I Don't Have Time For This

"What time is it?"

A simple question that used to have a simple answer.

• Look at watch or clock
• Done

Violent abuse of Moore's Law has changed this up a bit.

• Look at smartphone.
• Check office and personal email while you're at it.
• Also check to-do list and calendar.
• Suddenly remember that you forgot to tell someone at the office something important.
• Call office.
• Notice Mother's number in the quick dial list and realize you haven't called in weeks.
• Call Mom.
• Call customer to answer question asked in another glanced at email because hammering out a email response with your thumb is a royal pain.
• Remote into a server to see why it sent you the panicked email you glanced at before making all the damned calls.
• Become aware of the passage of large chunks of time.
• Ask self, "What time is it?"

To break this cycle, I dug out two of my watches. Both had dead batteries and thus were taken to a jeweler to have new ones installed.

The results of this trip will not be chronicled. Suffice it to say, it was a mistake¹

One fifteen minute visit to Amazon followed by two day's shipping and handling later, I am wearing a Seiko Kinetic. No winding. No battery replacement. No, "I'm at work 24/7", rabbit hole.

And I couldn't be happier.