{"id":33289,"date":"2023-05-01T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=33289"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:51:50","slug":"33289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=33289","title":{"rendered":"Getting Wound Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_6451\"<\/a>Most of my watches are mechanical, which means they run down and stop when not in use. Any time I put one on I start from scratch: winding it, setting the time, setting the day and date. I now have three quartz watches to wear in rotation, and of course they never stop running. While they don’t usually need to be set, when a month with 30 days ends their date windows show the 31st, not the 1st. Simple to adjust, no? Actually a bit of a production, and since it only happens every few months, they’ve lost or gained a few seconds and that has to be adjusted as well.<\/p>\n

While I was at it this morning inspiration hit and I swapped out a buckle on one of the straps, replacing a silver one with a black one to match the black watch it’s paired with. Time invested: almost half an hour, and I had fun doing it. Now for Donna’s quartz watches.<\/p>\n

Such is the life of a watch nut. Hey, better this than being a gun nut or whatever.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of gun nuts, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, announced a $50,000 reward<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for “info on the criminal who killed 5 illegal immigrants Friday.” Not only did he go out of his way to brand the victims, he highlighted the shooter’s immigration status as well \u2014 he too is “in the country illegally.”<\/p>\n

Next, I suppose, the cops’ll hold a press conference to tell us the slain family members (who brought on their own murders by asking their neighbor, the killer, to stop firing an AR-15 assault weapon in his front yard because their baby couldn’t sleep) were no angels, and possibly that the 9-year-old victim had overdue library books.<\/p>\n

I grew up around nasty bigots like Greg Abbott. They filled the pews of the Southern Baptist churches my mother dragged me to. They are the reason I’m an atheist today.<\/p>\n

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This is brilliant. Understated and very British.<\/p>\n

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??”Our hope is…that when the Archbishop invites people to join in, that people wherever they are, if they’re watching at home…watching the telly, will say it out loud – this sense of a great cry around the nation and around the world of support for the Cierva Air Horse” ?? pic.twitter.com\/FLpIkMWZx9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Echoes in the Sky (@exoticaviation) April 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n