November 15, 2007
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1 It occurred to me today that all time is relative.
2 It's based on this math thing a teacher told me back in the day.
3 Back in the day.
4 Anyway, the teacher said that to a two-year old, a year is half your life.
5 To a ninety-two year old, a year is one/ninety-second of your life.
6 I remember being a kid and thinking that no, both are 365 days. I was too stupid to understand.
7 When I turned 100 last week, I thought to myself, "If a year is half my life, I still have another 100 years."
8 But then I thought about it and I think somewhere I missed a step in my math lessons. They didn't have "recovery" back in the day.
9 Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in a meeting wishing I were anywhere BUT sitting at a meeting.
10 I looked up at the clock.
11 It was 3:04 for around six years.
12 I took out a yellow legal pad, because legal pads just should be yellow.
13 I looked around for SOME goofball to play hangman with, but these people were pretty darned serious about whatever we were meetin' about.
14 I looked at the paper and I had written about three words. Not only did the clock NOT move, but it seemed the paper grew as long as an untucked dress shirt, and it seemed to be blankening the longer it grew.
15 The clock moved to 3:04. At least it seemed like it did.
16 This one guy who looked vaguely like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character LOOKED like he wanted to goof off.
17 But no luck. He started asking pertinent questions.
18 I HATE guys who ask pertinent questions at meetings.
19 Prolongs the meetings.
20 I felt that I spent half my life at that meeting.
21 But it's okay.
22 We all voted to make a horse.
23 It was unanimous.
24 The last guy to leave the meeting was Mr. Ed.
25 It's all relative.
26 Well, that's about it for today.
27 Seems like this week just flew by. Didn't I just write about Fridays?
28 Aight then.
29 Have a lovely day.
30 Peace.
~H~
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