Do you ever get so tired that

[Mobuck]

sooner or later your need for sleep catches up unintentionally?
I've been running long hours and short nights for at least 10 days. The time crunch project ended yesterday at noon and I had 6 hours of hay field work after that. I like to watch "Longmire" on Monday nights so bedtime was 9:30(ish). When I awoke this morning it was full daylight and 6:45. Didn't have any dreams nor did Grouch Attack's clattering around @ 3AM wake me so I was really OUT. Feel much better this morning.
Already have 1/2 day of hayfield work waiting, need to shuffle the big mower/conditioner to the field so we can really get things going, have another little patch of ground that Grandson wants to plant soybeans on, and have a potential hay buyer to contact.
That statement "The only easy day was yesterday" isn't wrong.

 

[blume357]

Slow down if possible... Over the years I've worked so hard that when I got home and came in downstairs I would have to crawl up the stairs... not making this up... there is a point when you discover that there are more important things in life than just work... like watching Longmire... I'm bing watching 'Enterprise' at this time.... still can't figure out what the big complaint was over the theme song by all the trekyes. I really like it.

 

[Dave P.]

That's your body telling you that it's tired of being pushed and neglected.
I've found over the last five or six years when training for a marathon or
ultra that sleep is very important. My body can take hard training if I get
enough sleep. Short change myself on sleep for a week or more and things
head downhill.....
Dave

 

[toysoldier]

Not since I retired.

A cautionary note: If you are doing physical work, STOP WHEN YOU GET TIRED. Working when tired is when you get hurt. I have trained myself to stop, even when I'm close to finishing. Completion of a task isn't worth injury.

 

[Johnnu2]

This is precisely why God invented afternoon naps..........

I know a few who take them even though they're not retired....

J.

 

[Jeepnik]

I did for a long time. Long hours working to give my family the best I could. Even after the boys were grown I kept at it. Even after heart surgery I went back too soon and too hard. Paid for that. One day I just realized I had to slow down.

I cut my hours dramatically. Took a vacation just for me. The world kept right on keeping on. That’s when I started my exit.

Two years at normal full time. Two at part time then out. Well COVID stopped the second part after 3 months so I just retired. Oh I still consult from time to time. Long time customers really want to hang on to folks that designed systems.

In fact, I’m modifying a system to increase capacity. Things are ramping back up and they expect to increase output.

 

[blume357]

This is precisely why God invented afternoon naps..........

I know a few who take them even though they're not retired....

J.

I remember my Grandfather always took an afternoon nap... he was a farmer and got up early and worked then came home at noon and napped for a few hours and then went back.

Since I had the big one back in 2019.. it is not unusual for me to come home mid afternoon to do office work and after about an hour I find myself laying down and napping for about an hour.... then I'm good to stay up and goof off till about 9:30 or 10:00.

walk dogs for a mile, eat supper at 7:00 then go out on the front porch with wife, shot or two of bourbon and a cigar and watch the fire flys come out and wait for the solar powered torches to come on.... life is good.

 

[Fox Mike]

This is precisely why God invented afternoon naps..........

I know a few who take them even though they're not retired....

J.

Exactly! When I was still working I gave it my all, all the time. When I finally retired, the second time, I decided that whatever needed doing could be done at a much slower pace. Naps fit in that slowed pace nicely.

 

[krw]

This is precisely why God invented afternoon naps..........

I know a few who take them even though they're not retired....

J.

AMEN!! 25 min power nap after lunch make the afternoon go 200% more better!!

 

[powder smoke]

I think afternoon naps is a good thing! Sooner or later I think I'll get to find out for sure!
I Think next summer will be when I'll try it. My buddy Eric cons me into work way too often!
Got two houses to build this summer foundations are in, away we go! Heck I'm 69 ready to take a break!
This IS MY LAST Summer working! This time FOR SURE! NO IF AND'S OR BUTS ABOUT IT. ps

 

[turd]

Took me a lot of years and two careers to figure out what I am really good at. Napping. :mrgreen:

 

[Paul B]

Only one time, a very long time ago. Recently divorced, child support and two car payments. I was working the graveyard shift at the post offing and when I got off work I started my second job on the waterfront as dock clerk checking manifests as ships loaded and unloaded. Where I got somewhat lucky was my days off at the PO was Wednesday and Thursday and Saturday and Sunday on the "front. Then one day for convenience to the government the PO changed my days off to Saturday and Sunday. Grrrr! It didn't take long for that to catch up on me as on Saturday I went to bed when I go off and didn't wake up until late the following Monday. My foreman on the front was POed and my boss at the PO was POed. Me, I was just flat out exhausted. I told my boss at the PO that if you hadn't changed my days off that wouldn't have happened. I've made sure that I've never gotten that tired again.
Paul B.

