I long time ago I came up with a concept called "NPREM". That's the odd combination of NPR and REM-sleep that happens when my alarm goes off in the morning, and I begin to dream about the news. NPREM is a bad place to be. I get neither a decent NPR morning newscast -- as my dreaming brain is twisting the stories around, nor do I actually get up on time.
Two things came into my life and changed all that. First is the Chumby, about which I have written much already. When I got the Chumby, I gave my nice alarm clock radio to my wife. The second "thing" is my wife (should I have started with her?), and especially her unnatural love of country music. My father once explained that he listened to country music while jogging because "it was good music to try to run away from." It certainly is. Every weekday I now hear my awesome Boston Acoustics Receptor Radio erasing the morning's peaceful silence with the latest "fresh country hits" from "95.7 The Wolf" with "Ken and Corey" and the "Y'all-Turnative Morning" show (no -- really, search for it); and the OFF button is on the wrong side of the bed.
The Wolf most definitely gets me up and out of bed in the morning -- there is no incorporating the "y'all-turnative" music into my dreams. I think I'm glad about all of this.
Two things came into my life and changed all that. First is the Chumby, about which I have written much already. When I got the Chumby, I gave my nice alarm clock radio to my wife. The second "thing" is my wife (should I have started with her?), and especially her unnatural love of country music. My father once explained that he listened to country music while jogging because "it was good music to try to run away from." It certainly is. Every weekday I now hear my awesome Boston Acoustics Receptor Radio erasing the morning's peaceful silence with the latest "fresh country hits" from "95.7 The Wolf" with "Ken and Corey" and the "Y'all-Turnative Morning" show (no -- really, search for it); and the OFF button is on the wrong side of the bed.
The Wolf most definitely gets me up and out of bed in the morning -- there is no incorporating the "y'all-turnative" music into my dreams. I think I'm glad about all of this.
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