White Noise

The hotel room was entirely too quiet; no background noise, nothing but my own lumpy heartbeat in my ear canals, and the window heater/cooler lacked a fan-only option.

Inspiration: they must make a white noise app, right? Indeed, there are several free varieties, and as soon as I get it running, I wonder how it is that I've ever slept in hotels before without it.

Sweetie has tv quietly on, for his own background falling asleep noise, but unfortunately, the talking he finds relaxing (cable news) drills incessantly into my brain, preventing my drifting into sleep.

Brilliant solution: balance my phone on the side of my head, placing the white noise directly between me and the tv bloviation!

I drift off, with a smile on my face, deeply relaxing into this perfect sleep aid invention...

...until the very moment that someone updates their Facebook status, causing a vibration notice to vibrate directly into my skull, tazing me back to consciousness and raisng me several inches off the bed.