Just A Second....

This article was recently posted on Yahoo......

"Wait a second. The start of next year will be delayed by circumstances beyond every one's control. Time will stand still for one second on New Year's Eve, as we ring in the New Year on that Wednesday night. As a result, you'll have an extra second to celebrate because a "Leap Second" will be added to 2008 to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks.
By international agreement, the world's timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world's irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.

The extra second, ordered by the world's nominal timekeeper, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, will be marked officially at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday in Greenwich, England, the home of what is popularly known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) – Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to the more technically inclined – the standard time for the planet.

So at precisely 23:59:60 at Greenwich, England, on New Year's Eve, there will be a one-second void before the onset of midnight and the start of the New Year. Wednesday will see the 24th Leap Second that has been needed since the practice was initiated in 1972, and will be the first in three years."

So I ask you...... What difference does a second make? Does it mean anything? What does it represent? A "lost kiss?" A "lost thought?" A "chance not taken?" "A word not spoken?"

Damn, something thought to be so minute, something so insignificant can in turn mean so much. If we lose that second where does it go? Do we we seize the moment and use it, or do we hold our breath and wait for it to disappear, never to be used again....... Just a second, can mean so much.....

Merry Christmas.......

A new GPS for me, hanging on my tree!

A beautiful Garmin Colorado 400T!

Pumpkin........

Yep, it's a pumpkin. Beautiful and simple. Just a plain, little pumpkin given to me by my 10 year old son. Given with a smile and a kiss. Yes, this is the perfect pumpkin, given out of love....