Odd SPOT watch behavior

A weird experience last night: while I was at Elder-Beerman, my watch went totally dead. It spontaneously revived about 15 minutes later. A couple of folks on SPOTstop have reported the same problem, but no consensus on a cause yet. It only seems to affect the Fossil Abacus watch, which I bought in large part because of its $129 price– the next-closest watch is $50 more, but maybe they spent that $50 on better ESD shielding. At this rate, the watch won’t survive long enough for Thomas to inherit it when I die.
And, as long as I’m pointing out the inexplicable: for some reason, I don’t get weather for any city other than Toledo, even though I have New Orleans and Seattle listed as cities for which I want weather. The weather updates for Toledo arrive like they should (and boy, is it good to know that it’s 10° outside with a stiff wind), so this may just be a temporary glitch. Omar Shahine of Microsoft has a good review of MSN Direct’s performance in the Bay Area; it’s worth a read too.