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Microtus

Microtus

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Military guys probably own this. Went back to California on Sunday for a funeral, busy schedule and about 10 hours sleep in 3 nights. Couldn't sleep and got up at 0100 on Wednesday morning, flew to Detroit and plane landed too late to catch my connecting flight. Chilling at the airport until my rescheduled flight tomorrow morning at 0700. Currently at 38 hours and probably won't sleep until I get home around noon tomorrow.

Detroit airport is a shit show. TSA screening line was over 400 people deep. All their sniff dogs seem to be German Shorthairs. No vouchers from Delta and the hotel here is $400/night.
 
Did that a lot working in Alaska

I am old now, and don't have any patients for it, I used to know when I really over did it is when I was so tired that I couldn't sleep, take a break dude

Sorry about the funeral part, I have one tomorrow to go to so I feel you
 
Microtus said:
Military guys probably own this. Went back to California on Sunday for a funeral, busy schedule and about 10 hours sleep in 3 nights. Couldn't sleep and got up at 0100 on Wednesday morning, flew to Detroit and plane landed too late to catch my connecting flight. Chilling at the airport until my rescheduled flight tomorrow morning at 0700. Currently at 38 hours and probably won't sleep until I get home around noon tomorrow.

Detroit airport is a shit show. TSA screening line was over 400 people deep. All their sniff dogs seem to be German Shorthairs. No vouchers from Delta and the hotel here is $400/night.
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Get a cheap car rental.
Get out of airport area.
You can get a decent hotel for 65 to 100
 
I've bone probably 3 days / 72 hours no sleep.

NOW Though... Like within the past month ... when insomnia hits, and it's 3:30 AM and I can't sleep it triggers a weird panic attack. Like a legit panic attack where your brain tells you you're going to die. I can talk myself off the ledge, take some breaths and somewhat recover, but it's strange and kinda scary. I give it 0 out of 5 stars... Would NOT recommend.
 
Have skipped sleep over the years for a variety of reasons. 48hrs isnt too hard, provided staying active and not at a desk. 72 hrs starts getting hard, need to have an active purpose, no sitting or driving. Usually I found skipping sleep can be offset a bit with an extra meal. Did get into the 4th day once, but found the recovery from that wasnt worth it.
 
I've done 8 hours working 16 hours fucking off several times, hell I've drank 16 hours straight after 8 hours of work :homer:.

Longest working was 22 hours, sleep for 1 hour then work another 10.

I've been up since 7pm last night because I had to work at midnight and couldn't fall asleep.
 
Couldn't even tell how many times I was out drinking all night then went straight out to do a 5-10 mile run and work all day.

One time I drove from N Charleston, SC to Santa Monica taking the southern route in 44 hours, even stopping for dinner with friends in El Paso.

I was sick flying to Korea, so I was up all day traveling from Nashville to Chicago to SeaTac, then up all night in the airport to catch a 7 am flight to Osan AB, South Korea, where we landed at sunrise 2 days later (crossed the date line) and traveled to CP Mobile before finally stopping to sleep, but I couldn't tell you how many hours over those 3 days due tot he numerous time/date changes.
 
I do 30-36 hrs because i work nights then go on parts runs.

Ive gotten on planes and slept through take offs only to wake up @ touch down.
 
baja 1k ran about 48 hours. Can't say it wasn't all without sleep as there were some naps but I crashed afterwards.
30-32 hrs is I think what it was non stop.
 
In a row? Honestly no clue. But I do know that when my daughter had colic as an infant and we were living across the country from any family help that I was so sleep deprived over those weeks and months that it was crazy. Like I felt hammered drunk. That level of uncoordination. More confused than Joe Biden on a debate stage. It's crazy what chronic sleep deprivation can do to you. It's damn near incapacitating.
 
Longest I went was 4 days working on a project. In this industry it's not that uncommon to go at least a couple days without sleep, especially during crunch time. Nowadays I'll do an occasional all-nighter every now and then, but I really try to avoid it as much as possible. Getting too old for that shit.

If we're out hunting pigs, it's common to stay up all night, but I'll usually head back in the morning and sleep for a few hours before getting back up and going out again until the next morning.
 
In my early 20s I decided to go back to school. I refused to do a student loan. I saved for about a year to get started and then worked midnights and went to school during the day. I averaged about 3 hours of sleep a day through the week. I crashed hard on the weekends.

38 hours straight is about as long as I've gone without sleep. That was during a plant expansion. I went to my truck in the company parking lot and slept for about 4 hours and then drove home.
 
36 is/was not uncommon, over 42 hours and I start being useless.
 
