refuse to eat all day so you can eat for free at work that night. More beer money in the long run. Let s talk about alcohol consumption, man oh man, my liver has taken the biggest hit on this furlough. My life consists of a little TV, a little work, a lot of drinking and a large amount of internet porn. God bless the internet porn. If any of you fellow furloughed boys and girls want free porn allow me to introduce you to www.thehun.net and www.marksbookmarks.com-

God bless all of us on furlough, we will be back sooner or later, and you will look back on these days and go man, are show times what! I didnt even use to get up till noon!

 

[yipstick]

When do I get up?????????? Exactly 8 nanoseconds after that freakin' pager goes off....which is exactly 10 hours after I sign in to crew rest. Oh, yeah. I guess that means I have a job and I'm very grateful for that. I just can't wait for things to return to normal again, that is if they ever do. Good luck to all you furloughees out there. Remember, this business runs in cycles. It always has and always will.

 

[navigator72]

10:30 for me

I try and try and try to get out of bed to be a productive member of society, it just isn't working. I get up and catch the last 1/2 hour of "Maury Povich" I love the episodes when they send out of control teens to bootcamp. I also have to watch Unsolved Mysteries at 11:am, it is the early 80's episodes.
Did anyone watch Dr Phil this week on Oprah, I think I was napping at the time.

 

[FL000]

I usually can't sleep past 830am. I get up, eat cereal, watch Fox News (E.D. rocks) and have good intentions 'til noon. Then it's a sandwich and "Blind Date" for an hour. "7th Heaven" then drives me to the gym to break my only sweat of the day. Then I scramble to get all my financial dealings tackled before normal people go home at 5pm. Go back to the house, then it's anyone's guess. Ahhhhhh...life on reserve.

Airline Pilots: we do more before 10pm than most people do all day.

 

[Wowjack]

Exercise

I'd say get some exercise while you're on leave. I would go snowboarding if I was out of work. All you need is a shovel and a hill and you can build a nice size kicker to play on with your friends.

Paul

 

[airnik]

This is great!

FurloughedGal - that's awesome. After a night of bartending and waiting tables I hit the internet, check out the board while drinking my beer, and then off to bed by 2am to be up by no earlier than 11am.

I too recently had a chance to see if my Maglight I keep in my flight bag still actually works. I popped a fuse in my living room the other night (or morning?? it was around 3am) which shut almost all my power off in one side of my house. Lucky for me the Maglight still proved to be useful, albeit not for aviation this time.

 

[enigma]

11:00

I think you are on to something here. If I were you I would go straight to the library and get that Matthew Lesko book on free government money. I think that you may well be able to get a research grant to investigate this curious phenomonon.

As for me, I'm sitting in reserve in a crashpad where there are six other pilots. Four are on reserve and two hold hard lines. I have noticed that all of us reserve guys seem to stay up later and later, then wake up at about 11:00. What a coincidence. I only get up earlier to check email and a couple of bulletin boards. I would hang in the sack until 11 except we only have one phone line, and the early riser gets more on-line time without having to fight for the phone time. The only thing worse than waiting for the phone line, is waiting for the "reading room" to become inhabitable after some thoughtless b--tard forgets to light a match.
regards

 

[AWACoff]

That was funny! Every crashpad I've ever been in has been like a church in the "reading room" with all the candles. On a sidenote, I am rereading "Brave New World" currently. Talk about hitting way too close to home in light of "today".

 

[I.P. Freley]

Of drinking and internet pornography

I have to admit that I have engaged in a more-ambitious-than-usual intake of certain ethanol-enhanced beverages since the furlough... But I have to clean up in time for my upcoming interviews. No more rum drinks at 1am while laughing along with The Daily Show.

I will NOT, however, admit to chasing girls around the internet or viewing sites of a racy nature. I learned my lesson years ago... You will get all kinds of interesting e-mails as soon as you start looking at nudie pics on the web. Haven't looked at one of those sites in many a moon and I STILL get mail suggesting I go look at Naughty Nancy and her barely-legal teen friends and the moo-moos they play with in the barn.

Besides, I find myself far more interested in certain soap actresses and, God help me, the women in recent SEARS COMMERCIALS. Don't even get me started on that shampoo that promises an "organic experience".

