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I LOATHE waking up to a beeping, it sets my nerves on edge and i can't work out how to set my radio alarm.
Does anyone know of a CD player that you can set to play your choice of song when you wake up? I remember seeing one of these and as a kid and just thinking it was awesome.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG!

I just [i]last night[/i] figured out the timer on my (crappy) 3-in-1 boombox dealie (CD/tape/LP)! I woke up today to "Another One Bites The Dust"!

They have specific CD-player/alarm clocks all over the place now. I think they usually run something like $50-100 American. That's just a guesstimate though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha, D'OH, wtf was I thinking with that BBS brackets shit?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I set my phone to play mp3s. When I was about 13 or 14 i cued up my record player the night before and put the whole hi fi on one of those timer plug-socket things so it would come on in the morning. It would start with a speeding-up lurch noise.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure I used to be able to set the alarm to play a CD on my crappy old midi system. Now I have an even crappier ancient radio alarm that wakes me up with Radio 4 unless something else has fallen off it in the night/it has a fight with the other electrics in which case I'm lucky to get a burst of hissy TalkSport or Classic FM.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Now an annoying Nokia phone that immediately puts me into a god-awful mood. A few years ago I had a pioneer stereo that used to come on and the volume would increase slightly to the setting I left it on the night before. Much better.

― lucifer, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah it's been the nokia phone for a couple month now - it's seriously been affecting my mood for the rest of each day. my bed is too far from the computer to set anything clever up just now. and the room's too messy.

god i hate waking up to the chaos.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Just my phone. For an instant, I think that someone is calling/messaging me and get all happy, then I realise it's just the alarm clock.

Then again, I've set my alarm so late lately that I end up waking up before it goes off anyway.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the fucking nokia alarm is a sin against humanity. makes me want to fuck the phone against the wall every morning.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha i do the nokia phone alarm too!

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i use my radio as my alarm. It's on Radio 1, so that it's so annoying I have to get up to turn it off.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a strange bird (of the feathered variety) that seems to live up my chimney and often wakens me of a morning - it sounds a bit like a cuckoo but I doubt it is one

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fuck the phone against the wall"?!!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I wake up to my mobile, which plays a dodgy MIDI version of Radiohead's "There, There". It used to be quite fun, but I guess having an alarm made out of any song/good noise will eventually ruin it.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

alarm clock tuned to classical radio. and usually with a boner.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck-verb-to throw in anger, as with alarming nokia phone

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

annoying beeping alarm that i hit again and again every nine minutes. which my gf loathes. good thing she is usually up by then.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I tag team my narcolepsy w/ a clock radio (set to hip-hop / R&B / reggae-on-Freaky Fridays station) (snooze city baby!) & my trusting Aiwa entertainment system CD player (set on blast for 3+ hours - currently in the CD tray: Swell Maps, Blood Brothers, & Converge) (I just let it play until I wake up). And I STILL manage to oversleep. I usually come to when the high-pitched guy from BB starts yelping, tho.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i just worked out the cd timer thing on my g-friends new hifi and today we slowly woke up to the wrens. I've noticed an instant change in morning mood in us both.
....there is however the danger that you just lie there listening blissfully to the cd for too long, so we use her old Alcatel mobile alarm as back up ....or i'll slip in the dead kennedys the night before.

― marac (maracas), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

As much as everyone hates it, the Nokia seem so be the people’s choice.

― lucifer, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone tried one of those vibrating pillows? they seem cool..poss irritating though.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

alarm clock tuned to classical radio. and usually with a boner.

that's a pretty unusual tuning system your alarm clock has velveteen!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

What's up with the nine minutes snooze? It seems to be standard.

I wake up to Radio 4 (previously: XFM, Classic FM, Five Live) at 8.10am. Sarah was sleeping on the radio side until recently, but the effort of extending an arm and pushing a button is too much for her when she first wakes up :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

alarm clock tuned to classical radio. and usually with a boner.

same for me, but it seems the classical station is always reading news when i wake up.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The Nokia's snooze is only 6 minutes and that just isn't enough. Ever.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I wake up either a) at 5am b) when the cat starts biting my toes or purring in my ear (usually also at 5am) c) two minutes before my alarm goes off (6.24am).

