precision......

ok, so the lord could strike me dead for even talking about this subject...given that i am willy-nilly about most things.......bank balances, ingredients in recipes, planting depth for roses/tulips/daffodils.........close enough is usually good enough for me........probably why i do well enough in my particular branch of science...as nutrition is built upon close-enough...even the rda's are padded upwards of 30%........and they are guidelines rather than absolutes....with room for individual differences......with handcrafts i have lesser standards than my mother, who has been known to rip apart an entire sweater to correct a mistake in the knitting pattern......whereas i would have ignored the flaw til the end of time..........willy-nilly except for one specific venue....time.....i cannot stand to be late........and i am greatly discomforted by the lack of synchronization between clocks in my building....the phone clock, the computer clock, the wall clocks, my watch, my cell phone......i have gone to the trouble of reading the telephone user-manual......gentle readers...this was a major move, as i make it my business to never read directions........and i still cannot seem to get it in synch with everything else.........i am biding my time until mid-february, when my probationary period is up....not that i have concerns, but i did not want to make a fuss about something that no one else appears to find vexing....and appear un-necessarily ocd.....this singular attention to time is missing in most of my blood-kin....as well as in my spouse......only in my father did i see glimpses of my own particular and still minor obsession.......the story goes that my spouse's grandmother, kateryn warak weber, the one who ventured to america from roumania at age 14 to clean houses in cincinnati...was equally concerned with time........she was known to sit on the sofa at my mother-in-law's house, coat and hat in place.....asking....'are vee going to go or vaht?'...she was my kind of woman......and i am truly sorry that i never chanced to meet her.........though i must say that when i received my certificate for attending the insulin program on friday...i was not especially pleased to have it in the name of kathryn weber...(the name of my late mother-in-law) ....certainly not close enough to my name for my purposes.........i still go out of my way...after 23 years as a hyphen...to ask for corrections, clarifications.......moreso if the error is so far from the name i started out with.........ah well....... i will let you know if i manage ot stage a major syncronization next month...everyone i know poised to adjust their immediate timepieces.......or maybe i will just let this singular issue ride..........willy-nilly is a hard habit to break......