Last night I came home from hacking society to the great clock disaster.

I had this nice wall clock that my parents gave me a few years ago. It's large and wooden and winding. It was nice and comforting to see it ticking away. Sometime last night while I was gone the hook holding it up decided to give up. The clock fell down, ripped my thermostat off the wall and fell on the floor. Luckily the mercury from the thermostat stayed up on a shelf with the broken glass and so the dogs didn't get into it. The clock is pretty much a loss. It's cracked all around the top of the case and the hinges on the glass part are ripped out. I guess it could have been worse.