On 10/31/19 12:20 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:26:04 -0700 (PDT), Cindy
Hamilton wrote:

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 9:42:29 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:40:49 -0700 (PDT), Cindy
Hamilton wrote:

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 10:21:11 AM UTC-4, Mike_Duffy wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 03:43:54 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 9:03:36 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:

[...]. All of these start softly and get louder over a minute or so.

I have one of those. It's a Sony, a 3" cube, and it automatically
synchonizes to correct time, apparently by signals put into the FM nowadays
just for that purpose. Plus it changes to daylight or standard time by
itself.

[...] waking up in a panic
[...] switched to my cell phone on its lowest volume.

The slowly increasing sound volume is very gentle; usually causing me to
know that I am dreaming, but now is the time to wake up.

Nowadays I'm hardly ever still asleep when the alarm goes off anyway.
The thing I miss most about being young was how well I used to sleep.

Me too, the last few years. Too fat now to sleep on my stomach, I can
sleep on my back, almost sitting up, but no matter how long I do that, I
feel like I haven't slept, and I have to sleep on my side for a while.

I was always a side sleeper, but now my it hurts if I try to sleep on
my side all night. I mix it up between on my back, almost sitting up,
and on my side for as long as I can stand it.

Cindy Hamilton

Yes, it hurts to sleep on my side now too, but it's not my back that
hurts. Instead when I sleep on the right, my right side at my waist, a
few inches in and up and down hurts a lot. An aread about half a
baseball size. For months it used to be only for 5 minutes after I got
out of bed but lately it doesn't completely go away.

I know I should try sleeping on the other side, but I can't see the
clock or the radio and I'm also afraid I'll fall out of bed.



Mount some guard rails on the side of your bed.