davidcook

Every winter, sometime around July, there's a cold, windy and damp week where I ride to work once or twice and think "now why didn't I do more riding in summer ? When it's warm, and I get to ride home in daylight, and probably won't get rained on and even if I do, it'll be warm".

This year, I managed to do more riding in the summer, particularly in February. In fact, I worked from home on four days, rode to work on 15, and only took the train once, on Tuesday this week.

I was trying to make it a train-free month, but the pouring rain on Tuesday morning persuaded me otherwise - at my current office, if my cycling gear gets wet on the morning ride, there's no good way to dry it in time for the evening ride, and cold, wet cycling gear that's been hanging around in a bag all day is extremely unpleasant to put on.

I may try to make March train-free as well, with one WFH day each week, and plenty of riding, but Autumn is just around the corner, and I wouldn't want to bet on too much more dry and warm weather to ride in. And then the end of the month will roll around and DST will end, and it'll be back to long sleeves and riding home in the dark and waiting for October to come back again ...

It seems simple - I want to play music quietly while heading off to sleep, and loudly in the morning, preferably all from my iPod. [1]

There's an alarm mode, which lets me pick a playlist to start up with, and a sleep timer, but I can't see an easy way to adjust the volume of one or the other to meet the requirement.
Any suggestions ?


[1] Many years ago, I used to do this using a timer switch, a dual tape-deck and a CD player - before sleep, I'd put deck 2 in record mode, then pause it - then I could play a CD and adjust the recording volume to quieten it. The timer would turn everything off after a while. In the morning, it would turn everything on at a suitable time, and the tape-deck could be set to automatically start playing from deck 1 - and this was playing at full volume, so could be suitable for waking me up (I can sleep through surprisingly loud music, though - I once had a nap while at a rave).