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

typically i wake up before the alarm even goes off anyways. 4am! i hate work

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOATHE waking up to a beeping, it sets my nerves on edge

So do I, which is why it is a must as a morning alarm. If I have the clock/radio set to music, I will just lie in bed a little while longer and enjoy the music (and sometimes even fall back asleep again). So it must be something very annoying and abrasive.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm lucky in that I don't need an alarm, I tend to wake up just fine as I don't need to be up until 8:45am anyway.

If for some reason I need to be up really early I will set the alarm but I don't know what it sounds like yet, so far I've always awoke just before it goes off.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah was sleeping on the radio side until recently, but the effort of extending an arm and pushing a button is too much for her when she first wakes up :)

This is not so much the case, rather that my body somehow adapts to let me hit the snooze (or turn the alarm off) while remaining asleep. This is a problem.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been wearing earplugs at night, which makes the sound of the alarm a lot more tolerable (not that I am wearing them for that reason). Sometimes it takes me a while to realize it's going off. I still loathe waking up according to a clock.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The preferred method of waking up is with a bit of the old in-out.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

- Two irritating "bibibibiiiip" style alarm clocks (one Bart Simpson, the other Scooby Doo) set 5 minutes apart and placed strategically around my room so I physically have to get out of bed to switch them off.
- My stereo alarm which, although you can pick the format (MD/CD/Radio), it always plays at the volume it was on last. Kinda sucky because I often go to sleep with the stereo on next-to-silent.
- My mobile phone which has a handy snooze option that lets you sleep in for five mins before waking you again.

And I'm still invariably late for work.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think snoozes are 9 minutes long because of the intrinsic power of the base-10 counting system. 60 / 10 = 6 snoozes per hour, easy for sleeping brain to grasp & use to your disadvantage bwah hah hah. 60 / 9 = wonky non-integer number, brain cannot grasp comfortably, more disruptive.

This could be hooey, though.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it when the snooze button is named something like "Dream Bar."

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got two techniques depending on the time of day I have to get up at.
If I'm up early I've got the most annoying beepy alarm clock placed where I physically have to get out of bed to turn it off.
If I can get up a bit later I get wakened by 6 music (which, as it's Phill Jupitus, always gets me up within ten minutes.)
I fall asleep to my iPod, plugged in via the headphone socket to aux, at a low volume with the stereo set to a high volume to wake me with the radio.
I don't if it's the time difference or that waking to music is less stressful than the beeping (I suspect the latter, really) but I'm in a better mood waking to music of a morning.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad I'm not the only one with the beeping cause I was thinking I was like a JAne Austen style lady, The beeping! oh my nerves! If I get the flu I'll die

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The radio alarms never works for me at all, I just keep dreaming with a soundtrack. Beeping/Buzzing alarms always cause me to wake up in a dread panic, and I'm furious with the world & everyone in it for the next hour or so. My girlfriend got me a "moonbeam" alarm clock which flashes a light couple years ago. The light almost always wakes me up, even when I sleep late and there's ambient light coming into the bedroom. If I'm really dead out, the beeping comes on after a few minutes of light flashing. Works for me.

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Mornings are awful enough as it is - I really don't need to make it any more unpleasant with what is basically the most unpleasant noise possible jarring me awake.

Ideally I would wake up everyday to the godzilla alarm clock from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Instead I have to settle for the local "zany" morning show dipshits.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

That makes sense to me, as when I'm half asleep I find myself chopping the morning into 45 minute chunks to make the snoozes all fit neatly.

