It’s easy to use the ezWake iPod Alarm Clock Radio to make waking up a more pleasant experience.  But I find it’s more hilarious to use this amazing device to torture my wife.  Naturally, she was extremely pleased when I bought her the ezWake for her birthday—it’s a great gift!  You can wake up to any song in your iPod that you choose, or a random song if you’d prefer.  It beats the hell out of being bludgeoned awake by the morning news on NPR, let me just tell you.  But sometimes, after she’s gone to sleep, I like to replace her iPod in the alarm clock’s cradle with my own.  Unbeknownst to her, instead of waking up to the lilting soft rock of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon,” she’ll be roused from her slumber by the face-melting riffage of Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold.”  Or perhaps she’d prefer the booming bass and fury of Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise!” Her fate is in my hands. I find it’s a nice touch as well to hide the remote so she can’t change the track or turn the volume down.  Gets her heart rate up faster than a morning jog would!

It’s a fool-proof prank: She’s unconscious, so it’s not like she can catch me in the act.  I do somewhat fear reprisals, though. If I’m not careful, I could be blasted out of bed by Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” or Salt ‘n Pepa’s “Push It.”  That’s why I’m always careful to keep the ezWake remote on my nightstand.  Preparation, after all, is the key to security.