28 After 7

Looking at the clock, I saw it was 28 after 7. Which is about what the clock would look like if the screw in the middle came loose and the hands drooped over time.

I've had a few clocks, including one just yesterday, show a weird time, like the battery was only hitting on every other heartbeat. I have two identical watches and they both funked out, slowed to a crawl, then stopped. I know they're right at least once a day. I don't know about the other time because that's when I'm sleeping.

I see the time on the clock and it's a picture book. Like 10 after 8 or 10 till 8, it's a boy scout doing semaphore signals. Or you could have the same times I must mentioned, along with 10 after 4 and 10 till 4, and we'd have Jack LaLanne doing jumping jacks. But anytime Jack jumps those are jumping jacks.

The kids these days with digital clocks are really missing out. Except they have the joy of looking at 11:11, which gives you that ascendant feeling.

This Time Tomorrow

I'm big on thinking what will happen and what has been accomplished "This Time Tomorrow." I've been thinking it since around 4 p.m. A big example, at 4 p.m., "This time tomorrow, I will be done with my CPR/First Aid class." 5 p.m., "This time tomorrow, I will be home, then I have a few quick tasks that need to be done."

In addition to that, I'm also big on thinking about "This Time Yesterday." Like, "This time yesterday, I was buying new tires." (I wasn't, that's just an example.) It could happen that I could be thinking, "This time yesterday, I will thinking about this time today, which then was this time tomorrow." You could turn time on its head.

I think I got that from my dad, who always used to say, "Last week at this time, we were..." Or, "It was a month ago today." Or, "A month from today, we'll be..."

It's tough just to live in the moment it always is!

Daylight Savings Time

It's tonight that we all get to go back in time.

We all get to live the hour from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. twice. So if you die, let's say at 1:30 a.m., an hour later you have to wake up and die all over again.

Time and timekeeping is not a fiction. It is a cold hard fact. Everything depends on the clock. Were we not to have clocks, everything would come to an end.

The Jews Are Too Far Ahead Of Us

...meaning they're too far ahead of the rest of us.

Figure, in their time it's the year 5769 (or maybe 5770, I don't know which.)

But for the rest of us it's 2009 (or maybe 2010, I don't know which). That means they're around 3760 years ahead of us.

Jews definitely have the advantage, being so far in the future.

I joke. But in all seriousness, how are we supposed to compete with that?

Last Day Of A Short Month

February is four blocks of seven. It's a square month, or rectangular. It's a bad month for renters, a good month for people paid monthly.

The month of February is like an afterthought. It lost days somewhere. It's the "Shorty" of every popular song.

I am proud that I know how to spell February. This was one that kids had a tough time with when I was in school. They always wanted to leave out the first "r". Also in their pronunciation of it. There were lots of things like this that I always deserved a gold star for, if only the distribution of gold stars had been more widespread. I might have some of my gold stars in a box somewhere. For whatever I did, learning verses in church, for example.

The whole thing of leap year babies is crazy. We always seemed to have one kid in school -- somebody -- who'd be saying, "I'm only two years old" or "I'm only three years old." Just because their actual birthday was canceled in normal years.

See Ya in 2011!

Someone was just telling me the oldest line in the book tonight, which is how "Time flies." I say it sure does, things are always coming around, like the next morning.

(I need to make an indepth study of why it seems like time goes faster when you're asleep.)

But I really didn't think I had a blog sitting here quite this neglected, the last posts in 2005. That goes way back. Somehow this one got forgotten!

So...in case that happens again, I'll make a point of doing something else here in 2011.