Lately I've felt like I'm lost in time. I've lost all sense of the precise passage of time. I'm drifting aimlessly, unstuck, not knowing when I am.
I used to wear my watch continuously, rarely removing it from my wrist.
One evening over a week ago, I washed my hands. This in itself is not terribly unusual. Nor is it unusual for such a procedure to get some water on my watch. It never bothers me when that happens, as my watch was "water resistant", capable of withstanding water pressures up to 50 meters deep. (Which has been really useful, given how often I go diving.)
After drying my hands, I wondered what the current time was. Since the room was rather dark, I pressed the watch's backlight button.
This is when, gentle reader, the excitement began.
My watch sparked and lit up like the clock tower in
Back to the Future when
Marty arranged for it to be struck by lightning, thus powering the De Lorean's flux capacitor. Only, my watch is not a clock tower. Or a cool
De Lorean time machine car. And despite being designed for water depths of up to 50 meters, my watch apparently was not designed to keep out water when a button was pressed. Which makes sense. Why would anyone want to press any button on a watch when that watch was slightly wet?
So, my watch died. And I've been lost in time ever since, unstuck, never knowing when I am.
Editor's note: The blog post's title was inspired by
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
Hey, boys and girls. Guess who has a new watch????The picture in this post doesn't look exactly like my new watch, but it's close enough. Some cool features of this new watch:
