Clocks

For the past few months, the regular clocks in my home (e.g. watches, clocks w/ faces, alarm clocks, coffee maker clock, microwave clock, etc.) have consistently run several minutes behind what all my computerized clocks say despite my resetting them to match. Our computers & cell phones constantly update themselves to match the time given by the internet-atomic-clock-thing... my other devices are older and obviously can’t.

None of this would have caught my attention if all my other clocks weren’t EXACTLY the same number of minutes behind, EVERY time. I’ll reset them to match my computers... then a few days to a week later... they are all behind again by exactly the same number of minutes. It’s really annoying when the DJ on the radio says one thing and the clock on the radio says another. It’s been too much for my slowly waking brain to handle in the wee hours of the morn’.

WTF?? Is there a "Time Gnome" resetting all my old-school clocks? Or is the atomic time running faster than normal? Are we spinning closer to / farther from the sun? Is someone taking the old adage, "Not enough hours in the day," literally? Perhaps it’s a ploy to make interest accumulate faster on our debts/savings. Maybe my old clocks have expired somehow and aren’t 2008 compliant. Ugh, this annoyance probably only involves my clocks. I’d like to think that aliens are involved though. Aliens are cool.

I just thought that by sharing this oddity with the Internet, it will cut it out and leave time well enough alone. I want my missing minutes, buddy. I want them back now.

+ann