 

[blackhawknj]

Anyone who has gone through Basic Training-or combat.

 

[tinman]

Anyone who has gone through Basic Training-or combat.

.......this......

We would take little cat-naps whenever possible. During longer missions the entire plane load of troopers would usually be asleep even before we went wheels-up.

 

[GA Cracker]

There comes a point in our lives when we have to make personal decisions. With the 4th of July coming up one of my employees asked me what I was doing on the 4th? My reply made me realize I was not in control of my life. I replied "If you haven't noticed I work all holidays because all of you have "choice" vacations guaranteed due to your national union agreements" and at that moment made a decision to control my life. Thirty minutes later on the last hour of the last day of a retirement buy out offer I sent me retirement papers overnight mail. I had recently worked 187 hours in two weeks and two days (didn't work either Sunday). Many people work hours like that daily and probably scoff at my statement. However I was on salary and got paid for 160 hours in 4 weeks. I was OCD in my work to give service and be the best. Shortly after my retirement the Hazlehurst office became the Number One Mystery Shop office in the entire country. I started the program, most of the scores were under my management, I hired and trained all of the employees but one and hired and trained my management replacement. All that was great but when my daughter severely broke her leg after graduation I couldn't be there for the surgery. My fiancé's mother was dying at hospice and I was told I could be there if I could find someone to cover for me. I am proud of my career but I realized my career controlled my life so I took control of my life. I had to sacrifice but I took control of my life. My eye twitched every day at work. From the time I sent in those papers the only time they twitched was two days before my last day when I didn't want to leave anything unfinished and have everything completed and thought I wouldn't accomplish that goal. Life is a choice and sadly my goal to be the best hurt many that I love. I saw my brother on Saturday and on Sunday at the age of 49 he was gone. Are you giving enough time to those you love and work for? We all have different circumstances in our lives that have an affect on our choices. In the end our choices are our lives. Everyone is different and this is still America and we all have the right to choose. I am CERTAINLY not saying my choice is right for you. I know it was right for only me. We have to evaluate how our choices impact those that we love but most of all we have to make choices that makes us happy and content individuals in our hearts. I have lived where I worked 7 days a week, due to circumstances beyond my control, to care for my family with only two shirts and two pair of pants. I know we face situations that controls how we work but my prayer for all is for you to be happy, content, and in control of your lives. If working all the time makes you happy then by all means be a workaholic! I respect any man that works hard.

 

[bogus bill]

Did over 35 years as a 65 hour week average graveyard guard. Couldnt have done it if it was a harder job like mattress testing. If caught having a "power nap " say amen before opening eyes.
The younger guys found it harder. You have to protect your sleeping hours. Was it worth it? Right now I have been 7 1/2 months on hospice. Paralized along with a rare disease MSA All the guns I worked for are gone, motorcycles, ATV`s two airplanes gone too.
Biggest regret is I didn't take much time off to use them. I doubt I will be here in two weeks. Oh well, I am over eighty.

 

[OVERLOADDED]

Did over 35 years as a 65 hour week average graveyard guard. Couldnt have done it if it was a harder job like mattress testing. If caught having a "power nap " say amen before opening eyes.
The younger guys found it harder. You have to protect your sleeping hours. Was it worth it? Right now I have been 7 1/2 months on hospice. Paralized along with a rare disease MSA All the guns I worked for are gone, motorcycles, ATV`s two airplanes gone too.
Biggest regret is I didn't take much time off to use them. I doubt I will be here in two weeks. Oh well, I am over eighty.

Get your affairs in order. Get that card punched everyday. May God bless you with the grace of his son Jesus Christ. Overloadded

 

[bogus bill]

Thanks! I have done that and do that daily. My biggest concern is when my wife finds me. She boke down just minuets ago over it. (again) Hospice has been great. They send a nurse twice a week and lady to bathe me three times
a week. I was single most of my life. She is almost 17 years younger. We been married 17.5. ([t`s Utah).

 

[Mobuck]

My work week ends/begins @ midnight on Saturday. The last 3 weeks, I was on overtime by Thursday morning. That's not counting chores and farm work. Work is going to throttle back big time until mid-August and I'm 1/3 of the way through hay harvest with the expectation of being mostly done within 4-5 days barring rain delays. After that, my older Grandson is visiting so probably fishing, shooting, and maybe a little trip.
I've spent my life trading my time and effort for $$ and simply haven't been able to make the change.

