It is scientifically proven that if you sit and stare at a clock, time will slow down. However, when you play games or are sleeping time speeds up. I’m not kidding! How many times have you sat down to play a game for just a few minutes and then realize that you had just played 4 hours of Guitar Heroes while you left your grandmother in the car outside. Far too often. Sleeping is the same. You lay down exhausted looking forward to some sweet sleep. As your eyes close the alarm starts blaring that it’s time to get up and get ready for another day of working for a living.
Time is tricksy.
Even as I ramble on with this post time speeds up. It would probably help if I could type more than 3.258 words a minute. People who hunt and peek type crack me up. I know it is probably not their fault for not having a keyboard shoved into their mother’s uterus when they are an embryo, but I still laugh when I see them struggling away. The only time I don’t laugh is when they are holding me up from doing some computer work on their system. P L E A S E M O V E O U T O F M Y W A Y ! I swear I can type cat for you! PROMISE.
But now that I think about it (yay time is going by), the first time I REALLY learned to type was playing a video game. I did take a “keyboarding” class in high school and it sucked. We had to memorize the keys on the keyboard and recite them to our teacher. LAME-O. We also had some raggedy-ass DOS based program that would time how many words we could type a minute. I failed that thing so much I think I gave up. Thank GOD my mother was a teacher in the school system. Oh, KK did ok. He doesn’t need to have gotten any more than 10 words a minute.
The game where I HAD to learn to type was Ultima Online. Maybe that is why I look so fondly on the game now. It was the only one of its kind in the day. It was a game where you played with thousands of people so you had to be able to tell them not to kill you while you were mining. (FYI even when you can tell them not to kill you you will be destroyed all the same.) They should have just titled that game “Ultima Online: Keyboard Instructor”. If my teacher would have given me UO to help learn how to type, I would have worn the paint off those keys. Cybering in class would have been such a turn on.
Why did I just think of Willowmane? Scary.
Time to wrap this up. Hope you all have a great weekend. See you online or in person. Muhahahahahahaha
KK