As most of you who know me realize, there's always some craziness in my life -- I like to think it's just because I am an exciting person :).
For the last three months, however, my computer has been beeping at precisely 1:09 A.M. and 3:09 A.M. every night. It beeps 14 times each time and then stops. No one seems to know why these mysterious noises occur. I have been having trouble with Time-Warner's e-mail, so I thought initially it was a problem on their end, but lately I'm afraid some hacker, or possibly an alien, has decided to use my computer for unexplained purposes.
For the last three months, however, my computer has been beeping at precisely 1:09 A.M. and 3:09 A.M. every night. It beeps 14 times each time and then stops. No one seems to know why these mysterious noises occur. I have been having trouble with Time-Warner's e-mail, so I thought initially it was a problem on their end, but lately I'm afraid some hacker, or possibly an alien, has decided to use my computer for unexplained purposes.
The weirdest thing in this nightly beeping saga occurred, however, while I vacationed in Vermont at the beginning of September. Even when I turned my cell phone off in the hotel room at night, unexplainable beeping occurred at 1:09 and 3:09 A.M. each night to wake my cranky sister and me up. Was my cell phone talking to my computer back in Ohio?
Saturday, Matt, my son, finally came down from Columbus to see if I had lost my marbles, or I, indeed, heard beeping in the middle of the night. He decided to sleep on the living room couch so he could be on the scene to check my computer in the middle of the night. He set his alarm so he could get up at 1 and 3 and be ready at the computer to find whatever was causing such chaos in my life.
I fell asleep in one of the recliners so I could help if needed. When the computer began its usual beeping, I saw him looking at the monitor and clicking on a couple of things, before swinging around in the computer chair. He picked up an object off the table, tilted the object toward his ear, and asked, "What's this?"
Surprisingly, I could see in the dim light he held my blood sugar monitor which I keep beside the computer. It took a moment for my sleep-riddled brain to think. It couldn't be the battery as the low battery light would display. There are alarms on a blood sugar meter? Who knew. Not me.
Matt sighed. I sighed. It all made sense. My computer didn't beep; my blood sugar meter in the sack beside the computer did. My phone didn't beep in the hotel room; it was the meter in my purse beside the phone. Somehow I must have bumped the buttons on the meter in a certain sequence to set two different alarms on the meter?
Matt googled how to turn off the alarms so all the crazy, pre-dawn commotion would cease. Back to sleep for both of us. Dreams of Donald's Donuts were in the air. Case of the Mysterious Computer Beeping solved.
