That sounds right. I remember spending a few days in the Oklahoma panhandle in mid June and it would stay light until around 9:30. They are on the trailing edge of the Central time zone there.
Indiana fits basically between San Francisco and the Northern California border. On the solsitice Indianapolis gets about five hours of darkness. Astronomical twilight adds about 1.5 hours to that.Sunset is at 9:16, but it doesn’t get dark until 11:18.
My daughter’s bedtime is nominally 8:30, but effectively 9:30.
Everywhere south of us is Central.
I’m not sure what changed but I’m getting an extra hour of sleep now and sometimes it’s easier to stay up later so I’m not waking up as early. Watching TV helps, but I’d rather read if I could. No luck on that front.
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this week… I was… not… motivated to get up at the crack of dawn.
Especially that I got some kind of barsteward pig flu, and it really, really made it difficult for me. Next week should be better, I hope.
Meh.
I’ve been sleeping on the couch for the last couple of years because I find it more comfortable than the futon mattress that the Dragonlady insists on using.
I’ve been waking up at 5 or so and napping a bit until 6 when the sun really starts lighting up the room, even with the shades turned.
I’m thinking of changing my routine to get up at 6 instead of 7 and just get my whole day started earlier. I’m old now, so this is expected behavior anyway.
Me no likee this again. To be thinking at nine “maybe I should just go to bed” isn’t giving me enough of a break from work. It’s about then that I start getting productive if I want to write or dig into some other project so it’s annoying to see the night wasted. Even if I force myself to stay awake until 11 p.m. or so, I’m still waking up at about five.
I think I’d like to have just one weekend where I get about 13 hours of sleep each night like I did when I was a teenager.
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I slept wrong and pinched a nerve. My right hand and arm have been tingling off and on for a over a week now and my shoulder is wrecked.
Goes nicely with my thumb brace for my sprained thumb.
Oh yeah, that is sooo familiar 
Well, nertz. I think it’s time to admit I’m getting old. It’s getting harder to read things on the smaller monitors even with glasses.
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I had to use a magnifying glass to read the instruction manual for an item that I got. Not only was the print really small, it was grey on white rather than black on white. I used to be able to read those things anyways.
Last year I stopped into a micro-brewery/pub. The print on the menu was so small that I had to try to read it with the Magnify app on my phone. After a couple of minutes I just gave up, turned the menu over and left. The bartender started screaming at me because I didn’t order anything after taking up a spot at the bar for 3 minutes.
Yeah, not going back there again.
I’ll accept my vision being better than it was a decade ago as an acceptable result from being lasered since I didn’t develop any cool superpowers.
On the other hand, I now realize that my vision goes off when I’m stressed.
Oh, my vision is far better than it used to be before lasik. I’m just starting to see some of that fade. I’ll never be as blind as I was, though.
I’ve been borrowing my wife’s $2 readers to read small print all weekend. Thursday I was reading just fine, all of a sudden this weekend my near vision is crap. This is something I was warned about with PRK, My distance vision is still good but since the surgery my close up vision has been fading. I’d still do it, not needing glasses to get out of bed is priceless.
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We’re not alone. Worsening eyesight seems to be related to increased screen time.
This makes a lot of sense now. I have a tablet that is good enough and large enough to watch movies on, but I rarely did. I couldn’t watch streamed TV shows on the Linux computer because Linux isn’t supported by some services. And now I’ve got a Windows 10 computer where I can, but I’d rather sit in the living room and watch something on the TV because it’s father away. I find there’s a point where I absolutely have to get away from the computer to give my eyes a rest.
I think I’m going to try what the article suggests in addition to more breaks: deliberately blink your eyes more and squeeze and hold the final blink for a while.
I got the biggest phone ever made (6.9") which helped a lot.
This is where I tend to use the computer the most. I don’t have to strain to read it as my distance vision is quite good.
High BP. Medicarion time again.
I’m now wondering if this was the forerunner of COVID when it was still in its infancy…
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FWIW, even though I apparently started this thread two years and 300 lifetimes ago, I’m still going to bed by 8-9 and waking up without an alarm clock between 5-6am. I don’t know why. I don’t know how any of this works. All I know is that I’m going to keep doing it because it feels great. I’m just… not tired in the mornings. It’s amazing.
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I wish I could do that. Without external prompts my body likes to go to sleep at about 2 and wake about 9, so most mornings where I have to wake before 9 I end up a zombie until elevenses.