What Time Is It?

I now spend most of my time not knowing what time it is. I can ‘see’ the clock as an object but not enough details to read the time. It had become more common in the last few weeks and is just one of those things I am adjusting to.

I use to have a clock on the computer that would ‘tell’ me the time every half hour but I lost it and can’t find it (help - I’ve fallen and can’t get up). It’s one of those things I keep forgetting to mention when a person with sight visits.

I know if it is dark or light but I have no idea how much time is left of either unless I notice daylight come or go.

At night it could be 8:30 pm or 4:30 am – I have no idea.

I have been using the sun during daylight hours (if it is out) to ‘guess’ at the time and have been very successful.

Lately I turn on the radio hoping to hear the time but many times it becomes background noise and I never hear the time.

I do know when some talk show hosts are on so I know the time within three hours but that is not always fool proof since some of the hosts repeat their ‘best of’ at different times.

So far it has not been a real problem. I watch almost no TV –why watch when I can’t see it. Listening to TV is not like listening to radio – too much info missing.

For weeks my cell phone had been beeping at the same time everyday. I some how set a daily alarm I could not kill and have no idea how I set it.

This evening my daughter took me to visit my father. Her son was dressed for Halloween and she wanted to show him off. Such a cute kid – I wish I could see him.

My phone alarm went off and I asked her to ‘fix’ it. It was set for 5:32 pm daily.

So for several weeks I knew when the alarm went off it was the same time as it was yesterday and the day before that. I just didn’t know what time it was.

Think about that for a minute. You knew when a certain moment in history occurred every day but did not know (until now) what time that moment in history was.

So how do I tell time? I don’t – I guess and most times don’t care. I go to sleep when I am tired. Sometimes I wake up having no idea how long I have slept – if I feel OK I just get up – if I am still tired then I go back to sleep.

Tonight I know it was about 11:30 pm when I went to sleep. I heard it on the radio. I woke and felt pretty good so I got up to proofread another story I had written.

By now you know I don’t read a damn thing – I listen to my computer read it to me. Twice I heard the radio tell me what time it was at the same time the computer ‘spoke’ and talked over it.

I just found out it was 1245 am. That means I might have slept a half hour or less.

I think I’ll go back to bed and hope I have not screwed up this post too bad.