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[Hurlshort]

Monday we dropped my daughter off at SFSU for her freshman year. It is pretty weird moving a child out of the house after 18+ years. I'm excited and nervous for her. I didn't sleep well the first night. So far so good, she had a job interview Thursday (lifeguard at campus pool.) She is taking the train home for the weekend, so we will still be seeing her often enough.  

[Gfted1]

On 8/22/2025 at 11:47 AM, Malcador said:

Deciding to try using RATM songs as an alarm as I cannot wake up early due to staying up late (a friend called me a creature of darkness, although I suspect she meant something else..).  So far, not much success, suitably from "Wake Up". 

Maybe I should use a repgunant song that will make me get up and turn it off, like something from Sabaton.

Heh, I use that "submarine crash dive" alarm and its quite effective. 99% of the time I spontaneously wake up just before the alarm.

[LadyCrimson]

According to the rumor mill, Trump is deadly ill with maybe congestive heart failure and may only have 6-12 months to live!

......I can only dream.
......he doesn't seem particularly healthy recently but he might still make his term. His age, his past/present lifestyle, who bloody knows.

[Sarex]

1 hour ago, Gfted1 said:

Heh, I use that "submarine crash dive" alarm and its quite effective. 99% of the time I spontaneously wake up just before the alarm.

The issue then comes when you start spontaneously waking up without setting the alarm.

[LadyCrimson]

Do you guys use your phone as the alarm clock these days?

I still find the quartz clock super loud beeping that gets faster and faster or the 'big ben" firebell alarm to be best for waking you up. Y'know, the sort that can be heard down the hallway into the living room. Music/the radio has never worked for me. Digital sounds through speakers also not great, for me.

Of course, actually getting up and not flopping back onto your pillow is another matter.  My husband annoyed me with one hour of blasting radio music or beepbeepbeep snooze-alarming, every single morning, for many many years. That on top of his 80-100decibel snoring (made my ears ring sometimes) eventually chased me out of sleeping in the same bed. I've slept so much deeper/better since.  Pffft.

Edited 2 hours ago by LadyCrimson

[Gfted1]

Like 3-4 weeks ago, I discovered that my iPhone has whats called "standby mode". When its connected to a wireless charger, and rotated 90 degrees, then the screen changes to a clock and a widget. So I moved my normal alarm clock down to the living room just for a time display.

My wife will hit the snooze button like crazy and I ask her why she doesnt just set the alarm for later rather than snoozing every 9 minutes but she just shrugs.

[LadyCrimson]

Most of the time when i wake up/am woken up, I am immediately too awake to go back to sleep. Although as I get older, it's become a little less "immediately jump out of bed, brain full-on" and more "sit up blinking for a minute then pull myself out of bed while trying not to trip/fall down."

When I first met hubby, he'd wake up quick and only hit the snooze button a couple times. By the time he was early 30's, the alarm often didn't wake him up until it had been going off for 10+ minutes, until I'd hit him to turn it off, and then the snooze button cycle.

Since I almost never use my "smartphone" I still barely know how to do anything with it outside of take a picture.