Trouble getting out of bed in the morning? Well, not anymore!
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A cat or dog works also but there is a maintenance fee.
AIIIEEE! SPLAT!
Air bags will do the same thing.
That’s the perfect thing to ensure that your spouse is up and has already made a pot of coffee for you.
Used to have a cat that would walk on my ribs to wake me..pain. I started keeping a squirt gun on the night stand to get him away. It would keep him at bay for 30 to 45 mins, then he’d be back. I’ve out lived him, so now I can sleep till the sun wakes me. Room darkening curtains have helped with that…low effort.
I’m only 55 but every year I get up EARLIER than before.
I would like something to keep me asleep a bit LONGER.
I’ve always been an early riser, I’m almost always awake by 4:30 AM every morning. My grandfather was a farmer, and I got my early rising from him. Early mornings are the best part of a new day. I’m also 72 and usually in bed by 9.
Of course, when I was in Navy bootcamp bedtime was 9 PM and we would be woken up by 4 to 4:30 AM so that might also have something to do with being an early riser. Initially with the company commander waking us up early rudely by yelling: “Drop your cocks and grab your socks.” And it was time to shit, shower and shave.
geoff – almost the same here. When Jesse Waters is over I retire to bed and wake at about 5. I catch Gutfeld the next day on Youtube. When I was younger I would go to bed later, but I was always up early. If I go back to sleep after I wake up, I’m tired for the rest of the day. Don’t like that at all!
Just a few things here.
1) I have a dog that has a bladder, so on those few days I dont go to work at 0430 he’s there to prevent my sleeping in.
2) I have a wife as a backup alarm to tell me when the dog alarm goes off if I somehow miss it, adding spousal ire to canine enthusiasm.
3) The type of lift he shows here I am very familiar with, having worked on cars from the ’80s to dead nuts 2000. This is an air over oil hydraulic lift, that uses a subterranian cylinder and piston that is forced up by hydraulic fluid when compressed air is used above the fluid to drive it into the cylinder. Due to bunny hugger reasons these are basically illegal now as you have an unmonitored oil-filled resevoir underground where you cant see if its leaking into the water table, and they were falling out of favor in the ’90s anyway because lifts that could be mounted flush with much smaller hydraulic tanks and electric pumps instead of air compressors became available. This freed a shop from having to excavate to install them and a HUGE amount of frog-walking to fix them if something did go wrong.
All of that, combined with the fact that in multistory houses the bedrooms are on the second floor and as such unsuitable to mound a subfloor cylinder in unless you REALLY dont care about the room beneath, suggests that this is not a practical representation of an ejection system.
The compressor kicking in prior to ejection would likely wake everyone up anyway.
Also, its not impossible to make this type of lift rise suddenly, but its not easy either. You would typically see this in the presence of some malfunction, and then not for great distances. Another reason not to use this approach.
Get with the times. Hinge one side of the bed and use a high voltage servo on the other side. Its much more controllable, much more reliable, and spares you dealing with hydraulic fluid.
Something on this order, but inverted and MUCH faster could be done. There are many other designs as well.
https://youtu.be/e58yMo2MXdY?si=QEXudC-VsE-eGc2o
With robotic precision you can decide WHERE to be thrown for your wake up. Settle for nothing less.
https://youtu.be/Kr2TDU8BskY?si=gi8dioMo220aT5yz&t=28s
Different Tim
Saturday, 12 July 2025, 8:09 at 8:09 am
“A cat or dog works also but there is a maintenance fee.”
…a wife can work even better and sometimes for very pleasant reasons, but the maintenance fees for THOSE are much, MUCH higher.
Finn and Kirby are masters at waking my daughter up in the morning. They’ve got it down pat, their internal clocks tell them it’s time to wake up and feed the cat or else and put the dog out to pee.
Kcir
Same!
I can’t attend any online meetings after 9pm because I usually get up too early. How sad is that?!