You think AirInc's magazine would like for me to write them a humourous article cataloguing the despair and delight of the furloughed pilot? Somehow I doubt they'd print it.

 

[dispatchguy]

For this month, I have an 0300 show time (I'm a dispatcher), and I live in a crash pad just S of DFW.

I wrote on our Bulletin Board, "Quiet - 0200 wake up, and yes, I'm already pi$$ed about that, please dont make it worse."

 

[adrianh11]

I find it quite a dissapointment if I wake up before 11:00. Fortunately it doesn't happen often Afterwards the excitement continues with endless hours of web brousing, email sending and resume updates. I'm glad I'm not the only one. This string of posts is oh soooo much funnier since I am in the same boat

cheers

Adrian

 

[JediNein]

bump


oddtodd is still at it.

 

[Hawker rider]

Well I am not furloughed, but I am in just about the same routine.

I woke up at 11 until just a little bit ago, now i seem to wake up at 9:30 sharp, doesn't matter what time I go to bed, 10pm or at 4 am i wake up at the same time, I HATE taking naps during the day, unlike my wife and so far all of my co-pilots and captains....

I seem to be functioning pretty good on little sleep, only after pulling a few 14 hr duty days with 10hr flights in there, that's when I need my sleep, after painfully making some mistakes that were fatigue related. I don't take that for a joke anymore.

I love cheese, but I have never eaten government cheese yet, as I still have a pretty good ob ( at times)

M

 

[generaltso]

I usually wake up around noon-1PM. I am employed, but don't work much. I eat lunch around 4PM, dinner around 10PM, and a bowl of ceral at 3AM before I go to bed.

I hate waking up early. And early to me is before 11AM.

I think I am destined to fly freight.

 

[HAZ-MAT]

Yea, i guess 11 is the magic number, normally go to bed at 2am, and up at 11. I think the best part of the day is just beginning!

 

[poorFITgrad'02]

night riser

Nothing like being awake during the entire darkness of night. Such is the life of the freight dog. I'm up at around 1230, find stuff to do until my show time of around 5pm and my duty day typically ends around 430am. I start my day watching the sun go down and am rolling in bed as the sun comes up. The whole time my body saying 'it's morning, why are you going to sleep?' **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** sun.

 

[ShawnC]

Well I work nights at a NOC, so I sleep days for the most part.

Since very few problems happen I just spend my nights on /., Fark, and Flightinfo (just waiting until the weekend so I can go flying). I wake up at about 6:00pm.

Anyone want my job? *Waits for the calls, as he answers another idiots question.*

*In the background*

*Ring Ring*

Under my breath: "Another f***er."

*Picks up phone*

"MY SITES ARE DOWN!!!!"

"Network maintenance, as stated in our network status message." *Not said but implied* "Which of course you didn't read because your a French moron"

"DO YOU REALIZE WHAT TIME IT IS?!?!"

*Annoyed* "Yes, it's 4:45am EST"

"YOU DO KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS HERE?!?!?"

"Well mister, XXXX XXXX, your in France so it would be 10:45am there."

"This is not a good time to do maintenance, shouldn't you be doing in in the middle of the night."

*Getting more annoyed, he interrupted my movie*
"Well for 90% of our customers it's the middle of the night."

"It's not here."

"Well I could just let this network problem simmer, until it is finally exploited by a hacker causing potentially our entire network go down, when ever they choose to do it? Would you like me to do that?"

"Oh... just get it up as soon as possible."

"I will try to work as fast as possible."

"Thank you good night."

*Goes back to watching the DVD that I brought*

Just a little sample of a typical night.

 

[KATL8R26L]

time

lets see for me get up at 6:30 am , then walk the dog so she can go out side.

Then get my wife up and off to work so she can be productive for the day.

Then turn on the tv and check out the weather channel and see which girl has gotton pregant, looks like heather tesch , this time , man have you seen the ring that christen got what a big one.

Then check out the out of town lotto states to which one is paying more money, call my pilot buddies and see if any of them would be willing to split the flight , to go get some tickets.


Then , shower and head in for my flight classes, get caught up on the local airport skinny, you could turn this in to a show ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I have been doing some intervieing mainly out side sales during the last month , have had some offiers but 2 of them , well were not what i was looking for.

Well got to flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.