I used to get a little thrill back when telephones still had dials by calling “Time”. Not in the playground sense but literally, in that I could call a phone number and get the exact time from a recording. Did you ever do this? Do they even still have that service, I wonder?

I have no idea what the attraction was back then but time is still very important to me, probably too important. I’m so conscious of it that I only take my watch off to shower which is ironic because all my watches are waterproof. What’s that about?

The irony doesn’t end there though because I don’t use an alarm clock. That seems odd to me for someone so concerned with time but my internal clock is so well tuned that I invariably wake up whenever I need to. The only time I set an alarm is when I have to get up extra early for a flight or something but I still manage to wake up before it goes off probably due to the anxiety of having to wake up earlier than normal.

You might be stumbling over “all my watches” at this point. It’s embarrassing to admit but my watch collection has overflowed the nice box I received as a gift last year specifically to store “all my watches”. It’s gotten so bad that *E* asked if I’d like a new or larger box for Christmas this past year. I said no based on the premise that water finds it’s own level. Bigger box equals buying more watches which would invariably overflow whatever size box I could get. At least I know myself, watch fetishist that I am.

The other problem with “all my watches” besides storage is the act of setting them and keeping them accurate. It’s a question of who is the boss of the watches, time-wise. The answer is none of them. For this, I turn to the federal government because while I may not be able to call “Time” anymore, I can look it up on the internet thanks to the Fed.

And now you can to, I give you The Official U.S. Time. Just click your time zone and get The Time. In case you’re wondering, my current wristwatch is running ten seconds behind as of this post. I better fix that.

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