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    Pool noodle watch holder

    My watch has no battery. Instead it recharges using a solar cell incorporated into the dial.

    During our bitter winter here in LA we often wear long-sleeved sweaters and jackets. These prevent the watch from seeing the sun so occasionally I have to put the watch out on the patio table to soak up a few rays. This means holding it so that it faces up into the sky with its face perpendicular to the incident light. Doing thus reduces the recharge time.

    I discovered that, by happy coincidence, a pool noodle has almost the same circumference as my wrist. Two bamboo skewers hold the watch and noodle at the correct angle so the solar cell sees incident light.

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    "bitter winter" lol. I was there just weeks ago at 32° and the whole shop acted like we'd moved to Antarctica.
    Meanwhile, we're somewhat better at bitter, and winter has barely started.
    Pool noodle watch holder-20220129_094233.jpg just 6 days ago
    Pool noodle watch holder-screenshot_2022-02-04-21-54-07.png today. So cold even the opossums are playing Pool noodle watch holder-fb_img-1-.jpg

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    That photo makes it look disturbingly flesh-like...but it's a neat idea!

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    Thanks mklotz! We've added your Watch Holder to our Miscellaneous category,
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    Things are different in California...

    "cold" means air temperatures below skin temperature

    "formal dress" means no cuss words on your T-shirt

    "clean air" means air you can no longer taste

    There are four seasons...

    almost summer
    summer
    still summer
    gonna be summer soon
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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post

    During our bitter winter here in LA we often wear long-sleeved sweaters …
    Me smells a rat here or a joker giving us that really have a bitter winter a play. Any pool noodle around here would never sink right now because the water is a bit hard on top of the lakes. That is bitter cold.



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