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Added 2024-12-19 18:11:25 +0000 UTCI forgor to charge it
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One last thing. (As if… LOL) I use the Marathon clock and my Screaming Meanie and NOT my phone because I DON’T trust my phone enough. My two regular clocks are not “smart,” and each is battery powered. You know that tagline, “when it absolutely positively HAS to be there overnight…?” I use these because when I absolutely positively have to be awake (if still living, of course—if I’m dead, I don’t feel as if I would especially care at that point about being on time for whatever,) my iPhone might have a brain fart and not wake me. Or it might decide to UPDATE when I’m needing it to wake me. Or it might get “hacked,” or I might THINK that I plugged it in, and sure, maybe it’s charging… or maybe it’s NOT. What if I set it, plug it in to charge, and then the power goes out, and stays out all night, or long enough for my phone’s battery to die? What if a power surge knocks the charger out? Setting two alarm clocks and putting one across the room while I recite a mantra I started using circa the year 2001: “when this alarm goes off,” I’d remind myself, “I HAVE TO GET UP.” It works, and hasn’t failed me yet, when I haven’t forgotten to set them, that is, which I have done from time to time. :-/ That is all.
Nadia Novak
2024-12-20 22:46:52 +0000 UTCThe trucker alarm is but one of many that I’m sure would be more than capable of helping avoid missing an appointment, etc., due to oversleeping, but specifically the clock in question is the Screaming Meanie TZ-220, which has three sound levels for the high pitched squealing alarm: soft, loud, and ear-splittingly, brain rattlingly LOUD! The packaging I remember when I bought it, about 20 or so years ago, during my brief foray into driving a truck professionally, warned that the product should NOT be used near cemeteries, as it might wake the dead. That’s a joke, of course, but yes, it IS that loud. And yes, I’ve used it from time to time whenever I knew I had to be awake, come hell or high water, as they used to say, in less time than I knew I was likely to sleep. I’d set the time to a good 15 minutes AFTER I set the regular, non-cardiac arrest-inducing alarm of my regular clock, and put it on MEDIUM, and by the bedroom DOOR. Thus, I wouldn’t accidentally forget if I woke early and needed to go to the bathroom or something… I wouldn’t want to forget and be in the shower when this thing starts SCREAMING. bee ee wee ee wee ee wee (etc) because I don’t want my neighbors to murder me or complain that I woke them up. Trust…. The neighbors WOULD, I’m pretty sure, hear this, even on medium loud, at whenever in the morning I need to wake up. Also, turning the alarm off is NON-trivial, takes both hands and a modicum of concentration. Hence, it’s way better at making sure you wake up, (assuming you don’t have a heart attack when it blows you right out of sleepytime-land, where you were perhaps having some nice dream or another. This thing… oh, and it’s 9V battery powered and the screen lights with the press of a button which also shows the battery condition, so it’s way less likely to die on you during the night or whatever. I check that every single time I use it, because an alarm clock whose battery is quietly dying will be as good as no alarm clock at all. My other clock is a Marathon clock and is very nice. But I keep that on my nightstand and so I could (and HAVE) either forgotten to turn it ON, or woke, (with or without the alarm,) shut off the alarm, and gone right back to sleep, which is not good… I know this is starting to sound like an ad… it’s not. This is just meant for anyone who needs to be definitely woke up from sleep at a certain time, (or after a certain period, because it has a countdown timer function too,) NO MATTER WHAT. This will, (properly set, of course, and setting it takes practice to do quickly because while it’s not HARD, or confusing per se, it may be hard and confusing at first, and that may, in turn, by design, but I digress,) definitely wake you up unless you’re profoundly deaf, or dead. The idea is that a professional truck driver (who is no fool, mind you—we owe a LOT to the people who make it possible for us to go to a “store” and buy, well, very nearly everything that exists for sale there,) is constrained as to when they can sleep. Next time you’re out driving, be kind to them… even if their big, lumbering, slow trucks might seem to impede your travel, said travel is generally made possible by things a trucker brought somewhere at some point. Most likely, a BUNCH of such stuff, for good or for ill. Sorry as always for rambling. I’m still in pain from surgery and dilation, etc.
Nadia Novak
2024-12-20 22:34:43 +0000 UTCLol i do this all the time
bubbles_hXc
2024-12-19 20:30:51 +0000 UTCI have a regular alarm clock and a trucker’s alarm clock… when something is critical, when it’s critical that I don’t oversleep, yeah, I use both.
Nadia Novak
2024-12-19 20:08:12 +0000 UTCI feel called out, even though this has only happened thrice to me ever, I still feel called out.
NeoTorchwick
2024-12-19 19:12:14 +0000 UTCI feel so called out by this today! It was the 3rd time it's happened!
Nikki Noetzol
2024-12-19 18:43:25 +0000 UTCBlahaj!! 🦈🦈🦈
Ari Morse
2024-12-19 18:17:16 +0000 UTCMy greatest of fears owo
Dahlia Grayson
2024-12-19 18:12:47 +0000 UTC