(Irritating Nokia for me too btw)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Then again, if you're me, you had to set your clock 27 minutes fast because you always knew that you would hit the snooze button three times before waking.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

nokia nokia nokia nokia nokia nokia nokia ok I get it snooze nokia nokia nokia nokia nokia nokia!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

NPR on the radio, but usually the cats have already awakened me.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a daylight simulating alarm clock/lamp that comes on gradually between 6 and 6.30. Sometimes the light wakes me up at about 25 past and I lie there with my eyes shut and pretend I'm sunbathing. If I'm not awake by 6.30, I'll no longer be in deep sleep territory so the beeping isn't hard to take. Then I open my eyes and see it's still pitch black outside the window and I feel a little disappointed.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Animals waking you=classic
Technology waking you=dud

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Normally I wake up right around when I need to in the morning -- the absolute latest is 5:40 am -- but when it comes to assistance, this wonderful analog electric clock I've had since I was eight does the trick. It's for a simple reason -- the alarm is the most braying godawful noise imaginable, just this snarling roar. Combined with setting it away from the bed, it means I have to actually get up to turn the damn thing off -- and thus it serves its purpose.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

irritating nokia! I automatically reach for the cancel button rather than just putting it to snooze, no matter how non-awake I am, so I have to set it to go off at crazy irregular intervals from 7:15 to like 8:30 if I'm going to get up at all that morning. I also have to leave the phone locked after the time I woke up to find that I'd just called someone and was having an incomprehensible conversation with them.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

most of the time i just wake up at the 'right' time. unfortunately this happens at weekends too.

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Animals waking you=classic

Not when they do it every bloody morning at 5am, it isn't.

(when I get home, I'll write up the story of the camping trip to Wales where I was woken, terrified, at 3AM, by a sheep.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to say, I'm pretty good at being able to wake up at more or less the 'proper' time for any given day. As I said earlier, I'm nearly always awake *before* my alarm clock goes off, and I often wake up just a couple of minutes before; but at weekends I don't, and I'm rarely awake until 9am. I was even better at this when I was a teenager - I could go to bed saying to myself "I will wake up at [any time from 5am to 8am]" and I *would* wake up at exactly that time, to the minute. I have absolutely no idea how I got this skill, or how it worked.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah -- i have that 'just before the alarm' thing. how does that work?

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I can do that Caitlin, if it's important, and you're right about the every morning at 5am shit too.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Same here. Most mornings I lay in bed for awhile after I become conscious and then decide to get up -- very frequently the clock shows 7:00 exactly, one minute before my alarm is set for.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I open my eyes and wake up. Alarm clocks make me sleepier because I wake up prematurely and just keep hitting snooze for forty-five minutes. When I wake up on my own, I somehow awake at just the right time.

Being on the east side of the house also helps.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost Surely it's just a matter of habit and all, I figure. I've had to adjust my times for waking up over the last couple of years as work schedules change and I find that after an initial period of using the alarm to wake your body gets used to it. I'm enough of a morning person that I don't mind!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I wake up veeeery reluctantly to the sound of lite jazz and talk radio. I'm usually underrested.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind beeping alarms, but I have to put them across the room so I actually have to get up and turn them off, or I'll just keep hitting snooze until it turns off by itself. Once I'm up, I'm up, but if I don't have to get out of bed, forget it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the college alarm clock app opening a strategically arranged alarm.m3u with nokia alarm 15mins later as a backup. never need it though; the first track in the playlist, the fantômas melvins big band - good morning slaves, never fails. i jump out of bed and go straight to the bathroom to brush my teeth and what not and by this time i'm fully awake.

― ave satani (lemike), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to wake up with my cd player turning on. but because it is a carousel it has a really loud clunky, distinctive sound when it switches on. now every time I turn on my cd player to listen to music I associate it with that awful waking up feeling. you come to resent the sound that wakes you up.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

morning calls is the best way of waking up (of course this will require someone actually being awake to call you)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and person calling you isn't a boring one who would send you back to bed

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I use a horrible beepy alarm. I use the adrenaline rush from the terrifying, shrill noise to get to the bathroom. Then it's all bright and reflective and there's no back-to-bed for me.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I use the alarm on my cell phone. It's a soft warble.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

on the weekends i wake up by dry humping my wife.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

morning calls is the best way of waking up

I hate to say it, but telemarketers have saved my ass more than once.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

During my stint as an operator when I was working nightshift, we had to book and make the morning calls.

