Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 08, 2010

Crumb, now I have to stay up an hour later to read the comics. I hope you all appreciate this sacrifice.

;-D

Me too. Don’t Go Comics know they were supposed to turn the clock back? Or did they “sleep right through it”?

It’s funny how time changes things. When I was younger I used to come home about the time that I am now getting up each morning.

Yeah, what a waste, Calvin. Wait till you get older!

Many of us did exactly that, Cleo. LOL

G’Morning, Marg, Mike & Grog!

Well, sleeping is far better than going to school.

Marg, I’ll get my violin…

Calvin your me all over again, no that’s scary

I cannot sleep so well during the night. Before turning the clock back I awakened at three o’clock and now I do it at two o’clock in the morning, than it lasts a long time , until I can sleep again, sometimes I stay awake and cannot sleep again. Than I feel tired during the day!

Insomnia can be so troublesome, LX013.

Sometimes school is a waste of good sleeptime …

rayannina said, “Sometimes school is a waste of good sleeptime …”

I think I slept through it!

I probably would too. We’re pitiful, aren’t we, Calvin?

(It wasn’t school I minded; I loved it, mostly. It was having to get up so early!)

The time now is the normal time. You’re not staying up an hour later to read the comics, you’re just not reading them an hour earlier.

It’s 1:30AM here. That’s the same time as the new comic usually arrives here on the eastcoast! As a child of his age I went to bed around 8:00pm and got up at 8:00am even when I didn’t have school. If I had the day off from school I’d spend the mornings in the house. That was morning kids shows and cartoons, hanging out with my parents, and playing with toys. I don’t ever remember sleeping in until I was in high school!

I’ve never slept well. And now I have a fractured pelvis, two fractured ribs, and pancreatitis keeping me awake. Believe it or not, the pelvis is the least bothersome of the lot.

And I’m out of pain medication.

To thebird55…

ouch!

get well soon.

Yes, do get well soon Thebird55!

Jeremy’s friend Pierce of Zits said a few weeks ago: I consider school an 8 hour interruption of my sleep cycle. LOL

MARG Insomnia is realy evil and I don’t find anything, what will help against it!

Thebird55 How did you get so terrible hurted and ill? Good wishes from me!!!

The Bird55: I also suffer from a chronic form of pancreatitis. I cn sympathize with you as the pain can be unbearable. Fortunately for me it doesn’t act up very often. Feel better.

To The Bird55 and LX013: I hope you both feel better soon. I always considered myself an early riser (4 AM), but you all must never sleep. Maybe GoComics is the place of relief for people who suffer pain.

lonewolf - u play on Shep?

To those of you of always wondered why teachers get grumpy: reread the comments about sleeping through school and getting up early. Now multiply that by the number of students in each class, then again by the number of days in a school year (180 for me). Sometimes it’s just hard to stay positive! :D . I’m not counting the number of Calvin’s all of us encounter, either!!!

Hope all the hurtin’ people get some relief!

Calvin, I could say the same thing about going to work today.

Sorry to hear that so many of you are in pain. Hope to hear ya’ll feeling better soon. Thanks for so many laughs you all have given me. :)

Trouble with the morning is that it comes at such an un-godly hour of the night.

To The Bird 55–Have you tried acupuncture for the pain? Had a hip replacement done, and it worked wonders. After all the bones are healed, find a good massage therapist to take out all those knots. that helps a lot too.

I love the look on Calvin, second panel!

They say that sleeping outdoors is a good cure for insomnia. But then….sleeping anywhere will cure insomnia. lol.

Then you have the reverse, where you fall asleep anyplace, anytime, even while driving. I don’t know which would be worse, that or insomnia.

Love Calvin’s expression in the second panel, too, twypsi!

I echo GrinsToYa, Lonewolf and the others who wish you a speedy recovery **thebird55 and I also send the same to you LX013.

And I woke up early… seems everyone is sleep disturbed, Calvin… dang these fall mornings…

@ thebird55 - yow, I hope you feel better soon . .

@LX013 - have you tried any of these behavioral insomnia tips? ~http://www.well.com/~mick/insomnia/

@Marg - ah the prices we pay to be the leader! lol

I love Watterson’s facial expressions . . they’re the best part of the strip after his scenery. He even makes snow goons expressive!

I remember being in my twenties before I was out of school and noticed how nice the fall season was. Somehow I’d missed it in umteen years of school.

I wish I could go back to bed too. That extra hour wasn’t enough.

I echo the get well well wishes for thebird55 & LX013

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠.

Someday, Calvin, you will see that life’s too short to want to sleep it away.

Hey, it’s not like that hour is lost. It will be back in about 23 weeks.

Calvin, you never had it so good.

Bird 55Wishing you a steady recovery. Peace.

Marg I just want our time left one way or the other instead of all this fall back and spring forward bit.

The pelvic fracture is just a cracked hip socket (acetabular fracture). Nothing too bad. Two ribs, lower right side, are causing the most trouble. According to all the stories I’ve heard, this must be a very mild case of pancreatitis. More of an annoyance than a pain. But enough to keep me up.

What happened? To borrow a line from ‘Shirley & Son’, “My bike had a wreck, and I was on it.” There is a very good story about how it got replaced.

Thanks for all the ‘get well’ wishes.

i’ll add my wishes for a speedy recovery to you and LX013 even though you got back before i got here thebird55. and, having had a couple in my time, i know that bike accidents are no fun at all.

