Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 09, 2024

ROFL!

It’s a Guy thing. Arlo is putting way too much effort into something that Janis just can’t see the what for.

It really must be a guy thing, I do that with my microwave and stove clock!

Arlo, while you’re at it there’s a clock in my living room that is two minutes fast.

To put myself to sleep at night I have to exercise by pacing back and forth in my apartment. At one end is the real oven and at the other is the toaster oven. I have to set their clocks to the same time or I drive myself crazy seeing different times. But once I set them they drift at the same rate, indicating they’re getting their accuracy from the AC frequency, which is drifting in relation to cell phone time. It’s a sign that the power grid is stressed, but what else is new?

I think Janis’ default setting is finding stuff for Arlo to do, regardless of how mundane the task is. If she was that bothered by the calendar, she could have flipped it herself 3 months ago!

Like she wouldn’t have changed it early April!

The only problem with this scenario is microwave clocks (at least the ones I’ve had throughout the years) only display hours and minutes. Does anyone else have a microwave that displays seconds?

He’ll probably have to flip the calendar page at exactly midnight.

Let’s synchronize our watches

They still use a physical calendar? I left mine on Mr May. lol

The clocks on the stove and microwave above the stove are 1 minute apart. I don’t care. I’ll try to correct them twice a year when daylight savings starts and ends.

A paper wall calendar. How quaint.

I’m with you Arlo. I keep all the clocks to be set accurately as possible.

“…measure with a micrometer, mark with a piece of chalk, cut with an axe…”

and you get it set…and along comes a power outage…

I leave clocking to the clocks, appliances do not need to know the time. One exception: the programmable thermostat.

Priorities!

Old saying: “A man with two watches never knows the correct time”

Back when we had Caller ID on our landline, my wife would never clear out the history. When I came across the phone, I would clear it out. I couldn’t stand to see that list. It’s the same now with phone text messages. I keep mine cleared out and filed, hers is a mass mess!

I kinda know what Arlo is going through. I don’t set my electronic clocks to the second (bedroom clock, microwave and oven), but…I own a full size grandfather clock, and when it chime strikes, it better match what my watch says! Setting a grandfather clock to the minute and keeping it’s accuracy with the pendulum is still one of the most challenging tasks I’ve accomplished!

I set the clock on the microwave 5 minutes fast so that we get out of the house on time when we’re going somewhere.

March? Which year?

My Mrs. will complain about the microwave/oven/coffee maker clocks being out of sync or a minute fast/slow but the calendar is typically a month behind…

Yep. My wife always spends hours looking for a new wall calendar every Christmas, proudly puts it up in her sewing room, and then forgets about it after March.

My job is to make sure the clocks match.

D’Dad is right. All my house clocks are synchronized but the clock in my car has gained 3 minutes and I am letting it continue. Helps me get to places on time. A guy thing.

It’s July. Arlo has a few months to change.

I dunno, but sometimes, it feels as tho the calendar never left “Pandemic”

The clock on my Microwave loses time quite quickly (a minute every couple of days), I’ve given setting it and it just says 0:00 from last time it was disconnected from mains

My parents have a microwave that won’t work unless the clock is set. No one has the patience to figure out how to set the correct time, so it gets reset to midnight every time the power is out. I occasionally debate buying them a new one, but they wouldn’t switch it out until the old one stops working.

Now Janis did it. After that distracting query, Arlo will need to wait 57 seconds for the next synchronization opportunity.

LOL, I just did this on my microwave!

Husband is annoyed that my bedroom clock is 3 minutes fast or slow – I forget which. The clock is poorly designed and to change the time involves holding the minute/hour buttons on the top of it and letting go at the precise, exact split second that is the correct time. It never works exactly as I can never let go of the button fast enough. I figure within 3 minutes is perfectly fine as we rarely need to be somewhere that exactly on time.

His clock – on his side of the bedroom – is EXACT! He says it is like 2 different time zones.

When we were working we needed to get up at different times which is why we each have a clock. Short of the one day a month I go to my embroidery club we get up at the same time these decades, but have kept the two clocks. My clock is on 24 hour time. Why? When I used to have to get up for work I would keep getting up all night checking that the alarm was on – and before I had it set to 24 hours I would also be checking that I had it set for the am time and not the pm time – the 24 hour clock solves that problem at least. (I do lose one of the formerly twice a day “magic times” on the clock by doing this. Magic times? My childhood home’s address is 3 digits and I like to see the clock when it shows that time, due to the 24 hour setting it now only shows that time once a day.

I am sure that our kitchen clock, etc is also off a bit, but it does not really matter either.

The clock on the VCR in our bedroom is the easiest and most logical to reset I have ever seen. I enjoy the process whenever it is necessary.