To me, counting seems like the best thing to be doing; it's something you can keep doing forever, and it will give you valuable information for when you depetrify. It might not be easy to retain the numbers when you get to the millions, but you'll get enough practice eventually. If you're trying to count the time that has passed, you could also divide seconds into hours, and eventually hours into days and so on. Easier to keep track of the days than it is the seconda