I'm Here!

I’m in the process of moving into my new place in Houston… and it’s fantastic! It’s in an older apartment complex with trees actually taller than the three-story buildings around it (a rarity in TX). The complex also has its own convenience store, which I should check out. Seriously this place looks like I’m in the northeast… I will definitely miss my old roommates and our westward facing balcony (with spectacular sunsets nearly every day) but man. I have so much space here too! And I have a new fellow UTHSCSAn partner-in-crime Diane! YAY!

Prepare for some amazement. I bought this alarm clock at Target for $14.99. I’m totally still skeptical, but this thing has an auto-time setting system!! After it's plugged in, the time, date, and day of the week show up. I just had to set it to the central time zone. The clock has an internal computer that keeps track of everything—including daylight savings—even when the power is off! And if we lose power at night, the “mini buzzer” will go off instead of the normal alarm. I wonder what the macro-buzzer sounds like. It says it has a "crescendo alarm"... like mitral stenosis! But, hopefully much more kinder on my heart. :-)

And if that wasn’t cool enough… it has a PROJECTOR. I press a button and it’ll project the time on the ceiling, or at any wall I point it to. So this means I can wake up to check the time without moving!! And the projected image can be red, green, or blue. Did I miss something in the advancements of alarm clocks?