diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c7fa417..7a612a0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -163,6 +163,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "slab",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "getrandom"
+version = "0.1.14"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7abc8dd8451921606d809ba32e95b6111925cd2906060d2dcc29c070220503eb"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+ "wasi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hermit-abi"
 version = "0.1.13"
@@ -362,6 +373,12 @@ version = "0.3.17"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "05da548ad6865900e60eaba7f589cc0783590a92e940c26953ff81ddbab2d677"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ppv-lite86"
+version = "0.2.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "237a5ed80e274dbc66f86bd59c1e25edc039660be53194b5fe0a482e0f2612ea"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro-hack"
 version = "0.5.16"
@@ -392,6 +409,47 @@ dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rand"
+version = "0.7.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6a6b1679d49b24bbfe0c803429aa1874472f50d9b363131f0e89fc356b544d03"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom",
+ "libc",
+ "rand_chacha",
+ "rand_core",
+ "rand_hc",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rand_chacha"
+version = "0.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f4c8ed856279c9737206bf725bf36935d8666ead7aa69b52be55af369d193402"
+dependencies = [
+ "ppv-lite86",
+ "rand_core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rand_core"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "90bde5296fc891b0cef12a6d03ddccc162ce7b2aff54160af9338f8d40df6d19"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rand_hc"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ca3129af7b92a17112d59ad498c6f81eaf463253766b90396d39ea7a39d6613c"
+dependencies = [
+ "rand_core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "redox_syscall"
 version = "0.1.56"
@@ -404,8 +462,10 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "dbus",
  "dbus-tokio",
+ "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "tokio",
+ "uuid",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -419,6 +479,20 @@ name = "serde"
 version = "1.0.110"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "99e7b308464d16b56eba9964e4972a3eee817760ab60d88c3f86e1fecb08204c"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde_derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "serde_derive"
+version = "1.0.110"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "818fbf6bfa9a42d3bfcaca148547aa00c7b915bec71d1757aa2d44ca68771984"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_json"
@@ -511,6 +585,21 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "826e7639553986605ec5979c7dd957c7895e93eabed50ab2ffa7f6128a75097c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uuid"
+version = "0.8.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9fde2f6a4bea1d6e007c4ad38c6839fa71cbb63b6dbf5b595aa38dc9b1093c11"
+dependencies = [
+ "rand",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wasi"
+version = "0.9.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cccddf32554fecc6acb585f82a32a72e28b48f8c4c1883ddfeeeaa96f7d8e519"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi"
 version = "0.2.8"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c50ce7e..dcf86c7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 
 [dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["full"] }
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
+
+uuid = { version = "0.8", features = [ "v4" ] }
+
+tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["full"] }
 dbus-tokio = "0.5"
 dbus = "0.8"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 78797b0..94390f9 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
-use dbus::nonblock::Proxy;
-use dbus_tokio::connection;
-use std::time::Duration;
+pub mod tile;
+pub mod tiles;
+
+use dbus_tokio::connection::new_session_sync;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use tile::Tile;
 use tokio;
+use tokio::sync::mpsc::channel;
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     // We can't do much until we have a D-Bus connection so just do it synchronously
-    let (resource, conn) = connection::new_session_sync()?;
+    let (resource, conn) = new_session_sync()?;
 
     // Now start listening on our D-Bus connection
     tokio::spawn(async {
@@ -14,5 +18,13 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
         panic!("Lost connection to D-Bus: {}", err);
     });
 
-    Ok(())
+    let (sender, receiver) = channel(1024);
+
+    let tiles: Vec<Arc<dyn Tile>> = vec![Arc::new(tiles::Time::new(0, sender.clone()))];
+
+    for tile in tiles {
+        tile.spawn();
+    }
+
+    loop {}
 }
diff --git a/src/tile.rs b/src/tile.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..50ea1ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tile.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+use serde::Serialize;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
+
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Serialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
+pub enum Alignment {
+    Left,
+    Center,
+    Right,
+}
+
+impl Default for Alignment {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::Center
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Serialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
+pub enum Markup {
+    None,
+    Pango,
+}
+
+impl Default for Markup {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::None
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Default)]
+pub struct Block {
+    full_text: Box<str>,
+    short_text: Option<Box<str>>,
+    color: Option<Box<str>>,
+    #[serde(rename = "background")]
+    background_color: Option<Box<str>>,
+    #[serde(rename = "border")]
+    border_color: Option<Box<str>>,
+    border_top: Option<u32>,
+    border_right: Option<u32>,
+    border_bottom: Option<u32>,
+    border_left: Option<u32>,
+    min_width: Option<u32>,
+    align: Option<Alignment>,
+    name: Box<str>,
+    instance: Box<str>,
+    urgent: Option<bool>,
+    separator: Option<bool>,
+    separator_block_width: Option<u32>,
+    markup: Option<Markup>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct TileData {
+    sender_id: usize,
+    block: Block,
+}
+
+pub trait Tile: Send {
+    fn spawn(self: Arc<Self>) -> JoinHandle<()>;
+}
diff --git a/src/tiles/mod.rs b/src/tiles/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ae628f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tiles/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pub mod time;
+pub use time::Time;
diff --git a/src/tiles/time.rs b/src/tiles/time.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d298722
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tiles/time.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+use crate::tile::{Block, Tile, TileData};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender;
+use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
+use tokio::time;
+use uuid::Uuid;
+
+pub struct Time {
+    sender_id: usize,
+    sender: Sender<TileData>,
+    instance: Box<str>,
+}
+
+impl Time {
+    pub fn new(sender_id: usize, sender: Sender<TileData>) -> Time {
+        let instance = Uuid::new_v4().to_string().into_boxed_str();
+        Time {
+            sender_id,
+            sender,
+            instance,
+        }
+    }
+
+    async fn run(&self) {}
+}
+
+impl Tile for Time {
+    fn spawn(self: Arc<Self>) -> JoinHandle<()> {
+        tokio::spawn(async {
+            let instance = self;
+            instance.run().await
+        })
+    }
+}