"Alexa, what time is it?"

"Joe! Its 9:20 am.  Enjoy your sunny day."

TIME

Fifty years ago, I found myself lifting my right arm every few minutes to check on the "time" shown on my very expensive wristwatch. I decided this was wasting my "time," and threw the darned thing into the Acushnet River.

Why did I need a "time" piece on my body when there were clocks everywhere?

Even today, an inventory of my current home shows the number of "time" pieces that are available to me:

Kitchen:  On two landline telephones

                On my Alexa "Show"

                 On my cell phone

                 On the oven

                  On the microwave

                   On a window sill.

My Bedroom:  On my Alexa 

                         On my two PC's

                         On my TV, if I ever turn it on

Elaine's Bedroom:  On her telephone

                                On her TV

                                 Next to her bed

Great Room:  On the TV

                        On the telephone

                         On the wall

That's at least 17!  Why would I want this excess of "time" tellers?"

Hey! Why not do your own inventory.. you may be surprised.

If you don't have enough clocks,  I have a whole box of ones that have never been used.

TEMPUS FUGIT

Per Wiki:  ("Time" flies!)  From Virgil's Georgics: "... as 'fugit reparabile tempus.' (It escapes irretrievable time.)"

TIME FLIES

Time flies like an arrow;

Fruit flies like bananas.

WIKI says this is a good example of antanaclasis * or the repetition of a single word, but with a different meaning each "time."

Even though I am a so-called wordsmith, this word * baffles me.  Instead, I would rather use "syntactic ambiguity."

TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE

How true. There are at least three songs with that first line, only one of which I would like my grandchildren to hear.  It was sung many years ago by Helen Forrest (1917-1999).  It was first heard in the movie Shine On Harvest Moon.  I love the tune and the words.

Time waits for no one

It passes you by.

It rolls on forever 

Like the clouds in the sky.

Time waits for no one

Goes on endlessly

Its just like a river

flowing out to the sea.

Time waits for no one

LET'S MAKE LOVE WHILE WE MAY!

About Time; A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

By David Rooney (noted British Horologist)

Two separate book review magazines gave "glowing" reviews this week to Rooney's book about "time."  I downloaded it to my Kindle and can't wait to read it.

Some things I want to investigate:

01. Clock Tower (1859)  became Elizabeth Tower (2012) but is  commonly called Big Ben. Enormous bells serenade Londoners every quarter hour, but nobody complains.

02.  The Makkah clock in Mecca.  Supposed to be the largest clock in the world, but you have to be Muslim to check it out. 

03.  The clock history of Saint Mary's church in Luebeck, Germany.

04.  From sundials to plutonium fueled clocks.

O.K. Its "time" to do other things.  Bye.