The Clock Museum and a trip to the soccer stadium

On Wednesday I went to the uh.....Clock Museum. I was thinking I was going to be bored but I wasn´t. There are 300 clocks from about 1650 AD on. I learned some history and was reminded how creative man is. There was a sundial - a few of the clocks in the collection weren´t mechanical, but most were - this sundial had a glass lense and a functioning canon, about a foot long. If you line up the clock correctly and throw a little gunpowder in the canon, it fires at 12 PM. I left with a general appreciation of the convenience of our system for dividing time, whatever that means to you. Imagine trying to make plans to meet someone during the day 2 weeks from now, say at 3:45 PM, without being able to say 2 weeks from now at 3:45 PM. (This might be too primitive an imagination.) Here goes:

Hey, neighbor, meet me during the day, 14 risings of the sun from now, when she´s halfway between her high point in the sky and the horizon. Don´t you be a few degrees of declination late!!! I have to meet my mother-in-law 465 winks later.

I went with the 5th and 6th graders on another field trip today - this time to the municipal sport complex. That was great.

TGIF. Have a nice weekend if you´re reading this today.

I told you my blog would be boring.