Wednesday, November 10, 2004

The snooze button

Alright, so I'm not really an early morning person, unless the sunrise wakes me up. Since I keep my blinds shut at all times this is fairly impossible. Last night I went to bed around 130AM-ish and had to wake up at 6. I didn't really get enough sleep the night before so I was feeling it last night. Well, my alarm clock woke me up at 6, but I thought to myself "dude....this clock is 15 minutes fast, I can totally get some more sleep." and I slapped the snooze button. The next thing I know I'm waking up at 650 and need to be at work at 7 which kind of shocked me, not only because I had to be at work in ten minutes but also because the alarm clock is programed to go off after 9 minutes from hitting the snooze button so that means I've trained myself to hit the snooze button without completely waking up. Needless to say I was a little late but that wasn't a big problem, either they fire me and it gives me the motivation to find a better job, or they act like nothing ever happened and I don't have to deal with job searching. I came up with a couple ways to keep from hitting the snooze button multiple times in my sleep without realizing it.

My first idea was to set up two metal contacts on top of my snooze button, which are connected to a power supply. When I slap the snooze button the two contacts would come in.......contact......and it would send an electrical surge throughout my body, and if that doesn't wake me up the uncontrollable convulsions should shake me right out of bed and the hard landing should take care of it. I like this idea but it could possibly create a fire, and that just makes me think bad thoughts of a giant baked potato.......So I thought of another way, attach a mouse trap to the snooze button. Slap the snooze button and SNAP, mousetrap eating my fingers. Of course I'd adjust the the tension on the spring so that it wouldn't break my fingers in half but I figured that would work.

But now that I think of it, either of those would more than likely make me want to turn my alarm off completely allowing me to oversleep anyway. So, if anybody else has an idea let me know.