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I went to go play basketball yesterday after work. When I got to the court, no one else from the office had showed up get, but I decided to wait until about 6PM or so to give people time to show up. There was a soccer game being played in the field adjacent to the courts, and I watched that while I waited. At one point, this monster kid who was about a foot taller than all the other players (this looked like it was supposed to be an under-12 league, perhaps), kicked the ball, and it sailed over the top goalpost, and bounced over to me. When I picked it up and threw it to the goalie (who said thank you, by the way. Good polite kid.), I felt this flopping weight against my left wrist.

I looked down, and sure enough, my watch band had torn again. There's this little leather loop at the top and bottom of the watch face that holds it onto the strap. Well, the little thing ripped through the stitching, and is quite unrepairably broken.

Crap.

At least the last two watches I've had have broken in exactly the same way. It's gotten to the point where I'm trying to think if there's a viable alternative to wearing a wristwatch for someone as happily time-obsessed as I am.

I thought about getting a pocketwatch the last time I went shopping for a watch. I saw one that had this really nice reddish wood for the face that I really liked. However, I can't stop thinking of pocketwatches as being a little pretentious (I'm not sure why). Also, I like just being able to look at my wrist when I want to know what time it is. Having to wiggle around in my seat to get into my pocket just isn't right. I mean, people stopped wearing pocketwatches for a reason, right? I think I may have hit on two of them...

Then I considered going the true geek route and getting a pager, since most pagers show the date and time on them when there isn't a message scrolling across the display. However, again there's the slightly inconvenient factor, and I really like to be able to tell what time it is when I wake up in the middle of the night. Fumbling for a pager at oh-dark-thirty is too clumsy.

The real irritating point in all this is that I don't like metal watch bands, which would probably get rid of this problem of the little connectors constantly tearing.

Ugh. Well, this was quite a bit more boring than I thought it'd be... sorry!