The Downfall of Techonology
March 8th, 2009
Sometime in the middle of moving last fall, I broke my trusty alarm clock and was forced to find a new one. Being the geek I am, the first one I tried let me wake up to the music of my iPod. A genius plan if music actually had the ability to wake me up. So after a week of late mornings, I headed to Target to try and find another option. Lucky for me, they had a simple, yet loud, red alarm clock on sale for 10 bucks. Even better than it’s pretty color, this alarm clock sets the time and time zone automatically when you plug it in. Needless to say for months I’v been more than satisfied with my purchase that is until this morning. In case you didn’t know, Arizona is one of two states that do not observe Daylight Savings Time. This is something my alarm clock was not aware of and something I didn’t consider when crawling into bed at oh-dark-thirty after yesterday’s marathon cleaning spree. So when I woke up for church this morning and those big red letters displayed 10:45am, I didn’t really think much of it. Disappointed in oversleeping and not being able to go to church, I rolled over and went back to sleep until my phone beeped at me. You can imagine my surprise when my phone said it was 10;41am. It took but a second for me to realize that time was not moving in reverse but that my alarm clock was set to DST. Oopsies! Worst part is…. 4 days later I still can’t figure out to reset it back an hour.
Music is my life. Everything can be expressed, handled or just felt more deeply with the right chord or phrase. I have been blessed with some amazing friends and am still at that point where my life is an open book. If you’d like, stick around for a bit and help me write a few chapters…