Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

My watch stopped. Or more accurately, the battery needs replacement. On June 30th, the battery wasn’t strong enough to update the date display and then 2 weeks ago, the time hands stopped. I kept wearing the watch out of habit for a day or two (which is weird) and finally stopped wearing it.

Yes, I know. I should just get a new battery, but I haven’t gotten around to it. In the meantime, I learned that I really don’t need the watch as much as I thought. Unfortunately, it’s not because of some new enlightened state, where I transcended the bonds of our temporal existence or some mumbo-jumbo.

No, it’s because there’s a clock everywhere. There’s one on my computer at my desk, one in my car, one in every room at work and most of the rooms in my apartment. Plus there’s one on my cell phone. And one on my Blackberry. And probably in places I haven’t even noticed.

It makes me wonder, what other ridiculous redundancies do we have in our every day lives?