So Many Clocks, So Little Time
I have too many clocks.
When I got up this morning and glanced at my wireless digital weather station for the outside temperature, the time on its atomic clock didn't match my watch. It was then that I remembered I needed to reset my non-atomic clocks (i.e., nearly all of them). Let's see...
- Microwave (digital) – check.
- Stove (digital) – check.
- Answering machine (digital) – check.
- Kitchen wall clocks (two, analog) – check, check.
- Wristwatch (digital) – check.
- PowerBook (digital, duh) – check. (No, I don't have it on automatic time check. The laptop is asleep or off much of the time so it would rarely be live when it should make the check.)
- Living room wall clock (analog) – check.
- Alarm clock (digital) – check.
- Bathroom wall clock (analog) – check.
- Damn... even the atomic clock in the bedroom doesn't change automatically – I have to slide a switch to turn off DST. Check.
There's probably one or two more lurking around that I've missed. Definitely too many clocks.
3 comments:
Since nearly every appliance comes with a clock nowadays, you don't have to use all of them. In our kitchen that has a clock on the stove, thermometer (see? everything!) and, well, the clock on the wall, we don't set the clock on the microwave. Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand. Of time.
By the time you've checked them all, you're probably late anyway.
I love having cloacks all over the place as well!!
But I think almost everyone I know is in the same boat when it comes to changing the clock on their car radio - who can remember the strange button combo it will take to change the time?
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