So they clearly are fascinated by it and wish they had an elf too, so you lie to them because you can’t be troubled to move it every night?

I don’t hate my kids. I’m willing to put in a little effort to make them happy.

Work in progress. I’ll report back.

I started with a phone alarm. But when I’m in the kitchen, or at a friend’s house, or pretty much anywhere, or my kids are still awake, I have to silence the alarm at 9:00, I can’t just let it continue going off until I have a chance to move it. If I silence it, then if it’s 3 hours later I go to bed, I’ll have forgotten about it. A phone alarm simply didn’t work.

This seems to be an unpopular opinion because there’s always people jumping in talking about running wire all over the house…but…wireless is the future.

I have around 100 smart devices in my house and they are all wireless. Mostly ZigBee and Zwave with a few wifi devices mixed in. I struggle to see many reasons to need a wired data connection outside of your network closet.