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To Timeshift Or Not To Timeshift

Damn. I need to shift my clocks again.

Most people don't know this but, even living in CA, I live on east coast time. For about 5 years now, all my computers and clocks have been set 3 hours ahead of my neighbors. Everybody else at my company starts work at 8AM. I start at 11. They don't know.

But, man, I took a full-time job recently. And I remember this from the last time I had a full-time 9-5 job back in 1995... it's exhausting. A full day of selling your time, the discipline required to do anything with my evening other than recuperate is beyond me.

So, I'm thinking. Let's see, I get off at 7:30 Mike Standard Time (4:30 Pacific)... I go to bed around 3AM Mike Standard Time (Midnight Pacific)... if I shift my schedule 7.5 hours earlier, I could have my full evening…