- makes me cough uncontrollably like a sailor,
- makes my throat feel like the cats are using it as a scratching box
- makes snot run unaided out of my nostrils, over my lip and into my mouth.
![Sick Old Clock Sick Old Clock](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46oH0dl5nUAam2uw83_u1Mf_80NHfvNZK5szAqtibCvsj228m1N3l76okfD87Qp3WumalSFXT4dxfrg1F3iJgBu1qFMlIWlHG2zd2BEe2gh9LKSLlSQuL9yuCxy-B2oulv7zyIg/s400/Clock+1.jpg)
Here are pictures of a clock in my office - it's a Micronta Timer, sold by Radio Shack - an electronic on and off box that I've had, oh, since the eighties.
![Sick Old Clock Sick Old Clock](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAKPcom6RPlSagDP30OjD9whx3YS3pkIKFz2_vXl9zwctUyLBJxWwjCQlGI0IY-zGPVQO1sDcb6Eyy4p9YGMAushkfBymHEfoO0T3W6fpUzw_7FqZRGEW8UZCkiMb-TxfFZF2Sg/s400/Clock+2.jpg)
I used it to turn on tape recorders and radio receivers automatically at precise times to record radio broadcasts I couldn't otherwise listen to. This was well before the Internet, back when local radio still had the occasional interesting bit.
![Sick Old Clock Sick Old Clock](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjSvQK_2u95w0nhG6y_uddtja5CE3Oq0Ou5z5MOAt6kR_y48NCt4vPlWjBCtYb1kn_VjWDDySEJOX6kaitsNh9p8FBPGGZYqcNqjWO_erFxGsA950SHdwKGF27GrQdhPgJ4xqZQ/s400/Clock+3.jpg)
Some time ago Mr. Micronta Timer started displaying time in new, creative ways. These pictures demonstrate the curious symbology if offers me.
![Sick Old Clock Sick Old Clock](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNfbcKO9xWAHHkqNacGJil0-SvsSr0umHDKsXFYNFLE49Kc2VBIBYyQJ39GBz33WuGTMB7xv5um7n_PPWUYODwhVTd3VkXKN8QgC409NvvrVbRCvHO3cSo8YZTRaMmECEPvRrNiw/s400/Clock+6.jpg)
There's no way to predict the display pattern It still seems to work because the time changes every minute just like a real clock, but it offers no meaning. It has become an abstract artist of temporal display, creating a little visual decoration in its old age with the limited means available to it.
![Sick Old Clock Sick Old Clock](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrkfpUoqqubk7R0k4r70d9ZHKbeh5dDna-JKGa7fd_ogk4h7T81ggpRJ8FydAs-OeQmraVmRC9Tu__KZyQeKU2mi2lyKAdif0-AwewDcOvqP8kt_xqhRNLsDJb-7f3wJI2zM67Q/s400/Clock+4.jpg)
This week, the clock also reminds me that, while I will recover from my illness, it won't. Maybe this will prompt me to finally throw it away. Assuming I ever get my normal level of energy back.
![Sick Old Clock Sick Old Clock](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXimUNv9owLsaIE2IukNSGhepdyas06GEYLHVGl2rlVAuP3rQEu08OHJ12Bqe2EE9_aXTic5Lts0TiG45_uEPk6AJzReVGOJB80LdA7cm0ks9uCYvuYQQL53Mgni_DGHxiyYLepA/s400/Clock+5.jpg)
Notice several other unused relics of '80s office automation in the last picture: a Panasonic electric pencil sharpener and a Technics cassette dubbing deck, both of which still work if I ever care to use them - which, judging by the dust levels, is almost never.
![alt= Sick Old Clock with electric pencil sharpener and cassette dubbing deck](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQC_Y-1rkkoF2DOHP9NEVQ8nGKUUz0nHPBv5-D_8VMEAelQM5lm8W_mNdaeNF4Qy7djPxAdEjIwTzEEbt6OJ75BjCXGAYTNXirSqlSbw7AknYty7Xip5C4hQ0EVP_lRSQ6qr25wA/s320/Clock+0.jpg)
Sick Old Tags: clock. . . electronic timer. . . Micronta. . . Radio Shack. . . electric pencil sharpener. . . illness. . . symbology
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Time does not exist in an objective reality.
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