It was helluva boring, calling numbers and saying, dead chirpy like, "Good morning! This is your alarm call!"

Some people were still deep in slumberland when they answered and would babble incoherently, some of the snatches of dream speak were great.

Had to wake Neil Morrisey up once, he lifted the phone and put it down straight away so we phoned again, he lifted the phone, hung up. Done this a few times until the grumpy shit shouts "WHAT?" down the line.

"Good morning! This is your alarm call!"

― Rumpington Lane, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I already post somewhere else on here about my ex-gf's "aromatherapy alarm clock"?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

shoulda been "YOGA?!"
xpost

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

CHA-CHING

My ex, the sweetie, used to have a fucking AROMATHERAPY alarm clock. Apparently it was supposed to wake you up with AROMA. PLEASANT AROMA.
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), October 19th, 2004 1:52 PM. (nickalicious)

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The aromatherapy alarm clock also had an "alarm". The sound was something like a recording of windchimes in F# that faded in very very slowly. Apparently these were very popular with her and her masseuse colleagues. Fucking masseuses.
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), October 19th, 2004 2:01 PM. (nickalicious)

― known vaginatarian (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

AROMATHERAPY alarm clock.

When this is a coffe pot brewing, I approve.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i use my TV and mobile as alarms. so the first people i see in the morning are Dermot Monaghan and Natasha Kerplunksi. or fucking Raymond. They only work as a team tho - either on it's own is ineffective I have found.

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I just sorta wake up, no alarm clocks or anything like that. I always know it's around 8.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Rufus wakes us up, usually between 6:30 and 7. These days he's usually singing "The wheels on the bus go round and round..." I used to hate it when people were cheerful around me in the morning until I had had a couple of cups of joe, but it's hard to get grumpy towards our jovial kid. Scott gets him out of the crib and gets him changed and fed. I roll over and fall back asleep for a little while. On good days, Scott brings me a cup of coffee in bed once it's ready.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

On bad days, Rufus brings you the coffee and you begin to wonder what he's up to.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"I just sorta wake up, no alarm clocks or anything like that. I always know it's around 8."

Exactly how it works out for me. I would initially use an alarm when I first started on my current schedule but I would spend the whole night anticipating the alarm going off, constantly waking up and checking the time. Eventually, it came to where I would wake up right before the alarm went off. Now I just get up. Fortunately on weekends, my sleeping mind somehow works this out and prevents me from waking until I'm good and ready.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

On bad days, I hear Rufus in the other room whining repeatedly "Mama is all done sleeping? Is Mama all done? Mama's going to come out? Mama's going to read a story?"

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Then again, if you're me, you had to set your clock 27 minutes fast because you always knew that you would hit the snooze button three times before waking up.

I DO THAT TOO! Except I go for 28 or 34 minutes. Not 30, though - if it's a nice clean number, I can do the math between displayed time & actual time w/out effort & then figure out how much more sleep I can get away with and then oversleep by 2 hours. Crooked number = brain has to WORK to do the subtraction, am forced to wake up ever-so-briefly to perform calculations, and I am 20+ minutes away from getting out of bed. (Give or take a few hours.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole setting your clock ahead scheme can spiral out of control pretty fast.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

HUGE CRUSHING RADIO STATIC OMG OMG I LOVE IT, it's like waking up in a MONSTER TRUCK - I position the dial at the most CRUSHINGLY STATICKY STATION-SCHIZOPHRENIC point and set the alarm at max vol that way. KRRRRRSSHHHHHHHHHHssssssss"your auto glass spechhhKRRSHHHHHHHHHHRRHHSHSHHHHH"he was a sk8r boi! she said seeya later boi! he wassskkrrRRRSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHdamn son why all pussy always be smellin like BBQ sauceeekkKRRSSSSHHHHHHH

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

A catapult would work nicely on some mornings as well. I would need ahigher ceiling, though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Or a skylight.
That would make life so much easier! Hang your cloths for the next day in the center with your bed/catapult set-up underneath so it shoots you into your cloths, out the window; landing perfectly on your chair at the office.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is the logical extension of the worst time to be surprised
by a golden shower thread.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole setting your clock ahead scheme can spiral out of control pretty fast.