When it’s true, it’s true. This one is right on the mark! We all could use more sleep this time of year.

Now that I have celebrated the 30th anniversary of my 39th birthday, I understand the source of the expression “wee hours of the morning.”

Amen Calvin mornings are meant to be slept-through. I’m with you.

We are on the same page buddy.

I don’t sleep well at night either … and the older I get, the worse it gets too. I used to be able to sleep through a raging thunderstorm outside my window and not hear a thing. Now, pretty much anything and everything wakes me up several times a night and it’s usually difficult (sometimes even impossible) getting back to sleep again. Needless to say, I am not a morning person!

Hi everyone. I read this comic every day and also read most of the reader’s comments, too. Today, I decided to join the group and make comments of my own.

I saw all the comments about insomnia and it really struck a chord with me. I have not slept well for years myself.

Funny how when I was a kid I could sleep like a rock for 10 hours straight. Now, when I “sleep” (if you can call it that) it’s for only 3 or 4 hours at a time and I toss and turn all the while.

I don’t know how often I will make comments here. I promise that I will try to make future ones a lot shorter than my first one here…

I hate having insomnia!!! There are days that I can’t even mentally function cuz of being so exhausted… But these fall days are way too pretty for sleep!! I love it!

What can you expect of a day that begins with getting up in the morning?

How am I supposed to make coffee before I’ve had my coffee?

I can sympathize with Calvin on this subject.

I would have rather had slept than gone to school, too.

For that matter, the same goes for going to work nowadays…

El-tru-O….My husband makes the coffee as he is up before I am which makes my morning!!!

My sweet wife of 50+ years has my coffee made and sitting steaming hot on the table before she wakes me up around 10 AM, but I have yet to be able to get her to also go out and get the newspaper and have it ready for me to read. Still, I think I’m gonna keep her.

gngbfly, I’m not sure what your question is referring to.

As far as I’m concerned, civilization starts at noon, and not before. When I was in High School, I had a very difficult time staying awake in morning classes. When I went to college (The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado in case there are any alumni among you) I never had a class earlier than 10:00a.m..

On a beautiful, brisk fall day I go outside and enjoy last sunrays!

I too wish thebird55 & LX013 a speedy recovery.

I’m with Calvin, today I would’ve rather stayed in bed, but didn’t. It’s awful to wake up early in the morning when you’re a night owl like me.

@TheBird55: I’m SO sorry you’re ailing. Hope you see vast improvement in your health very soon!

I lovesleeping in but I really love the early morning when everything is just coming to life. I guess it’s the paperboy in me still.

Apparently Calvin has been messing with his time machine over the weekend… he skipped from September of 1989 to November 1990. Hey, that box really does work!

Good evening, everyone, and I hope thebird55 & LX013 are feeling SO much better by this time. I always wanted to sleep in during my working years. Now, with retirement, I find I still feel guilty if I sleep past 8 a.m….

I had a bike accident three or four years ago and that whole painful experience has made me much more careful. I ride my bike everyday, but with a whole new attitude about keeping myself out of harm’s way. Good luck TheBird55.

I’ve always been a morning person. When I did my final year of University, I wanted to take the earliest courses I could, but unfortunately most of them were later in the day or at night. My mind is mush at night….especially after a day’s work.

Wishing good health to all you ailing C&H fans. I wake up at 5 AM every day, but as a teacher, that’s what it takes to be ready by 8. BIRD55 - bike wreck or motorcycle wreck? My motorcycle wreck back in 78 was broad-siding a pickup truck while riding a wheelie! Yah, I know, dumb! The girl on the back wasn’t too happy about it either… She ended up being OK. Fortunately, I broke her fall with my head! (Yes, I was wearing a helmet which is the only reason I’m here today) My helmet was completely shattered along with a shoulder, knee, jaw bone and nose. My sleep comes mainly from a bottle of pills, but hey, you get it any way you can. As for the time change… leave the time alone! I don’t care if they leave it set one way, the other, or halfway in between. Just quit changing it back and forth. You don’t get an extra hour of sleep b/c you spend it changing the 37 clocks you have! I’m done rambling… sorry!

thebird55: Wow you really flew on your bicycle! I only flew over a hedge and skidded down the road sideways on my broken ankle about 20 feet! I can’t imagine what you had to do to sustain those kinds of injuries! Hey atleast you’ll have a cool story to share in your golden years with the kiddies! Get Well Soon!!!!

Yep, it was a bicycle. Just a simple ‘over the handlebars’ onto my right side, in the middle of the street. But it’s a very tall bike. (I’ll try to post an image of it’s replacement). Forward momentum was nil at the time, so no road rash.

Better than two years ago. Broke six ribs, collarbone, and got a little rash.

That frame makes those 700c wheels look small. Believe me, it’s a monster.

If I told you my sleep habits, you would all hate me. I go to bed about 11 and wake up at 6. Takes 5 minutes to fall asleep. Go to john once or twice, get back in bed, turn over and am gone again. Hubby said he had never seen anyone, previous wives or girlfriends who had such sleeping habits. Never read or watched TV in the bedroom. Sorry to rub it in, but almost time to wash my face and hit the hay.

Sleeping in was the main reason for sitting in the back of the class room.

lonewolf - do you play Pyramids on Yahoo, or is it another lw?

Bird, I can relate. I landed on the right side of my face off of my bike back in August. Fractured a few bones. I hope that you heal quickly.

This is so natural. Skip class for a extension of sleep.

His mom’s face had an interesting colour