Crackle Crackle Shhhhhhh

This is probably a repeat of a story I've already blogged about but hey, who remembers with that much detail anyway!? (If you do I'm sorry!)

I've had an alarm clock radio since I was in high school.  Maybe before, but for sure high school, so this thing is probably 40 years old.  (It shows up as "vintage" if you try to find it on like Etsy or something, plus the shape is... triangular-ish! OoOOOooooOoh!)

You can have the alarm set to play you a tape (I stopped doing this a while ago for fear of it eating said tapes, but yes I do still have a shoebox of tapes somewhere) a buzz or the radio.  Other than when I used to have it play a tape I have had it on radio for.... decades.  Often, when I have some extended time off from work, when I go to turn the alarm back on it has like... lost the signal or something?  Like I'll usually but the alarm function back on on the Sunday before I have to go back to work as like a mini test and I'll be woken up by nothing... a low hum maybe which generally has me sitting up and thinking "well that's not ideal" as there's no guarantee that non noise would be enough to wake me up on a work day.  So then I fiddle around with the dial a bit until the radio station comes back in and sometimes, if I"m feeling really untrusting of it, I will turn on the back up alarm I have.  

Some mornings the radio alarm will be fine but then when I sit up to turn it off it'll crackle, like my body is interfering with the signal, it's cool!  EVERY random once in a while the system will have a little goof up and the radio will have a tiny bit of buzz to it and that's shockingly loud or the radio will come on at FULL VOLUME but the biggest thing I have to watch out for with this alarm clock is the fact that when it goes on vacation it seems to need an adjustment to get back into the correct flow of things.  Maybe it's more like us than we think!