Category: Time
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Ten Words for Monday
The day started off as it usually does. Early. 5:15 and the alarm woke me. And again at 5:20. And 5:25. Dark. Sunrise isn’t due at 5:30 around these here parts yet, so I had to substitute sunlight with bulb light. Wet. I take a bath every morning, and my baths are usually wet. And…
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One Minute Ramble: Rust
Creaking, flaky, eroded and weathered; Are terms I thought wouldn’t describe me, everAlthough creaking maybe… more likely flaky… Hardly partly somewhat eroded… And slightly weathered, maybe… But not me. Now. Not me, now. I’ve just compared myself to rust And in the same breath didn’t. Just…
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One Minute Ramble: Rusht
The clock’s against me No, the time, The clock, the time, They’re the same When you’re up against them. But the clock Shows the time But isn’t the time Just as time isn’t the clock… Yet to save time Clocks are digital; To waste time Clocks are slow; To emphasize time Clocks are magnificent; And…
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Sigh. Talk about one of those days. I’ll run through the morning with you: A telephone call come in for me, regarding something or other. I forget what, exactly, as the person calling was announced as David Attenborough, famed natural history and wildlife TV presenter, amongst other things. It turned out that it wasn’t David…