I’m like- “Will this be available tomorrow to review at my leisure?” LOL
I drink decaf. 😁
When I was in my twenties I had a terrible time with the snooze button on the alarm clock (often due to being hungover). I ended up putting the alarm clock on the dresser across the room, and wired a speaker right under the head of the bed. Hey, it worked.
SNS – good yo see you back!
In my 20’s I had a very hard time getting up, so i hacked my alarm clock to turn on my 10″ woofer kenwood stereo system via relay.
It helped me wakeup indirectly however, as it caused my mother to come downstairs and ‘yell’ me up…
MJA, I wish.
I’m still up at 12 to 1 Am as per some of my posts.
Then up at 4:30 am.
Asleep again (if I’m Lucky) at 5:30am
Then permanently up at 6:30am.
HVAC guys DON’T SLEEP in the summer Mon to Sat. Way too many nerves this time of year.
Cheers all.
Fullmetal, had a clock radio as a teen that whatever was plugged into the outlet on the back would come on with the alarm.
My stereo would be plugged in and my Kansas Album was cued on to the start of Carry on my Wayward son. That song starts loud and was very effective but the speakers on my little Lloyd’s stereo had to be replaced with an upgrade.
I lost most of my Saliva Glands due to radiation on the throat. I get about an hours sleep because my mouth feels like a dirt road on a hot summer day, take a couple drinks of water and repeat. Better than the alternative.
That sucks. Sorry to read that, Brad.
You’d think science would be more interested about restoring glands than they do cutting the parts off kids.
fullmetal256
Saturday, 12 July 2025, 13:08 at 1:08 pm
Thank you, FM256, that is nice of you to say although some would not agree as I can be a bit long and meandering.
Like this;
As you had loudness to wake you up in your 20s, so did I, but of a different nature.
As a volly FF I had a standing invitation to any and all fires and car wrecks and things of that nature even when not serving a Squad shift, and the way this invite was extended was via Plectron pager.
If you are my age-ish you have heard one if you saw the ’70s TV show “Emergency!”. They sound like this;
https://youtu.be/oblddbr2EwM?si=fP-GuY0Z3_G0uQGn
There was one set of tones for the life squad, and another for fire. if they toned both out consecutively, as for an auto accident with entrapment, the sequence could be quite lengthy (as you hear in the second sequence in the clip above). My pager resided when I was sleeping in a charging base, but that base was also an amplifier; and at 0230, that thing would split your skull with sudden sound. This was then often accompanied by me unplugging the amplifier to listen to the following voice message with problem and location data and sometimes severity (“8 Frank 80 says step it up” meant the cops were there and were themselves scared, for example), and then me thundering down the steps to jump in my car to go screaming off to the station and another entertaining night of blood and thunder.
This frequently happened early on at my parent’s house, both of whom went to work every day. Im still not sure why they didnt kill me for that alone, but they never said a negative word.
Of course this sort of response sometimes produced its own issues. One time I did all that, threw my bunker bag in my Buick Electra, set my light bar to twirling and flashing and rocking and turned to look out the rear window to back out…only to see my mom’s cat luxuriously stretched out against it on the broad trunk, unfazed by the light show or the motion and apparently deciding it was not worth losing sleep over.
So I had to step out into the self-generated red disco show and interrupt my emergency run to scoop the cat from the trunk and set her indignantly protesting in the general direction of the front porch, so I could continue my progress towards disater mitigation without further hinderance, altough needless to say with no remaining hope of being first-in on that particular emergency.
Thanks, Mittens.
Thank God we had actual first responders (not to be confused with the way they misuse that term now, but officers within the department with official, heavily equipped cars and dedicated shifts to respond to any emergency, you know, FIRST).
Happily, her neighbors were chill about it too.
…although with an air horn, an electronic siren, and an electrically operated mechanical siren I did everything within my power to disturb THEIR slumber, too…