Time waits for no one

I’m slowing getting into watching Mr. Show. I just wished I had caught it sooner.

… Probably the most interesting website I’ve found is a time and date counter. It can track how long it is until, or has passed, since a certain point in time.

Now I haven’t really had anything to look forward to, but I did figure out how long I’ve been alive in forms of days, hours, months, minutes and seconds. When you only look at things in a larger scale, you miss all the smaller things.

So I discovered, with a little math, I’ll be alive for 1 billion seconds on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 5:04:40 p.m.

And in case you are wondering, it is 11,574 days from the day you are born – 31 years, eight months and approximately seven days. And if you know what time you are born, add one hour, 46 minutes and 40 seconds to the time.

… So I have a stupid problem. I’ve allowed my vacation time to hit the ceiling and for a paycheck, couldn’t accrue anymore. It was a combination of good and bad planning.

What I’m trying to do is save up all the vacation time I can in case there is another round of layoffs and I get as much as I possibly can.

However, I didn’t think clearly. I’ve capped at 120 hours and can’t take any more time off until the end of September. I just took a small vacation and killed out 16 hours, but at the rate I’m going now, I’ll be capped again around that time.

I hope I will be taking some extra time off then, but there are no promises.

… The Olympics are about to end and they have been amazing to watch. Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals and Usain Bolt winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes in world record time and relative ease.

There are also some odd moments: a wrestler refusing his bronze medal and a Cuban taekwondo fighter kicking the official of his match after he was disqualified for taking too much injury time. Why it is no laughing matter, I will say the World Taekwondo Federation now has a new use of their acronym, WTF.

I had the day off of work more than two weeks ago and was able to watch the Opening Ceremonies in peace. I thought it was a wonderful show; then the truths came out. The little girl singing was a Milli Vanilli; the actual girl I guess didn’t meet the standards of the Chinese. There were fake fireworks, which I kind of suspected.

But there was also a story about a dancer that was hurt days before the opening ceremony. She fell 10 feet off a moving platform and of course the Chinese are not releasing any information about the true condition of the dancer while there are reports she may be paralyzed.

I will say London has a lot to do in order to top what the Chinese did to light the flame. But it still doesn’t match the archer from the 1992 Barcelona Games lighting the flame. After all, that guy had one shot to do that.

And maybe, who knows, I can get a handball team going and I could be there. Doubtful, but there are only 1,434 days to go to get it done.