When do YOU get out of bed?

[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.

 

[Lear2460]

Chickens...

Man...all of you are sooo lucky! Monday through Saturday....I wake up with the chickens (5 a.m.) and go to sleep with the chickens (9 p.m.).....

Unless I happen to open the freezer...and see the Vodka or Knob Creek.....

And I am so use to waking up at that time....even if I go to bed on a Saturday night at 2 a.m.....that natural alarm clock in the head wakes me up at 5 a.m., 6 at the latest!

 

[Northern Lights]

Seems like once a month or so there is a thread on here that just cracks me up! Well this is some of the best stuff I've seen for a while!

bin LAAidoff - that was classic! LOL!

So what's happening on Y&R these days? Doesn't that come on around 11?

Good luck all.

 

[Deftone45075]

You guys who get up at 11am must be morning people. It's usually 1pm before I even think about waking up. Then again, i can't really fall asleep before 3 or 4am. Those 0' Dark thirty in the morning charters really throw me for a loop.

 

[Jack Schitt]

Do you guys ever wear the same clothes two days in a row? Not that I've ever done that, but I was wondering if maybe some of you had.

 

[airgator]

Today was a 2:30 PM day. Weekends I usually wake up between 3-5. My whole goal during the week is to get up by 1:30 to catch breakfast at the local diner, I was able to make it once this week, the other days I wasn't close. I'm that guy you see at walmart shopping at 4:30 AM on a monday. Can't wait till those 5 am runs at OTS, that'll be interesting.

 

[Deftone45075]

Yeah, once in awhile when I have a 3am or 4am show for a trip, I just don't go to sleep. I find it easier than forcing myself to sleep at 1 or 2 just to wake up two hours later.

 

[Typhoon1244]

I'm always amazed by my fellow flight crew members who request a 5:15 wake up call for a 5:30 van. I need a minimum of one hour to get spooled up for something like that!

 

[I.P. Freley]

What I find most amazing is that this thread, MY thread, was dead for 16 months or so... And was then resurrected! Thankfully, I don't have to worry about my sleep habits anymore, I work 20 days a month and have not choice!!

 

[FL717]

Here's the skinny. I 'm a commuter so I usually bid commuteable lines which mean I gotta get up early, commute in and have early shows so I can commute home on the last day. At home on my days off I usually get into this rhythm here:

Get up at aroung 10:00 am. get online and check e-mail, my stock portfolio (Ameritrade), Yahoo business airline news, this website, my union website, and CBS Marketwatch. Then I go turn on CNN and see who's bombing who, then the weather channel. Then I go to HBO, or sCinemax and scan for nudity. If not then off to PPV Spank-ter-vision and see if theres any boobies.. err movies to watch. As a last resort its Price is Right (and not for Bob Barker).. not that there's anything wrong with that, just not on my watch if you know what I mean! Then its either back to bed to jump on the girlfriend if she's home.. if not well then... ugh... you know... its there.. so use it or lose it. (By the way.. its like a different woman if you switch)!!

If I don't fall back asleep, then its off to the bathroom for the three very important "S" words that begin with "SH" and rhyme with hit, flower, and pave.

Then its back on the internet to see who's bad mouthing me here at FlightInfo.. so be careful what you say.... I'm watching you know!

That pretty much sums up my day.

BTW... folks the above is not true, it was just a joke.....I go straight to PPV porn after I get out of bed.

 

[Long Time Gone]

bump


oddtodd is still at it.

Nice job.....no one has yet to notice that this thread has been ressurrected (did I spell that right?) after a year and a half of being DEAD.

Good work hiding the truth on that one, oddtodd.

And to think that most people on these boards are pilots trusted with thousands or millions of dollars of equipment but can't pay attention to the smallest detail.

 

[JediNein]

This thread has soooo much potential... at least another 20 posts worth.

 

[KingAirKiddo]

I thought this thread was great the first time around...glad to see it back at the top.

Yep, I definitely agree that there's just something about unemployed pilots and the 11AM wake up. I was on that schedule when I got furloughed, too. I'm re-employed, but still on the "furloughed schedule" during the 15 days a month or so that I'm off.

 

[Long Time Gone]

I agree that it is worth bringing up again.....I was just curious if anyone else noticed (sorry if I sounded like an *ss).

I usually try to set my alarm for 10am so I'm out of bed by 11am. As long as the unemployment covers the bills, why bother.

 

[Smoking Man]

When you just cannot hold the pi$$ in, and still sleep. That is when I get up, or if the wife tells me to.

 

[Cardinal]

Another 11AM schmuck right here. I try to get up earlier, I really do try. But at around 11 guilt and laziness finally reach an equilibrium, and it's time to go find some morning coffee to accompany lunch. I start throwing boxes in a couple weeks, in comparison that 2AM wakeup to slave for Fred Smith is going to suck like nothing has ever sucked before.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Dawn patrol

I am working now, but I was jobless for 9 months over the winter. I typically got up at 0430 to make the drive to either the north or west shore of Oahu, depending on how the wave models looked, and I'd be paddling out as first light was breaking. Surfed all morning, then go home and either brew or drink the best **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**ed ale I could muster up.

On non-surfing mornings, I'd get out of bed just as soon as I chewed off my arm... C'mon, I'm not the only one in that boat....

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

Partly due to the fact that I'm a night owl, and also due to the fact that most of our flying is through the night, I usually go to be about 3 and get up about 12.

I was furloughed once, and almost furloughed again last month. I hope it doesn't happen again!

Cliff
DTW

PS-If you're furloughed-I feel for you! Good luck, and keep trying...