No cause for alarm

The advantage of somehow either sleeping through one’s alarm or having it mysteriously not work is that, well, you end up with some extra, obviously-needed sleep.

The disadvantage is that either you miss stuff that you really ought to have been on, or find yourself without your early morning time buffer that you use to get yourself oriented first thing in the morning, and instead have to go from snoozy to leading an international phonecon.

Rrg.

That this happened the morning after I spent most of the day travelling and thus was already behind on the levee-breach of e-mail was only icing on the cake.