Daylight Savings Time: Bane of Clock Collectors

If you're a clock collector, there are two things you hate: spring forward and fall back. Crazy-clock-lady, above, has 4,000 clocks to re-set, while crazy-clock-guy here, will spend two weeks re-setting his clocks to the correct time. That's a sign of a true clock collector: no matter how many you have, ten, a hundred, a thousand, if your clock collection isn't accurate, you may as well toss the whole lot in the trash. You're not a real clock collector.

Hey! It's That Thing!

When I designed this webpage, I used details taken from a Sears catalog to get the funky shapes -- and there's one person out there who knows it:



Yes, that is the exact clock from which I adapted that circle-thingy in the upper- left- hand- corner of this blog. Photo above copied from Retrothing, who claims to have copied it from BigHappyFunHouse.