Time

I was fiddling with blog settings as I'm sure most bloggers do and I noticed that the 'time' settings were much more ... interesting than the types of drop down fields I've met before.

I'm on UK or Ireland time, I usually select Dublin as it's near enough a direct line south and something in my head tells me this is important.

On the way through the options, starting at the 'Pacific' time I had been automatically assigned to, I traversed 'Central Time'. This stopped me for a minute. I don't like the thought that, for years now, I've been living to the beat of an off-centre drum. Time had seemed pretty central to me for a while now.

What is it the centre of? I'm going to guess (I usually hold my own in conversations by cunning, gut instinct and guess work) that it's the central area of America. If I allowed myself to think about it any more I'd just get too in depth and...

Woah!

There's 'Mountain Time'. This is awesome. I want to live on or in mountain time. This time is old time. From the time when times were men. Fashioned in the core of our world in intense pressure, when a volcano erupts the time escapes and animals and trees that grow around are accelerated through time at a horrific rate withering and dying like they've been touched by some fiery substance. Lava is just one of those optical illusions the brain plays to help you cope with something you can't understand (like seeing EVERYTHING upside down in reality).

Or maybe mountain time is time as kept by the mountains? If so we're probably just past midnight on the 1st of the 1st year one. Mountains can't possible comprehend time like we do! They're huge, mountainous and aloof to our constant fretting against the untouchable bars of time. They're immune, lords over time.

Scientists claim that mountains will be brought low at some point by time but pics or it didn't happen to be honest. I bet it's a rumour spread by time's allies (Casio, Oil of Olay and the like).

Anyway I've set my time to 'Dublin' now and the momentary excitement has fled. The clock is ticking quite normally and I have to say I'm a little disappointed to be back to 'normal' time.