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Tealin ([personal profile] tealin) wrote2008-05-30 06:06 pm
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Of Mad Mockingbirds and Clock Batteries

I.
Our neighbourhood has many interesting residents, but one of the most notable (or perhaps noticeable) is a certain mockingbird. I can only describe him as ... talented. I hear him practising his repertoire daily: not only does he do the local mockingbird standards but he can imitate the calls of other birds, several different remote-activated car lock signals, and a sampling of other sounds. But, as with humans, genius is often accompanied by madness, and he does this at one in the morning.

II.
A couple weeks ago I lost track of time. My turtle watch died, the clock in our living room ran out of batteries, the new pendant watch I got in the mail arrived similarly without charge, and I'd left my cell phone charger at work so when it inevitably died the only way I had of telling the time was by computer. Eventually this coincidence of timelessness was resolved, though the wall clock doesn't seem to like rechargeable batteries much. Today I moved desks at work and the little alarm clock I have above my workspace lost its battery. I found it and put it back in but it doesn't work now. Is this a test, or a sign? Or just random fluctuations in the space-time continuum? Anyone know where I can find an honest to goodness wind-up clock?
(Not the one Ikea had; it's sealed like a tin and doesn't last long)

[identity profile] fani.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my. Did Lobsang attack your house with Deja Fu ?:D

[identity profile] twirlynoodle.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Surely this is the only possible explanation. (Gosh, I haven't read that one in a while...)