Atomic Clock
Apr. 30th, 2005 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Rob stole my clock last night... which resulted in us being ready & out the door for me to be at work at 9:23 by... 8:30. Every clock in this house runs on a different time zone, all of them about 10 minutes earlier or later than the one next to it. One set for the tv, one set for time to leave for work, one set for the time to wake up so I still have time to hit the snooze button... one set for the time I absolutely, positively HAVE TO GET UP and CANNOT HIT THE SNOOZEBUTTON ANYMORE AT ALL WHATSOEVER!!!, the one in my bathroom that tells me to stop screwing around & finish getting ready for work, the one on the microwave that is wonky because it's 12 yrs. old, the ones on the phone that have the time according to Sprint, the one on my stereo that's running at Pacific Standard Time, the watch in my vest pocket that is set to the time clock at work, but is running a little wonky because a) it is in my pocket & therefore w/in my personal electric field & b) needs a new battery. The only correct ones are the ones dictated by Microsoft & the CPU clocks of our computers... and the little portable battery-operated one I kept above my computer. Rob stole it because, not only does it have the time, the date & the temperature, it also has an alarm on it. He went to work last night & wanted the alarm capabilities.
So anyway, having almost a half hour to kill, we went to Wal-Greens for junk food & another digital portable battery-operated clock that has the time, date, temperature & alarm capabilities. Somehow or other, I got one w/all that and a bag of atomic chips - my new digital portable clock also has ... drumroll please ... a free satellite hook-up to the Atomic Clock at the Nat'l Institute of Space & Technology in Colorado. It also tells you what time zone you're in & automatically updates when you travel.
I don't know why all that is so important to me. Even at work... timeclock time, breakroom clock time, guest services room time, the time on Windows, the time on the AS400 that gets written down on the worksheet when dateroll starts, the time on the phone that gets written down on the worksheet when I call up front to tell them 'We're up!'... It's gotta be part of being ruled by Saturn, He of the hourglass & scythe. Harvestman Saturn, keeper of the rhythms of life and death.
On my vacation, starting whenever I get home from work til I go back to work 10 days from then, I vow to look at the clocks as little as humanly possible, the two exceptions being Monday afternoon when I have a dentist appt., and next Friday or Saturday when I need to go get my shot. Other than that, no clocks or calendars.
So anyway, having almost a half hour to kill, we went to Wal-Greens for junk food & another digital portable battery-operated clock that has the time, date, temperature & alarm capabilities. Somehow or other, I got one w/all that and a bag of atomic chips - my new digital portable clock also has ... drumroll please ... a free satellite hook-up to the Atomic Clock at the Nat'l Institute of Space & Technology in Colorado. It also tells you what time zone you're in & automatically updates when you travel.
I don't know why all that is so important to me. Even at work... timeclock time, breakroom clock time, guest services room time, the time on Windows, the time on the AS400 that gets written down on the worksheet when dateroll starts, the time on the phone that gets written down on the worksheet when I call up front to tell them 'We're up!'... It's gotta be part of being ruled by Saturn, He of the hourglass & scythe. Harvestman Saturn, keeper of the rhythms of life and death.
On my vacation, starting whenever I get home from work til I go back to work 10 days from then, I vow to look at the clocks as little as humanly possible, the two exceptions being Monday afternoon when I have a dentist appt., and next Friday or Saturday when I need to go get my shot. Other than that, no clocks or calendars.