At one point, I think I was up to 2 hours and 27 minutes ahead, just by way of my own predilections and random slapping of HOUR and MINUTE buttons while trying to SNOOZE. Once in a while, I forgot. Fun was had.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I wake up to big boy's morning show on power 106

classic: waking up to "I Love LA" by Randy Newman on Fridays

dud: being too punch drunk asleep to stay awake for Snoop, Nate Dogg and Warren G performing "Regulate" a couple months ago.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

My alarm clock is two minutes slow at the moment.

If I have a power cut, the alarm clock resets itself to midnight when the power comes back on. If I forget to set it again, I'm left trying to do complex mental arithmetic when I wake up to work out what the actual time is.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC: waking up to the local alt.rock station playing some Metallica track from Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets I never heard before, and slowly realizing, "holy shit this is REALLY GOOD!"

DUD: waking up to the first 30 seconds of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" around 7 AM for 3-4 months straight (courtesy of dopey roommate) while employed as the nighttime shift manager at the UConn Taco Bell.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on hols from uni so I get up when my body thinks it's time however during the academic year, if a lecture starts before 9am, I generally just don't go. Pretty slack eh?

― kate/papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I have "iTunesEcho" but does anyone know a good itunes alarm that can load a particular playlist or something or like fade in the sound?

― he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

iRooster does that, I use it but it's a bit lacking in functions. But it does mean you won't throw things at it or smash it to pieces when you're waking up.

― Kevan (Kevan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

this morning - very slowly, about 20 minutes ago. i had earplugs in and had taken sleeping pills last night and slept for ages. it was great.

on mornings when i have to lecture, it's less good - either my girlfriend's alarm, which just beeps, or by radio 4 if i'm at mine. the only trouble with radio 4 is that sometimes someone really annoying is on when i wake up (eg a while back it was m4rcus du saut0y) which can lead to me being angry first thing.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 10 February 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

If I lay in bed listening to Radio 4 in the morning, I find that I tend to fall back to sleep with the radio on, and have frightening dreams about politicians.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 10 February 2005 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

good morning!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't.

It is by sheer dint of good fortune that I have made any appearance of timeliness in arriving to work for the past two weeks. I don't really remember the last time I consciously heard and recognized the sound of my alarm clock. Thank god I'm not required to be at work until 10 most mornings.

I have tried using my giant boombox's timer to play CD tracks to get me up, and that does wake me, but if it's too early and I feel like giving myself thirty minutes or so (which I always do) I'll get up, stumble across the floor, turn it off, and crawl back in bed - the lack of a snooze button makes it kind of useless really.

I need something that plays CDs, is really loud, is durable and has an adjustable-time snooze function (so I can take the 9 minute default snooze timer and tune it down to about 3 or 4 minutes). The world has not seen fit, so far, to manufacture such a thing.

On the 22nd of this month I have to start coming in at 6:45/7 am because we're solidifying the shift schedule and I have to be available to perform my duties as daytime watch coordinator. That should be "really fun."

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

there are roosters, in my neighborhood, now.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

my cd player will play a cd to wake me up if I so desire.

My alarm clock is set to the sound of birds chirping, albeit in a mildly annoying, scratchy way. It doesn't really work all that well, but at least it doesn't make me want to die.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a cd/radio alarm clock that you can program to start on a given song. i always wake up to the radio though.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

gem, is it loud as fuck? Does it do shuffle, like a random song every morning?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 11 February 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

I don't know what this shit is, but the Q&A is killing me.

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