Sooooo boooooored....

[jethrien]

So I'm out in the far depths of the E-Quad. Counting every single tooth on every single gear on my clock. I've been working for well over three hours, and I probably have at least another hour to go. Do you have any idea how amazingly boring it is to count gear teeth? And how hard it is to keep track of how many teeth you've counted on one gear once you're past 50?

Arrgh. So bored. Going to pass out and bonk head on table from boredom.

Comments

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

Hmm. How did the clockmakers do this, back in the day? Or did they have apprentices to do the counting?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Tediously. Or they got their apprentices to do it, yes.

It still beats the hell out of plowing in the rain, or being a seaman and not seeing land for six months, or being a scullery maid, or many of the other job options at the time.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, so I doubt they were likely to complain about the tedium. Heck, it was highly specialized technical work, so it probably paid well, to boot.

Totally different note: Jethrien posted this after I went to bed. Eight comments were posted to it by the time I got up. Does no one on Livejournal ever sleep? Or is my "real world" schedule just bizarre?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

You go to bed ridiculously early, chuckro. Face the facts. You're a square.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

I'll agree with Jen on this one...of course, the "awake noon-4 AM" schedule isn't much healthier...