I worked rotating shifts for a few years, and currently work really odd shifts for ~3 months at a time.

After the rotating shifts, and in between the odd shifts I work now, I transitioned back to a regular day cycle pretty quickly; usually within a few days.

If you can take some PTO before starting your new role, consider going to sleep shortly after sunset, and leaving the shades up so you can wake with the sun for a few days. Try not to use bright house lights in the evening, and try to not to use an alarm clock to wake up, just use the sunlight.

Doing this gives your circadian rhythm a hard reboot which makes it much easier to transition back to a more socially common day life.

Go get your basic keelboat cert to lock down the basics. Then do a bunch of beercan races until you’ve got the hang of it.

Volunteer to crew anywhere and everywhere.

You’ll be a salty dog in no time.

Ensure you have multiple layers of ad blocking. A winning combination blocks first at the DNS level, then at the browser level, and finally at the element level.

AsGuard DNS, uBlock, and ABP.

I virtually never see ads.

Sailing is a liberating and exhilarating experience. I love it very much, and I’m sure you will too.

This is just on the outside edge of A Clockwork Orange.

It’s easier than you think! You can get your basic keelboat certification in about a month at a training place. Usually only takes four weekends. Once you have that under your belt, you’ll be able to rent at places and get some experience. The fundamentals of sailing don’t change, though with a bigger boat you will need to exercise some caution.

You can do it!

They make money on the penalty default rate. They know what the average rate of default is, and they know how many people they plan to sign up. On average they make money. The 0% is to draw large numbers of customers in knowing that some percentage will default and of that percentage they will be able to collect on yet another percentage. This is why the default rate is like 24.99% or something silly like that.

Good bot.

Sailing around the world on a sailboat.

My buddy has one of these just sitting unused, and I am super tempted to hook it up and watch the discs he has.

Oh man that’s awful. The best note system is the note system one actually uses. I had no idea how to take adequate notes until I “discovered” Cornell NTS during my second or third college attempt.

The original NFT.

For #2, a hard-coded 3 days doesn’t scale well. Use a divisor, like 10 or 100 and divide the purchase by it then wait that number of days.

$300 headphones? Three day wait at a divisor of 100, or 30 day wait with a divisor of 10. You could even key it to your hourly income and then it also scales with how much you make. At $7.25/hr that $300 purchase should wait 41 days. At $25/hr it’s 12 days; this also allows one to make incremental savings to pay for it outright.

Yeah it was early when I typed that. The sets should have been (1) things I’m willing to touch and (2) scorpions.

My personal Venn Diagram of scorpions I am willing to touch and scorpions I will avoid are two completely isolated, non-intersecting circles.

Wild there’s been an all-or-none implementation all this time.

This is what notification profiles were built for. Set it to work/school/whatever and select who you want to get through and notifications are delivered, all else are silenced.

I even have one called “Blackout”. Nothing gets through, no one is approved, everything is silenced—for when I absolutely must not be disturbed.

His timeout would be over by the time she finished calling him

What any reasonable person in the same situation would do. You burn the house down.

Here go the price of eggs again.