That's great about the silver roof. It really will make a difference. We were only able to get a whitish multicolored roof with the asphalt shingles we had to resort to. Still hoping to redo it with steel at some point both for a lighter color and for better water cachement. Even so, our roof is the lightest in the neighborhood.

We have a dog alarm clock, too, but it only goes off for the SO. The Biscuit knows he can't wake me, so he doesn't try. D. is usually up around 6:30 or so. I'll wake up at about 8:00, but if left to my own devices will sleep until 10:00.

Coffee, breakfast & birdwatching immediately. At my desk or on the road by 10:00 most days including Saturdays. And often still going at 8:30 or 9:00 at night.

Morning:

• 6:30 alarm goes off
• 6:40 get out of bed and feed cats
• 7:00 shower, get ready
• 7:40 leave house
• 8:30 arrive at work

If the wife didn't have to be at work at 8, my morning would look more like this:

• 8:00 alarm off, out of bed
• 8:15 shower, get ready
• 9:00 leave house
• 9:30 arrive at work

No one gets into my office before, say, 10. But I do like the quiet morning time at the office and once the wife is up, I'm unable to continue sleeping so I just go by her schedule.

We have a dog alarm clock, too, but it only goes off for the SO.

I need to get one of those SOs!! Actually, Steve was here last night, and helped immensely. He even took them for a walk while I was on a concall.

and once the wife is up, I'm unable to continue sleeping

So sweet. :)

I can't imagine needing an hour to get to work (twice a day! every day!).

Pfft. I wish I had an hour long commute and a root.

Actually, I wish I had some work right now but the temp market has been dead.

But on Emmett days when I do have work downtown, I leave the house at 7:05, we drive Matilda to daycare, and then turn around and head across the Bay. Emmett gets to school right before 8:00am, then I park near BART and ride the train in usually arriving at Embarcadero (downtown SF) right before 9:00, which allows me to get coffee.

In the evening, on nights Emmett is coming back to SF, I BART back over after work, get the car, pick him up at his mom's house, and drive him back. We usually get back to our house in SF between 6:45 and 7:00. So that's another two hours of commuting on those days.

All I can say is thank goodness I work in the tech industry, and on a team where there are other people who stroll in later than me:

• Alarm goes off at 8:00, I finally stagger out of bed around 8:10 -8:15.
  
• Eat breakfast, reassure the kitties I still love them, do makeup while drinking a pot of tea, get dressed, and am out the door by 9:10 to catch the shuttle to work.
  
• On the shuttle to work, answer work emails, check my personal mail, read LJ.
  
• Barring hellacious traffic, I'm at my desk by about 10:15.

(And by about 10:30, I decide if I need another pot of tea to get me through the day. Which today? I do.)

The cat alarm clock went off early this morning. I had my alarm set for 6:55 so I could do laundry, yet the meowing started at 5:30. What's really annoying is that she'll just sit in the doorway and MRRROOOW! MRRROOOW! MRRROOOW! as long as it takes to get a reaction from me. If she jumped up on the bed, at least I could toss her off and get her physically pissed off enough that she'll stomp off in a huff, but just yelling, "Will you shut up already?!?" isn't enough to get her to shut up.

Alarm and up at 7:00 (after being bugged by cat several times since 5:30am for some inscrutable but evil daily reason), let the dogs out in the backyard, shower, dress (quietly, since the DH is still sleeping). Get to work about 8:00--I only live about 3 miles away. I get to work a liitle later on those days I ride my bike. Easy-peasy.

Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates

Go dolphins!

I am so bad about getting up with the alarm. But it's usually set for about 6:50ish and I get up by 7:15 or so. (Unless it's a 6:30 yoga day.) Give the cat his shot, put together lunch, eat breakfast, shower, walk the dog in some order usually dependent on the dog. Try to leave by 8:40 to get into work by 9.

Often I am slow though.

I have two coworkers who work from home in California. One of them wakes up at 9 and starts working then, so it's a huge burden for her if we have to schedule something in the morning in New York. The other one starts working by 6 local time, because she's already up with her kids, and I swear some days she has already worked out by 6am. Bananas! But it's great for her, because she can stop working when her kids are getting home from school.