For "my birthday":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/000844/ my mom got me a "CD alarm clock":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000UL34C/, which I sorely needed. The alarm clock I had was probably at least 15 years old, and would make a nice loud pop when the radio alarm would turn out that basically sounded like a small gun going off in the room... not the most peaceful way to wake up. So, all eager to try out the CD function, I put in "one of my favorite":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000036X3/ "Yo La Tengo":http://www.yolatengo.com/ discs last night. Problem is, you can't pick which track it starts with; it just goes from the beginning. I have to say that waking up to this song is probably not not the most motivational way to get out of bed.