If I get 35-40hrs sleep a week I'm doing decent.

Have worked 2 jobs, days and nights several times, sleep 4-5hrs between them.
 
Microtus said:
Military guys probably own this. Went back to California on Sunday for a funeral, busy schedule and about 10 hours sleep in 3 nights. Couldn't sleep and got up at 0100 on Wednesday morning, flew to Detroit and plane landed too late to catch my connecting flight. Chilling at the airport until my rescheduled flight tomorrow morning at 0700. Currently at 38 hours and probably won't sleep until I get home around noon tomorrow.

Detroit airport is a shit show. TSA screening line was over 400 people deep. All their sniff dogs seem to be German Shorthairs. No vouchers from Delta and the hotel here is $400/night.
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I got yelled at giving a sniffer dog a scritch. Dog came up to me, I didn't even think about it till TSA dude freaked like I just kicked the dog ir something.

Fuck you TSA, good boys all need scritches.
 
Working nights and too dumb to sleep days 20 years ago. Probably 40-something hours in, headed home to crash, I kept changing lanes to avoid the saucers landing in my way. 👽

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That's what I get for listening to Art Bell.
 
I have done a couple of 24 hour stints working below deck and not comming up for air (step outside). Worked a couple of missile shots that dragged on for a couple of days. Fucking eyeballs start clicking; wierd shit feeling. :eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
Filthy McChevy said:
Its fun driving and seeing a Semi next to you pop a wheelie!
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Or when you’re at a light zoning out and think… hey! why is that truck driving forward through the red light but it’s really you rolling backwards in neutral.

36 hours is where it gets hard for me. I have to be super motivated to do anymore. Get a third wind at 48 hours and a 2nd crash at 40 hours.
 
I work a job where when I hired we had no hours of service restrictions, we would go 7 days straight during storms, typically doing a solid 36, cat nap 3 or 4 then settle into a rhythm of 30or so with a couple hr nap.

Then they instituted 32 on with a 6 hr mandatory break and we screamed bloody murder, we were being robbed. But again during storms we would do 32 on and an 8 hr break as a steady diet during storms. there were limits to how long we could maintain that.

The latest restrictions are 24 on 8 off, and that is pretty easy to do, Again only during storm conditions.

Non storm, I usually do 120 hrs or more in an 80 hr pay period and annually I usually track about 3200 hrs a year or more over the last 15 years.

I will say when I'm off for a length of time on vacation, getting back into the pattern is a bitch.
 
DRTDEVL said:
One time I drove from N Charleston, SC to Santa Monica taking the southern route in 44 hours, even stopping for dinner with friends in El Paso.
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Respect, that’s what 2200 miles? I make it to somewhere around Nevada before I can’t handle the monotony. Nebraska also is a challenge
 
subybaja said:
Working nights and too dumb to sleep days 20 years ago. Probably 40-something hours in, headed home to crash, I kept changing lanes to avoid the saucers landing in my way. 👽

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That's what I get for listening to Art Bell.
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Up most of a weekend working the pits for my boss, heading home from Peublo Co in my land crusier. We stopped in SantaFe for coffee and a donut, I swear she must have doped my coffee because Once wewere past the SanteFe city limits, I saw Bill climb out driver's side window get in the back of the pickup, then on to the trailer make his way around the 356 then start waving at me to get closer, in fact I even saw him put his hands on his hips and start yelling all at 65 MPH of course everytime I would try to get closer the truckj would go faster and leave me. His 9 year old was a sleep in my passenger seat, I swear I was shaking him so hard his head looked like a rasg dolls and he would't wake up! We fianally got to the outskirts of Alb Bill pulled over so he could get his son, when came bck he wanted t know what the hell was going on. So I told him he wanted to know why did't I signal to pull off, I thought you were trying to get me to hurry up
 
Used to regularly work Friday afternoon through to Monday morning shopfitting.
We'd have everything built off-site and ready to go and then strip out and re-fit a cafe or small retail shop over a weekend.
This is nearly 30 years ago, doesn't happen anymore as all the shops and shopping malls are open 7 days a week.
 
DRTDEVL said:
One time I drove from N Charleston, SC to Santa Monica taking the southern route in 44 hours, even stopping for dinner with friends in El Paso.
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That's got me beat. I did Damneck, VA to my house in WA in 58 hours. I did stop once in Iowa and once in Montana and got about 6 hours of sleep each time.

Another time I did Chicago to Liberty, WA in just under 24 hours. I stopped and picked up a hitch hiker along the way in North Dakota to keep me entertained. Dropped him off in Cle Elum, Wa.
 
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