beep beep richie

at 3am this morning, i was rudely woken up by a loud beep, similar to a pager that hasn't been looked at type beep. it's loud, obnoxious and won't shut up until you look at it. i didn't think too much of it and started to fall back asleep semi-wondering what was it as it pulled me from a dead sleep.

but just as i was slipping back into that wonderful dark embrace of sleep, BEEP BEEP.

at which point any hope of falling asleep flew right out my open window. i knew it was not a pager i had (not on call until tomorrow), and i knew it wasn't my cellphone, because it isn't anywhere near as obnoxious about missed calls (my KRZR did beep like that, but it's off). it couldn't be a laptop as that was powered off, and the beep was the wrong pitch. the only thing i could think of was maybe the smoke detector in the hallway was the culprit. in my last apartment, i had the battery die on the smoke detector before and it's a similar beep, so i grabbed a flashlight (which i didn't really need) and wandered into the living room. i opened my front door and waited on the couch for it to beep again. after ten minutes of looking back and forth between the smoke detector and the clock on my cable box, i figured it wasn't the culprit.

i did notice one odd thing tho - stinky (neighbor) who ALWAYS has her tv on when at home (day and night), usually at obnoxious volume levels, actually had the volume down on her tv. i could see a slight glow around the door so i saw that it was on, but i thought it was odd that she didn't have the volume up. after a few minutes, i heard the channel change and was pleased that the volume was actually at a reasonable level until it went to commercial where it was then back to the usual obnoxious levels. a few seconds later, the volume dropped so i was left wondering if she falls asleep on the remote and her rolling about then pushes the buttons until she wakes up. there is this morbid curiosity, but at the same time, it's an unpleasant thought to observe her in her natural environment. it's bad enuff that i'll come home and be assaulted with a new smell.

afterwards, crawled back into bed, twittered and then attempted to fall asleep. after a few minutes, i closed my window and turned the fan on my A/C to create some white noise, but that didn't help much so it was probably close to 4am when i finally fell back asleep. so when my alarm went off at 602am, i managed to sleep thru it until just after 7am, which is something i would prefer not to do.

fortunately, there was no traffic on the road so even leaving a little before 8am, i was at work in plenty of time.

so for the 4th night in a row, i've had a crappy nights sleep and i'm getting starting to get cranky.