3AM is much too early to wake up...

[bazookaman]

...to what sounded like a tree or some other gigantic object crashing through the house. And as I ran from our bedroom bleary eyed and freaking out to check on my daughter, the light switch in the master bedroom decided to crap out at that EXACT moment. And of course it's wired to the hall light so that was out too making it nice and dark.

Needless to say I investigated the entire house and found no evidence of...anything. Nothing. Nothing even moved out of place. The only thing worse than hearing something that loud—so loud you could "feel" it—is not finding what made it!

Thankfully, my wife discovered the laundry closet metal shelving holding a large collection of christmas dinnerware collapsed onto the metal dryer. By the time we got back to bed it was almost 4 and I could not sleep. Besides I had to deal with the switch. Went and flipped the breaker back on and no go. So i waiting til 6 and made a run to Home Depot to get some replacement switches and replaced all 3.

Now it's 7:30. The power is back on in the bedroom. The laundry closet is empty. The alarm is back online. And I've been up since 3. Not looking forward to work today.

[haikuman]

Hey it's almost tomorrow *(:>*:devil:

[dmann]

Ugh. I'm glad nothing terrible happened!

I've been on the road all week for work (5 cities in 5 days tradeshow swing.) Grueling week, to say the least.

Had a nice dinner and some drinks with friends after setting up the show last night. Fell asleep around 11:00, woke up at 2:00 with a POUNDING headache. Finally fell back asleep at 4:30 but had to be up at 7. Show runs from 9-1 and then I have a 3 hour drive home. That should be interesting....

DM

[IronMac]

I wake up at 2:45 am almost every day. The other days are 4:30 am.

[Ombligo]

4am for me everyday..

and no reason for it, I wish I could sleep later

[rgG]

I hate those late night crashes. It often seems to be something in a closet or room where the sound is amplified and it sounds a lot worse than it is, which is a good news and bad bad news type of thing.

The light switch thing was just pure bad luck. Things like tha can pick the worst times to crap out.

[Speedy]

4am here, too. Usually earlier. Beat the rush.

[bazookaman]

Yeah. Well. You people are freaks.

I usually get up at 5:30 to work out. I tell you what though. 6am is THE time to go to Home Depot.

[IronMac]

Curious, how much dinnerware do you have?!

3:04 am here in SG!

[bazookaman]

I think it was like 8 place settings. The big plates, the little plates, the bowls, the glasses, the cups, the saucers etc. Pretty heavy stuff altogether.