 

[Pat-inCO]

The largest fallacy ever penned is for body builders:
No pain, No gain. - - - By the time it hurts, you've done FAR too much.

 

[GA Cracker]

Did over 35 years as a 65 hour week average graveyard guard. Couldnt have done it if it was a harder job like mattress testing. If caught having a "power nap " say amen before opening eyes.
The younger guys found it harder. You have to protect your sleeping hours. Was it worth it? Right now I have been 7 1/2 months on hospice. Paralized along with a rare disease MSA All the guns I worked for are gone, motorcycles, ATV`s two airplanes gone too.
Biggest regret is I didn't take much time off to use them. I doubt I will be here in two weeks. Oh well, I am over eighty.

May you have some quality and peace each day and may you have as many minutes and hours and days as possible. In a lower post you said you know The Father. May you find peace in that! I noticed my father was different and not as good a few days before his death. Dad finally admitted that on the previous day his chest hurt so bad for an hour and twenty minutes that he could barely stand it. With tears I asked him why didn't he tell me? He replied I asked God to take care of it and He did. My dad's body was so painful to him he wanted to go on out. If you have no pain and wish to live I pray you have each and every moment you can. May the two of you have very special moments together. Soon you will have a new body and more happiness than guns, motorcycles, atv's, and airplanes can bring you. Maybe I will know you when I get there. Peace to your wife and to you! Coite Dent/GA Cracker

 

[bogus bill]

Thanks GA. I have no pain aside bed sores etc. This disease affects everything. I have lost about 140 pounds, a lot of eyesight, hearing and all apatite. It gives you low blood pressure. Thats why I have fell many times. I got so bad that I would pass out with two people trying to lift me off the bed. In the past I use to vary between 245 to over 300 lbs. Now I look like a death camp prisoner.

 

[bogus bill]

I had a friend that drove truck. He stopped at a rail crossing for a train. He quit when he noticed there wasnt even a train track there!

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Bill, please let someone know how to get on the Rugerforum and your password so they can keep us posted, as things go along. Prayers for you.

 

[GA Cracker]

Thanks GA. I have no pain aside bed sores etc. This disease affects everything. I have lost about 140 pounds, a lot of eyesight, hearing and all apatite. It gives you low blood pressure. Thats why I have fell many times. I got so bad that I would pass out with two people trying to lift me off the bed. In the past I use to vary between 245 to over 300 lbs. Now I look like a death camp prisoner.

My father became a skeleton with skin probably 80 pounds at death from 195 a few years before his death. I know the look of a death camp prisoner. But you are not a prisoner and soon you will soar. Having been with several at death you will not leave us until your spirit is ready and you are ready to let it go. I was talking with my father and holding his left hand telling him how tough he was and asking him to let it go. The previous night he couldn't even hold his head up when it fell over. I never slept a second sitting in a chair by his bed and I used my head on his pillow to hold his head up straight. I looked at his face and he wrinkled his nose at me and slightly smirked as was his way. It was the next day when I was asking him to let go. He started squeezing my left hand with his left like shaking hands like a very strong healthy man until his head and shoulders lifted off the pillow. I started chuckling and told him I guess he was showing me he wasn't ready to let it go. I have tears now and also chuckle with that memory. I can picture and sense your pain. But you will be here until you and your spirit are ready. I pray when that time comes you will have great peace. For almost 3 weeks at the hospital and then hospice I would arrive 8 pm and leave the next day at noon and never slept one minute. God got me through it but I would say tell all those you love all you can with what energy you have and that will help them when your gone. My heart aches for you and I know not what words to say, at a loss to help you in any way and feel so helpless. Just take comfort in knowing you will be in God's hands where you will ache no more. if you need someone to talk with call me anytime. 912-253-8790. I may not be able to say anything for I have great compassion for people but Know I will be praying for you and I know many many people on this forum are praying for you to have comfort in your body and peace in your heart, mind, and soul and peace to your wife. Bless her Lord because it feels so helpless to love someone and not to be able to comfort the one you love.

 

[Mobuck]

I guess I'm not as beat down as others. Don't give up. Don't run away. Stay in the fight to the last bullet.

 

[Johnnu2]

We ought to all say a prayer for all our forum brothers and sisters who might be suffering.... I don't go to church, but I do say that prayer for all .... every morning.

J.