Old Fools Journal: Time Speedometer

This is a wrist watch I bought long ago for some unreasonable or other. I guess I thought I needed it but I don't know why. In any event I like it's analog looks and have used it as a speedometer to tell how fast I am traveling through time. So far all is well and I am still going at 360 seconds per hour. It's a nice speed and is about the same as my heart rate. It seems to me I am going a lot faster than that but numbers don't lie.

I have been leaning, laying or otherwise mislaying it on my desk for sometime now so in a moment of aggravation I took 20 minutes of my valuable time and bent this hanger for it. 20 minutes is a figure of speech in this case as in all things it got more complicated. First you can't get the pins for the wrist strap in this back water I live in. I tried five stores but no luck so since I don't need something that strong, because I am never going to wear a wrist watch again, I just made do with some seizing wire. The stuff is stainless steel and even in this small a gauge it is, unlike myself, really stiff an strong.

Let my explain about never wearing a wrist watch again. It isn't entirely true. I will wear my Lionel train watch for dress up (like I ever dress up) because it has a train whistle. I will wear a wrist watch that has an invisibility shield built in or a force field or just injects drugs into my skin that makes me feel good. When Timex comes out with that they have got a customer.

So I made that part in 30 minutes or so. Now I need a stand. I looked at some wood, some aluminum from an old lava lamp(looks like a rocket ship nose cone) and random bicycle parts but settled on the simplest thing which was some more seizing wire. Another 45 minutes or so.

So now which seizing wire. It comes in lots of gauges but I found a piece I had saved and it was the heaviest I had so I went with that. 20 minutes.

Bending it to the correct shape took 5 minutes.

Adjusting it to suit me took another hour.

So you see, 20 minutes. It sort of like I am going to the hardware store, I'll be back in 30 minutes. Yeah right.

Why so much trouble? It's analog, so even though most of the time I can see it without my glasses in those times when I just can not focus I can still see what time it is. Why is that important? It's not. So why? Just cause.
Besides it's radioactive and I can see it in the dark.