Tired now

[dagibbs]

Skiing was good. A bit chilly. Ok, quite a bit chilly: the high hit -20C (plus, there was, as always at Tremblant) wind. Apparently, I can still ski pretty well. Always good to know.

Now, though, I'm exhausted. 4 hours driving and a solid day of skiing both contributed. But what really didn't help was that they decided to do snow-removal on my street, so from 1am to 5am there were intermittent but frequent periods of truck reversing beeps. And they sound far too much like an alarm clock. And I knew I needed to wake up early. I went to bed a bit after midnight, I got up at 6, and I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep much between 1am and 5am. I even tried ear plugs -- nope, not enough sound dampening.

Comments

[ami-b.livejournal.com]

I have never understood why they can't just TURN OFF that infernal beeping between the hours of 11 and 7. It can't be that hard!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/niall_/]

I doubt there's a choice, I think it's hard-wired as security feature - if something that big and heavy and massive backs up, you definitely don't want to be behind it. F=MA is not your friend in those situations.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yes... alternatives have been conceived, but nothing has been approved yet.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yup, as Niall says, safety. I would guess, even, law-mandated safety feature.

[redrunn.livejournal.com]

A bit late now, but do you have anything you could use as a white noise generator? I'm wondering if you could drown out the sound from the street, while still not being so loud as to overwhelm your alarm clock?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Difficult... those beeps are intended to be audible over largish white-noise generators already... that is, to be heard over the sound of large diesel engines running.