However, I was too lazy to call the desk and schedule a call (yeah, really). I bet I can make iTunes do it.

Except I was too lazy to fire up Script Editor, figure out how to refer to an item, and play it. Yes, it would have taken 5 minutes to write the script.. but I'm on vacation.

The solution? Automator. Drag, Drop, and three steps later I had a simple application that played a song in iTunes. Then I scheduled this in iCal for the time I wanted to wake up.

I probably could improve it (maybe with some tail recursion?) but here it is: iTunesAlarm

It's a neat example of how easy it is to make a simple application with Automator, and it has a snooze feature.

I have some other thoughts on Automator, but not now.