Clocks

[stoutfellow]

I am a clock person. I want some sort of chronometer within easy sight at almost all times. I have battery-driven clocks in the dining room, the living room, the computer room, and my bedroom. I also have a clock radio by my bed, and eight or so electronic devices with built-in clocks. Needless to say, this causes a bit of a headache at the time of transition to and from Daylight Time, although some of the electronic devices handle it automatically.

The problem with battery-driven clocks is, of course, that batteries run down. The various clocks are all at different points in their batteries' life-cycles, so it's easy to detect when one needs changing. The dining-room clock began running slow a few days back, so I got a new AA battery out and changed it.

Now it's running fast - very fast. Now what do I do? I can ignore it - the living-room clock is almost as easily visible from the kitchen - but there's something unesthetic about that solution. Or I could buy a new clock, but that offends my sense of thrift (mutant and stunted though it is).

Pfui.

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's the Clock From H*ll, all right. A couple of hours a day? Was it fine before you changed the battery? I don't know why I think it might work, but it might be worth changing batteries again. Just to see. If it was an expensive clock, is there anything like a clock repair shop in Eville?

OTOH, maybe filkferengi is on to something...you could be getting up BEFORE you went to bed (g).

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

It's not the battery; I tried changing it, and it's still gaining at a rate of about 8%. Something must be wrong with the works.

Well, I've had that clock for more than ten years...