How difficult can it be to wait for the coffee in the morning? Many coffee makers have timers that you set so it's ready when you are. I just saw a commercial for an energy drink. The "plug" or tag line is not having to wait for your morning coffee. Five hour energy drink, "it's ready when you are."
We had a short power outage sometime last night. Many of clocks, but not all, were off this morning. I first noticed the microwave was blinking so I checked the time on the cable program guide, which was on.
Every so often we add, or retire, or replace an appliance of some sort in the house, lots of them have clocks, or timers. I like to think I am not dependent on most of this stuff, but I am. On any given day I can spend several hours reading, a real book. If we had an outage I doubt I could relax enough to concentrate on reading. I would be upset over what we couldn't do.
If you have a book reader thingy with nothing on it, and, you have a large and long power outage, can you download a book?
I took a look around the family room/kitchen as I was resetting the clock on the microwave. We have a small three bedroom bath and a half house. We never use the living room. The front bedroom we call "the closet room." This is where Wanda has most of her stuff and does any ironing. We added shelving to the closet and keep pantry type stuff and extra kitchen appliances in there.The second bedroom is "the computer room" and the desk top is in there. We use the kitchen, family room, bathrooms, and master bedroom as our "living spaces."
We like our small house. It's easy to take care of. We would never get lost in this place. When I'm gone Wanda feels secure here. I can not imagine ever needing cell phones to communicate in here. We can yell, or, maybe get a couple of cans and some string. I know we sure don't need all of these clocks. It's not like we cover more than one time zone.
In the family room/kitchen we have: A clock on the microwave and one on the stove. There is a clock on the TV but we don't set it. A clock on the I-pod dock and one on the cable box.The DVD player has a clock and so does the cordless phone. We also keep the Dell lap top in here, that has a clock too. In this one room I count nine since the Acer I'm using also has a clock.
There is just one in the living room. It's a timer (with a clock) that controls a light. We set it up before I went to Michigan so Wanda wouldn't come home to a dark house. It is electronic and has fourteen on, off, and random settings. You can set it for one day a week up to all seven days. Or, just week days or week ends. It took me a long time to get it set correctly. I know this summer it will be light out for several hours when it's on but next winter it'll be OK again.
Walk down the hallway you'll see one on the alarm keypad. This one is always set to daylight savings time since I don't know how to change it. Just about two feet away is the clock on the programmable thermostat. This state of the arts piece of electronics has settings that will turn the heat or air on or off ten times a day. It can control week days, week ends, or a combination of the two. We don't use any of the timers since I can't figure out how to set them. We use the heat and cool buttons and the up and down buttons, that keeps us warm, or cool.
There are several in the computer room. One on the wall and one on the phone.One on the TV/ computer monitor, the cable box, and the computer. Our bedroom has an alarm clock and a wall clock. The alarm has two settings but that's so you will wake up, not know what time it is.
One of my most favorite things when I was a kid was waking up Saturday morning. Well, waking up any morning was great. I mean it was thinking it was a school day and realizing it wasn't. Many of the clocks in the house also have day/dates on them. It would be real difficult to make that mistake these days.
I didn't count the two wrist watches and the two cell phone clocks we have here.
I may be off, don't think so. We have nineteen clocks, or time tellers of one sort or another here in this house. I could pull the car in the garage which would make an even twenty. What I learned from this exercise was; we should never, ever, ever, be late.
I wonder how many clocks my doctor has?
A couple of "she said" "he heard"
She said, "I have to leave these pants on." He heard, "I have to get a tampon"
She said, "I don't know why it stopped making coffee?" He heard, "I don't know why it stopped making copies."
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