Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 10, 2024

Somebody mentioned the Witching Hour yesterday.

Well, 3:34 or 3:35 would be 25 or 6 to 4

Well I guess we are all running a day ahead. Good to see we are not alone with this problem. I didn’t see Arlo in yesterdays strip, must have gotten up looking for sheep or John.

It’s that kind of thing that’s hard to explain.

That’s about the time I finally get to sleep.

I wake up at 1:30 and 4:30 most nights. I would rather compromise with 3:30 only.

As far as my bladder is concerned, 3:30 is “potty” time.

It’s when I leave the house for work

It’s 3:30 now and I am here!

What, is it about 3:30?

For me it’s 2:30

I usually wake up at 3 every morning. Mostly because I have to potty. Once I’m up, I’m up.

OMG, Right!!!

Your body is at a low point in the circadian rhythm, HR and respirations twice a day, about 3 PM and 3 AM. That’s why 3 PM you feel a lull and is a good time for a short nap. While sleeping it may cause snoring, or worse snoring, apnea, etc… causing arousal from sleep…. or worse.

I woke up at 4:30 am today with the alarm set for 5:00 am. Reading my comics is a good way to start the day.

Mine is 3:33

3/30 is the penultimate day of March – if that helps…

Up for awhile, so just reading this now at 4:30 – hoping to get back to sleep

4:44 is evil. At least in my world.

Funny, this popped up this morning. Last night we had about an hour of hard thunder and lightning. This is the time I got back to sleep, huge “fireworks” show with almost no rain.

The thing about 3:30 is that it’s well-nigh unavoidable.

Friday morning at 3:30 as the day begins

Happens to me all the time. No pun intended.

“It’s P O’clock somewhere”.

It’s the deep, deep middle of the night. It’s so late that all you can do is hang on and wait for 4:00 when it starts becoming early again.

I tend to wake up around that time too, but then I go back to sleep.

Exactly!!!

0330. Time to GET UP is what it is about. For me anyway

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isn’t 3:30 the time when Lutz went nuts and killed his family in the Amityville horror?

Playtime for puppies, which lasts until you have to go to work, then they nap.

Are Arlo and Janis in the same bed…..??

The nice thing about being retired is that when (not it) I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep, I’ll just get up. I go on line or read until I’m sleepy and then go back to bed.

I used to wake at 5:30am for work. I’d wake at 3:30, making sure that I hadn’t slept in

My Corgi’s appointed time for a whiz and bark at the deer

It’s six hours after bed time so my brain is rested, wants to think, and won’t shut up. My bladder is full, my feet are bare, the bathroom tile floor is cold, and the dog has smelled a critter in the yard. I’m not happy about it, but here I am.

My clock is my friend all night; I watch it until it gets light; something about my sleep patterns just isn’t right…

3 AM is the best time of the night. I worked the midnight shift for decades. 3 AM is the time between really late and real early. It is also the best time to go to the Waffle House!

3:30 ain’t so bad. It’s 1:30 – when you turned the lights out at 12:30 – that gets me.

It means I have to get up to pee… again.

Who knows? The time I get up for work, I find myself getting up the same time on my days off. It’s annoying and the reason I think why I’m so tired.

There’s actually science behind it. Not hitting the exact moment, but the ~3 am wake up

For me it’s 6:40. Can’t sleep in.

You’ve slept enough that it’s impossible to get back to sleep!

Back in the early 1980’s there was a small organic produce company – 3:30 A.M. Produce

Play the number on the lottery pick 3

That’s exactly the time I REGULARLY get up to have time for running before work. (Of course, it does require getting to bed by 8:30 p.m.).

For me it’s 1:23. I’m thinking of writing a short story about this happening to some poor shmuck and am trying to come up with a good plot line.

I no longer have a clock I can see the time on at night – It stopped a lot of the stress of looking at the clock worrying about getting back to sleep.

“Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, / And do such bitter business as the day / Would quake to look on.”

3:30? Bathroom break.

I solve this problem by covering the digital clock. If I really need to know the time, I’ll ask Alexa.

0400 is worse

Nurses on night shift 12 hours long. That half-nauseated coffee breath time. When one patient needs the bathroom, flushing wakes up 1 or 2 more, which snowballs into all of them needing the bathroom. Ahh, sweet memories…

That’s usually about the time my bladder is like, “Ok, that’s enough sleep. Empty me now!”

I believe that we are all cursed to wake up halfway through our slumber …

dog o’clock

Mine is 4 a.m. even if I don’t have to go…

Horizontal symmetry, if you’re into that…

03:30, when out two smallest cats begin excavating a strip mine in their sandboxes!

when you question stuff at three in the morning and three in the afternoon, you get different answers…

The same time my body tells me to get up and go…….

I am usually just getting ready for bed at 3:30 am, then I will sleep until 10 or 11 then have to get up to eat and take my morning medications and will be up a couple of hours and if still tired than I go back to bed for a while.

It’s 40 minutes before my usual time to get up.

Mandatory pee break.

Nothing, lots of nothing, lots of quiet, worrisome nothing.

It is currently 1:44 am – the shank of the evening for us and the time of day I get time to myself as he is upstairs online. It is a good thing we were friends before we started dating as that is there behind everything else.

He gets upset that I don’t let him buy me things (no birthday, no anniversary, no Christmas, no Chanukah (we are mixed). I keep telling him that he should be happy that he is the only man in the world who had given his wife everything she wants. He will go crazy when I half mention something offhand to try to find it for me – but things I want never exist.

His latest search (for the past several years) is an alarm clock I would like which does not exist – digital, large numbers (so I can see it from bed without glasses), 24 hour clock (so I don’t feel the need to keep getting up and checking that it set for am not pm – all this my clock has now and he can find – but what cannot be found is a clock that is set by pushing a key pad – push the time in (push 1 0 00 for 10 am for example) instead of holding a button in as the times pass by to change the time/set the alarm and having to keep going around the clock when I don’t let go of the button in time!