I'm finding that I rarely sleep until my alarm anymore. I tend to wake well before I actually have to get up.
Me Grandpaw Hutchins used to rise at 5 each morning with no alarm. From what I've heard, many seniors require no help rising to greet the dawn.
For me, it's no longer as it was for years: the sudden, shocking, "I'm up! I'm up!" It's more like, "All right, I have now awoken. Proceed, day."
It's a Senior Superpower. I don't need no stinking alarm.
You know how computers and electronics are literal, right? You know how this includes alarms and alarm clocks? You know how you have to set the clock for either AM or PM?
Yesterday morning I slept until 8:45 or so. Upon wiping the sleep from my eyes and realizing that it was clearly beyond 7 AM, I was incredulous how I might have missed my alarm. I knew I had set it. I was certain I had set it.
Of course, I had set it. For 7 PM. I didn't pay enough attention to the practical particulars. And I'm simply glad that all I had on the docket for Friday was working at the old barn. I suppose that's what happens when you're up from 2 in the morning until 5:30 and decide to take an extra nap.
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