Disjointed, drug influenced post below:
Tiff bought me a lovely mechanical Seiko watch a few weeks ago as an early Christmas present. Living with it for a month has really given me respect for mechanical watches. I used to wear a hand wound watch for several years, somewhere around 1989 to 1993. I remember I bought it at Target. It don’t remember the brand, but it worked well until it was lost during a snow shoveling experience outside my second apartment. I found it the next spring, but by then, it was rusted and ruined. I am sure if it was a Seiko it 1) wouldn’t of come of my wrist (strap failed) 2) if it did, the Stainless Steel body would not of rusted.
I remember when I was a kid, bugging Mom and Dad to get a watch. I wanted a analog watch. At the time, it was probably 1986 or 87. Everything was digital. I eventually found an all black, I believe it was a Casio Quartz, plastic watch. It was my first analog quartz. I wore that watch for years until one of the plastic lugs cracked. To this day, I can’t buy a plastic watch, no matter how cool it looks. I think Mom and Dad probably paid $30 or $40 or more for that watch, which was no small sum 20 years ago.
Back to my current watch. I really do enjoy wearing an automatic watch. It is much more ‘alive’ than my other watches. I still watch the second hand sweep across the dial. I like the fact it will probably outlive me, and I can pass it down to Glenn some day. The watch is starting to settle down, it is about +10 seconds a day fast. It was about 15 seconds a day fast in the beginning. I kind of like the fact I have to reset the time every now and then. Now I realize, you really don’t need super exact time. +/- 1 minute isn’t going to kill you.
Ahh, drugs, sweet drugs.
7 Years
Just wanted to acknowledge it has really been seven years since the destruction of the Twin Towers and the damage to the Pentagon (and the loss of the brave people in Pennsylvania). I am shocked how few flags are flying. How soon we forget. We still haven’t caught Osama Bin Laden, we are still in Afghanistan, still in Iraq (which has nothing to do with it), and still bowing to unconstitutional laws.
I just wish our government would stop hunting bogey men and trying to scare us and fix our schools and roads instead. It’ simple. Secure our borders properly, listen to people WHEN THEY CALL THE FBI TO TELL THEM THERE ARE TERRORISTS IN THEIR FLIGHT SCHOOLS and quit pissing off the rest of the world with stupid policies and illegal invasions. You really want to make life better, get off the fossil fuel teat and become a world leader, for once. Spending a trillion dollars to blow up people who did nothing to us half a world away does not make our lives better. I am sure that trillion could of been used to fix our ‘health’ care system.
Meanwhile, life still goes on. In the last 7 years, I have gotten married, had a child, changed jobs, bought a new car, etc. Personally I am pretty happy. I am happy, but I am worried about the future of our country and how quickly we forget the mistakes made.
Posted by admin on September 11, 2008 in Family, General Comments
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