Hawaii Konate, the people who keep me posted on what time it wasn’t over the past while, what time they think it probably isn’t now, and what time they’re middling sure it won’t be in the future sent me a nice greeting by email.
The card arrived in my hotmail email box at 3:25 AM someone’s time, maybe mine, maybe theirs, maybe hotmail’s. I’m not sure whether that picture is of something at the Hawaii site, or whether it’s wherever they speak the language at the top of the circular they send out: BUREAU INTERNATIONAL DES POIDS ET MESURES, ORGANISATION INTERGOUVERNEMENTALE DE LA CONVENTION DU METRE. [Muddy muddy muddy etcetera]
But even if I knew what time it wasn’t in that city where the place on the card isn’t, I still wouldn’t know what that thing is they sent me a picture of wishing me a Merry Christmas.
I generally don’t like people telling me what kind of Christmas to have, but especially I don’t like them telling me how to have a whole year. But in this instance, they did let themselves be nailed down on the thorny issue 0f 2012. 2012, unless they’re being cunningly sarcastic, isn’t a time that won’t happen.
The card didn’t come with one of the circulars they send out telling what time it hasn’t been all over the place, what time they don’t think it is now, and what time they don’t think it will be in the future. That would be unsettling if they hadn’t gone ahead and mentioned 2012 in the card.
So maybe there was no authoritarian motive behind telling me what kinds of Christmas and 2012 to have. Maybe they were being subtly reassuring.
I suppose it’s probably best not to try to second-guess them.
Old Jules
So Far From Heaven 
Methinks that’s a picture from the roof of one of the BIPM buildings in France. The device hogging the foreground is just one of those wireless communication devices which festoons the roof of most buildings which house serious scientific laboratory equipment. Of course, I have no idea what they use it for, but it’s basically a radio antenna.
Morning Ed. I thinks you’re likely correct. Studying the pic more closely I can make out the whatchallit, Eiffffle Tower thing in the deep background. I think that nails down the where, the little hat looking thing the what. Gracias, Jules
LOL good post Old Jules! I don’t care what time it is or what time it isn’t. Makes no never mind to me, if I can get my truck running it means its time to go to work, when I have a load on it’s time to haul it in, when I’m hungry its time to eat. Time just stresses me out.
Morning Carrie: I almost never know what time it is, but I do study time in various ways. Knowing what time it wasn’t and when it wasn’t is fairly handy to me in one of the projects I work on. Gracias, Jules
if it were red it would be a heck of a panic button….
Rich: Maybe a white panic button trumps a red one. Gracias, Jules
It, the thing in the foreground, made me think of a CD with something crazy sitting on top of it. LOL You need one of those clocks that they used to sell at the Aztec Restaurant that said at the top of it “What Ever” with the hours spilling all over the face of the clock. Never mind that I don’t own one it is the one I go by. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and some lovely lady you like brings a bit of mistletoe to kiss you under….since it can be found not to far away in Texas.
Hi Mary: I’m thinking I’ll go to Kerrville for groceries once between now and Christmas, but other than that I don’t actually expect to lay eyes on another human being until sometime the week afterward. But maybe I can imagine one up. Gracias, Jules
My my. I reckon that there’s one of them time-generatin’ devices.
annegreye: I wish I had me one of them. Gracias, Jules