I have written about my relationship with my alarm clock many times in this blog. Our relationship has totally changed since I stopped punching the ol’ work clock. In the first few days of retirement, I woke up automatically at 6:30 even though no alarm had been sent. It felt too odd to stay in bed so I got up and roamed around the house looking for something to clean or fold. So I thought the answer was to take that clock and hide it in the sock drawer as a punishment for waking me up too damn early for years. But recently I have changed the game. I have now returned the clock to its place on my nightstand I still find myself rolling over at 6:30 but now I can give this clock a bit of a smirk, and I can roll to the other side and defiantly grab a few more zzzz’s. I win!