Spooky happenings

Our clock radio in the bedroom started blaring out radio at 6:07 this morning. Since I haven’t used the alarm (or radio) function for probably over 10 years now, I had no memory of where the controls were, so I had to turn the light on to see. Despite switching the radio off several times, it wouldn’t turn off! And then the digital clock readout started switching erratically between the correct time and 0:57. Eventually I had to switch it off at the wall plug to get it to shut up.

I’d intended to sleep for another hour, but this woke me up early and I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I’ve been wandering around in a bit of a tired daze today.

I searched online for a replacement digital clock for the bedroom. I need one with a red display, since that’s the least disruptive at night when trying to sleep. But most of the ones I could find have white or green displays, which are just too bright and bad for night vision, or unlit LCD displays. I did find some with red displays, but they were all giant displays for people with bad eyesight. I don’t need a 40cm display for my bedside clock! And they’re all battery powered, rather than mains powered. I don’t want to deal with batteries.

It seems like a simple red digital bedside clock is something that nobody makes any more. I might have to trawl second-hand stores looking for one. Or maybe tomorrow I’ll try opening the current one and seeing if I can disconnect the radio and maybe with luck the display will keep working.

Other than dealing with that, I had 5 ethics classes online, plus three hours in at the university doing Data Engineering tutoring for the students on their assessment project.

Tomorrow… hopefully I can sleep in…