I was lying awake in bed thinking about what to blog this week when my wife's alarm clock went off. 

My first thought was that it couldn't really be that time yet, but her clock is one of those atomic ones that periodically gets the national time signal beamed to it from Boulder, Co. It IS absolutely that time, to the millionth of a second.  Hmm, the whole country at once? Yep, pretty handy, but who pays for that? 

As a matter of fact, who pays for those weird projects like monitoring cow gas...