Meanwhile

The book is absorbing all of my attention, as I sit on the couch late at night, reading.

An impulse comes to me, and I lift my arm in front of my face. I stare blankly at my bare wrist where my watch has been during the day. As I look around the room, I see that the VCR is turned off. There is no clock on the wall. The entire room contains nothing that will tell me when now is.

At moments like these, in the small hours,

time ceases to pass, and in fact, to exist.


There is only

now.

Problems other people will envy me for

I'm sitting in the presentation room, setting up our video splitter stuff, when a thought suddenly hits me like a flash of lightning out of a clear sky. What time is it? It got so late yesterday, so I didn't remember to...

Adrenaline floods my body. I feel a sudden rush of cold as the veins in my arms dilate.

I glance at my watch. It's not too late.

I jump up and run down the stairs, into the ground floor office, past coworkers looking up in surprise as I rush past them. Reaching my room, I almost jump over my desk, slamming into the chair.

I open Remote Desktop and connect to my home computer. The clock in my screen's upper right corner shows 16:55 - I made it in time.

I start EyeTV on my home computer.

I click on Record.