How I spent about an hour this morning around 3 a.m....

It is my great luck that I have only rarely suffered insomnia. However, this morning at around 3 a.m. I woke up to a faint electronic jingle coming from downstairs...

toodle toodle teedle teedle...

Now understand something about me--I turn off my cell phone when I get home because I don't have service at home and it just dies. I also don't have a microwave, a television, a giant computer server, or any of the normal trappings of modern life that summon obedient humans with electronic beepings. So this beeping was... scary and suspicious.



Finally, it made a noise I recognized--the jingle of my phone shutting down and turning off. I thought about it and correctly deduced that I had accidentally left my phone on, that noise was warning me that its battery was dying, and then it shut itself off in an act of self-preservation.

I'm really proud of myself that after over 5 years of owning the same phone, I had never before heard its "battery dying" alarm. That's good planning. And now I know, I was not being snuck up upon by alien spacecraft last night.

Cheers, y'all. Enjoy the weekend!