Story of the Day

I am wearing this watch that doesn't tell me what day it is. It barely tells me the time. The only way I know its on right side up is by the location of the stem. It has no luminosity so that at night or in a dark room it is only useful as a bracelet. In the dark it doesn't even have to be a good looking bracelet. But as a lighted-space watch it looks nice. I am glad Ken gave it to me for Christmas a couple of years ago.

No politics. At least, not yet. Just know that I do vote.

Often progress does some funny things. Take for example fastening men's pants. Not that many years ago the fasteners for the vast majority of men's pants were buttons. There were the odd pair with tie fasteners but that was about it. Buttons gave a thicker line to the fly though and were considered inconvenient. Along came the zipper. It actually took quite a while for this appliance to be adopted as the fastener of choice for men's pants. After all, look where it is located. I have never liked zippers on pants. For jackets they are great and for closures on bags and such they can't be beat. But pants, especially heavy-duty work pants, have such a robust, aggressive zipper. When I was a mere tad I experienced the ultimate fear of a non-modified male child while donning pants. Fortunately by this time I don't remember the pain but I do remember the embarrassment as Aunt Vivian had to be called on to perform the extrication. I was in heaven when I found out about button fly jeans. I would buy all of my pants with a button flies if I could to prevent a reoccurrence of that awful entrapment.

January 23, 1996

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