I woke up this morning to the sound of a ringing alarm clock. Blargh, Mondays. So I reach over to hit the off button, but it wasn't there. In the dark every side of a square alarm clock looks the same. I could feel an outline where I thought the button was supposed to be, but it was stuck, and didn't even budge. I fumbled and pushed on it for a few minutes, trying desperately to figure out why it wouldn't stop ringing that horrible, high-pitched ring. At last I gave up and instead popped open the back hatch and pulled out the batteries. I turned on the light to find the source of my un-stoppable alarm clock problems: it was upside down, and the "button" I was pressing was actually just the ridges on the bottom to hold it in place, and the giant red button was in fact on the other side of the cube. Doh!

What a great way to start a day. This is why you should never trust an alarm clock, they're vile, tricky creatures who feed on our annoyance and frustration. They truly are an abomination created by the Makuta, or maybe the Sith, or perhaps both groups together, for the sole purpose of driving us insane so as to make it easier for them to conquer us, and then the whole world.

You have been warned.