With all these complaints about the time change, I am somebody who actually likes getting up early. And with brighter mornings not that far away, especially coming in May, I am seriously considering getting up closer to 5 AM and getting out and walking and getting extra steps in before work. While I walk at 6:15 AM most of the year to kick off my mornings, when it’s getting bright out at 5 AM it sure seems to be a waste to be asleep. I could be spending my mornings down in the park, walking and enjoying more nature.

I guess that would have to be tempered against the fact that the nights soon will be getting much brighter later in the night. Come June I can easily spend my evenings down at the park until 9 PM and then by the time it’s really dark and I walk home it’s 9:30 PM. That doesn’t leave a lot of time to sleep, as I like to do nine hours of sleep a day, especially as some of that sleep isn’t perfect and Iike being well rested before work as I don’t preform well on a bad nights sleep. I used to stay up later, but I don’t see much benefit of wasting electricity on artificial light when I could be getting needed sleep, while enjoying the brighter parts of the day outdoors.