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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 August 25 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.

[Sarex]

The need to wake up by myself coincided with me having a phone so I never used a wrist watch to wake up.

[Malcador]

I use my phone for an alarm, doesn't work, so really should just turn it off when I go to bed at this point. 

[majestic]

Been using my phone as an alarm ever since ye olden days of the Nokia 3210. Which is basically my entire adult life, come to think of it. Huh.

[melkathi]

Using my phone since around 2014.

Before that I had a small alarm clock freeware on the PC. That was a time I'd wake up to Sugabases - Too Lost In You; which ironically I do not listen to under other circumstances, only as an alarm

The old alarm clocks were always so annoyingly loud.

[majestic]

Sugababes? I'd sledgehammer the PC, and that is coming from me who unironically enjoys Eurodance trash.  

[rjshae]

I'm retired so I normally don't need an alarm, except on rare occasions. But I wouldn't trust that I remembered to recharge the phone properly, so I'll stick with the radio alarm clock.

[BruceVC]

@melkathi

Melkie  my  stepmom is leaving tomorrow for a 30 day overseas holiday, 7 days in London and 3 weeks in Greece at Paxos and Corfu  

 

Have you been to these islands, anything you can recommend outside of the normal advertised tourist things? 

[LadyCrimson]

On 8/26/2025 at 1:49 AM, melkathi said:

The old alarm clocks were always so annoyingly loud.

That's the point. It woke you up by annoying you. And if you put them on the other side of the room, it also got you physically out of the bed. Maybe to just smash it with a hammer, but still, now you were standing up. And on the old non-electric ones, no snooze alarm. Gradual non-stressful waking is for the weak!  

Granted some family/home situations could make it a bother/too disruptive.
And not like I personally have needed to wake at a constant schedule most of the time for years, so who am I to chatter.  Heh.

 

[melkathi]

I once forgot to turn my old wind up alarm off properly when I was living in halls of residence. After lectures I met with friends and didn't come home till late. But as those alarms didn't differentiate between AM and PM, in the evening it started ringing and didn't stop.

My flatmates called campus security to unlock my room and check on  me. They were worried I was lying dead in a corner, since I didn't hear the alarm