No. Not Central Standard Time, but Confused State, Terminally.
So, we morning people finally get our hour of daylight back today,
November 3rd. Here's how it happened at my house.
We have several clocks in our house: two in the kitchen, one in my
sewing room, an alarm clock in the bedroom, one on the microwave, one
on the coffeemaker, and a wall clock in the living room. Also, the
ones in the computer and the cell phones.
I like to change the clocks early in the evening, rather than at
bedtime, so I can start orienting myself to the change. I reset the
living room clock around 5:30 while watching the comeback of the
Century Cornhuskers last second win over Northwestern. That
particular clock was about 5-7 minutes slow, but it didn't occur to
me to correct that while I had it down and messing with the time.
One of the clocks in the kitchen is needing a new battery and the
only time I think about that is when I'm glancing at it and I'll
think, “I need to get a new battery for that clock.” And then, I
promptly neglect to write it on a list. So I just turned that one
around for the time being.
The clock on the microwave has been way off for a long time,
because it bounces back to 00:00 anytime the thing is unplugged,
which happens when I need to use that outlet for some other electric
device, like the vacuum cleaner or electric mixer. The clock on the
coffeemaker is correct, but I completely forgot to reset that one to
the new time.
With help from the hubs, I got the bedroom clock reset and the
alarm set for the time I actually wanted to get up today. I also like
to use my cell phone for an alarm. Now the cell phone clock resets
itself, but when I turned on the alarm function, I left the alarm set
for the time I wanted to get up yesterday (4:30) instead of today
(5:30). So, the cell phone alarm goes off at 4:30 and I look at it
and think, “How come my cell phone didn't reset itself?” Well, it
did, but since it can't read my mind, its alarm went off at the time
it was set to go off. Then, I look at the bedroom alarm and it reads
4:30. Forgetting that we had reset it, I thought maybe it might be
5:30 and I'd better get up.
So I stumble into the kitchen to make coffee, and sure enough, the
clock on the coffeemaker reads 5:30, the microwave says 3:25, the
living room clock says 4:24. I know I didn't change the sewing room
clock, so I didn't even go look at that one. The computer and cell
phone both say 4:30 and, since they reset themselves, I have to
believe them.
How did I ever get this done before I had a computer and cell
phone?
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2 comments:
I would have gone back to bed at that point. I was waitressing that night and was pretty proud of myself for resetting all of clocks (including the microwave) in the bar and at my house when I got home at 3:00/4:00 AM when I got home.
I was feeling pretty proud of myself and set my cell phone alarm for the right time to get up for church and excited that with the time change I could sleep for five hours instead of four.
As it turned out I forgot to turn back one clock - my sweet mama. She showed up at my door step an hour early. She'd forgotten the time change. The good news is that it was the first time that we've done anything together that we were both on time!
We went out tonight (12-15) to eat with friends and Mrs. Jim said we sure were gone a long time, it was getting late. My Mustang clock said 10:00. But I knew it wasn't that late, so I hadn't changed the clock yet.
I hope you aren't confused any more up there. Happy Birthday!!
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