On Saturday I took my car up to the people who'd pronounced its wiring and hoses probably fine for the winter in order to get the bad wiring fixed. Since they're open only until 1 pm (if you believe the web site) or noon (if you believe the phone voice) Saturdays, this required getting up early since they're about twenty minutes (if you believe my father) or an hour (if you actually drive it) driving away. Since I had no reason to think this was a complicated problem I didn't feel the need to get there right as they opened, and so set my alarm clock to about an hour and a half after when I'd normally wake up for extruded office product. And, in fact, it wasn't a long fix, although it did have to wait until they cleared out room in the garage from other, earlier cars.
Since I didn't re-set the alarm time to the correct-for-workdays time after getting up and showered Saturday you can probably guess where this is going. Saturday ended up being an extremely long day for me as after the car work I puttered around a university campus and borrowed some things from the libraries that were still open. (The main library really should try putting computers connected to the library card catalogue on each floor; on the other hand, all the public terminals were being used by people playing video games or downloading tones of various sorts, so perhaps that wouldn't help.) And then off to the gettogether at my brother and his wife's, and so I didn't get back home till well after midnight and was not thinking of alarm clocks then.
Sunday night as I drifted off to sleep -- aha! -- I didn't forget this time, and I hastily re-set the clock to alarm me at around 6:15. Problem solved. And shortly after that I woke up again to switch the mode from ``off'' to ``beep'', so that it would actually alarm at the correct time. So there.
At about 6:45 my mother asked if I was going in to ``work'' today. I'd set the alarm for 6:15 pm.
Trivia: In 1898 Reuters earned £1,200 in revenue from North America. Source: The Power of News: The History of Reuters, Donald Read.
Currently Reading: 1898: The Birth of the American Century, David Traxel.