This digital world

Being almost winter it's dark when I come home. I step out of the bright light of the hallway into the soft glow of the coutyard lights coming in through the window. Today I walked into a disco of flashing green LED's. The microwave, the stove, the VCR, the alarm clock. Do I really need these time keeping devices? Yes. Do I appreciate having a large, battery powered analog clock on the wall. Most certainly. Do I sometimes wish all my timekeeping devices were analog? Yes, it would stop all that flashing. Without all that flashing I never would have known the power went out today. But then again do I care?