GraveYard Shift BS

I just have a "sleep room" black out curtains, portable a/c for in the summer. It's dark and cold. Some days the sun is coming up on my drive home so i have to learn to deal with my body waking up at seeing light. I tried melatonin (sp) but seemed it didn't do much.

 

Haha 2 goodys and a red bull and I'm good for 12 hours!

 

Melatonin works ok sometimes for me if I take a day or two off drinking

 

The best is mid winter, I'll open the windows upstairs before work and when I get home it'll be 40's in there. Close em up and crawl under covers. I sleep best then. Summer when it's 90's at 6 am I need the portable a/c to cool that one room to sleepable temps.

 

Yeah I leave the heater off/set real low in the winter. Summer I have the ceiling fan and tower fan almost on full blast

 

If it gets too warm, I just get up and lounge on the couch. The wife will not go upstairs when I open it up. Anything less than 80 and she's cold

 

I run the fan full blast in winter lol. Love the cold when I'm sleeping. My master bedroom is in my basment(weird I know) so it stays substationally colder. 73 upstairs=55 downstairs. And I still run the fan lol

 

At one point I think the lowest I got my sleep room was 38. and it was awesome. cold for a few minutes until i'm under the blankets and then I'm out.

 

Yeah both fans are running 24/7 365. The tower fan is mainly for white noise. Jealous of the master bedroom in the basement setup.

 

Not too many basements around here. It's all Limestone 3 inches down. And that is expensive to dig/remove. My sleep room is a spare room upstairs. and yes, whitenoise is a good thing.

 

Yeah that's one thing I wish Texas homes had more of was basements.

 

My 2 year old has a sound machine that is always set on the sound "rain" so I'll go steal her baby monitor and set it beside my head when I sleep. Knocks me out like a light.

 

I love my basement. Perfect man cave set up for me. No one is my house ever sleeps down there or really even goes down there but me.

 

Night shift dif isn't good enough to afford one But I do miss having one. and we want a dark room for a projector but that's hard to come across too.

And sound deadening dirt all around. Temp controlled as you said. My room growing up was always in the basement.

 

Yeah I'm hoping that if we move out of state we can get a basement. North Carolina is on the short list

 

Watch out @luco1029, you'll have a new neighbor I enjoyed South Carolina for the time we were there. Down in Charleston. Beaches were nice. Humid as all get out. The scale started at 100% there.

 

Well my type of job kinda needs to be 24/7. Even if the majority of all my shift includes me just sitting here trying not to fall asleep and watching netflix.
Public safety for a university. Need to be here for the unlikely emergency.

 

And night shift is probably more so needed than dayshift for that...

 

Ha the humidity can't be much worse than college station/southeast Texas

 

@Taco16Jessy That's an awesome profile pic!