Say what now?
I’ve slept to a white noise machine my whole adult life. Probably longer. My dad taught me old style – tuning the TV to an off channel. Doubles as a night light!
I was happy with that until that one night I had a terrible vivid dream I was sitting in a rowboat with Margaret Thatcher watching Panama burn. I remember the firelight glittering in her hairspray. Turns out, it was 1989 and the channel was running a broadcast about the US invasion of Panama.
Then I got a fancy audio gadget that sat on the bedside table and made whatever kind of hiss I asked it for. I liked it well enough, but it wasn’t suitable for married weasels.
For years now, I’ve used a tablet, earbuds and Rainy Mood. I’ve gotten good at turning over without losing me ears. It has the added advantage that my alarm plays through the headset in the morning and doesn’t wake Uncle B.
But for months now, the tablet chimed quietly in the wee hours for unknown reasons. A small sound, but often enough to wake me. Sometimes happens twice in a night. Never anything on screen to tell me why. I finally got the idea to turn on notification history so I could find out what program was doing it.
Sonofa bitch. My alarm app has an upcoming alarm notification (see above, now turned off). That’s right – my alarm woke me up to tell me it was going to wake me up in a few hours. Who wants this?
Uh-oh – here comes the cat. Gotta go. Have a good weekend!
August 9, 2024 — 5:45 pm
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