Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for November 04, 2024

And the dog makes it triple redundant…………

And you didn’t have to change the time on your phone today like you would on that old clock.

On the clock

I keep the clock radio as a backup if I have to get up at 4 to catch a plane. Besides, if I want to know what time it is in the middle of the night, I don’t need glasses to read it.

I wake up before my alarm but I do have one set. My phone is does not spend the night in my bedroom.

I still use the old clock radio. As someone “over 50” who’s always embraced technology (my hobby car with the manual transmission notwithstanding) for some reason I never got rid of the thing. I guess it serves its purposes: It wakes me up; it lets me see the time in the middle of the night w/o having to reach for my phone; and it serves as a navigational beacon when nature calls so that my toes don’t run into any furniture.

Honestly, I have to keep my alarm clocks out of reach when I’m sleeping. I’ve done that since my 20’s. The “snooze” button is always too tempting. By forcing myself out of bed to shut it off, I figure “I’m up now” and I get my day started.

But the alarm clock is always right there by the bed!! The other ways aren’t always….

Just sleep in….no one’ll notice….

Still have my 1970s GE clock radio with the red LCD display.

It’s useful to see the time, when you wake up 3-5 times a night. I don’t need any help getting up in the morning, I just don’t want to do it at 3:20 am.

I still use an old one like that. It’s probably 30 years old.

I have one in each room but I have yet to use the alarm or the radio

I retired and tossed my alarm clock, now I get up two hours earlier.

Except on school days. The 8 year old twins need a bit of OOMPH to get up and going.

My phone is turned off on a charger in another room when I’m sleeping.

8 years old…since 1999!