Fear, uncertainty, doubt

For the last few years I have had my watch deliberately set fast, primarily in an effort to provide myself with a margin for error when going to the ferry.

However, I quickly adapted to this and so found that I needed to set it two minutes fast to avoid overconfidence. This escalated, and by last week I had the blasted thing five minutes fast, and found that I had adapted to it so much that I was starting to disbelieve anything with a dial. Not so bad with clocks, but potentially a big issue with speedometers.

So I have now set my watch to the correct time. By habit, I think it's five minutes fast; I then remember it's not, and start wondering what the positions of the hands actually means. I think this cultivates a healthy doubt over what time it actually is, and so far seems to result in me hurrying to places just to be on the safe side.

This is probably a Good Thing. I wonder how long it'll last.

A wasted youth?

I may be too familiar with video games.

The chap who sits next to me came off the phone a little while ago. I dimly heard him say the phrase "jumps higher than Jar-Jar" shortly before this, and immediately deduced that he was talking to his young son (who is currently off school ill) about General Grievous's bodyguard in Lego Star Wars.

I find I was correct in all details.

PLUS: apparently, if you collect all 17 bits of the model by getting the money bar full on all levels then you unlock Episode IV, and can play with Darth Vader. LadyofAstolat and I have our work cut out. Hopefully we can beat this chap and his sons - he does say that he has to shout at them and hit them occasionally for losing all his money when they die :-)