I'm out of time

"Smoking guns, hot to the touch..."

I just might be the most untimely person ever.

However, my cell phone is not helping. So I've gone north the past two weekends. Two weekends ago I was in Cleveland for the Cavs game (which I still have to write about), and this past weekend I was in Youngstown for RAD + Memorial Day.

Well first off, there's this really stupid option in the clock menu of my phone that allows me to take a list of cities and then have the times of all those cities on a nice list. I'm not sure when this would ever be useful, but since Columbus was on the list, I added it.

Well as you can see, for some reason the stupid city list doesn't observe daylight savings time or something crazy like that, so the city time is always an hour behind. But since I never use that menu, it's not a big deal.

Well these past weekends, it became a big deal. For some reason, everytime I go north my phone somehow gets connected to some server in Nova Scotia or something else crazy, because it changes my normal clock time ahead an hour. So instead of the main clock on my phone saying its 7:00PM, it is saying it is 8PM.

Well (this is the fourth straight paragraph I started with 'well'), this morning I woke up in Youngstown and was quite confused. I wanted to be on the road before 11:00 that way I cold make it to Columbus in time for my classes. But there aren't any clocks in my room, because I moved most of the stuff out of my room. So I look at my phone and get all kinds of confused, because the clock says it is 10:12AM, the Columbus city time says it 8:12AM, and I think it might be 9:12AM because of the stupid thing being wrong. So I hear my Mom up and walking around so I yell, "Is it 9 or 10 AM??"

She responds "It's definately not 10, so probably 9." I reply with, "Well what about 8?" ... She goes to check and it's 8. At this point I'm just confused but say fuck it and go back to sleep. I really should call Cingular and be like what is going on?!?!

But yes, I'm rather untimely. I planned to leave Youngstown around 7 or 8, so that I would get back to Columbus before 11. Well 7 rolls around and I'm still porchin it. Then 8 comes, and I finally decide to get a shower. (These times are all PM obviously) It may or may not have been the worst shower ever. The water was originally freezing, then super hot, then luke warm, then freezing, then back to luke warm. I never once in a good 35 minutes of trying got a good temperature. So by this time, I check my room to make sure I didn't forget anything, it's now 9.

Well I'm getting ready to leave, and my dad decides to tell me this story about some guys from work who went out to dinner. Well this reminded me that I hand't eaten since Chicken Parmigana around 2:30, and that I'd be driving 2 and a half hours, so I should probably eat something before I left. So I got some Stuffed Chicken heated up, and ate that. Then repeat trying to leave again around 9:50. So I go to get gas and a couple 20oz for the trip, and I'm off. But no sooner than I pull out of Speedway I decide to change the song and realize I can't find my stereo remote. So I pull into Rite Aid looking for it... no dice. So I go back home and look around for about another half-hour... still no dice. So now it's about ten til 11PM, and I leave. I get about to the end of 680 (7 miles down from my house), and I decide I really don't feel like driving, so I turn around and decide to stay in Y-town another night.

So I'm tired and try to go to bed in the big recliner, but CSI is on tv, and it's the pilot episode. I was so confused when Holly Gribbs was on... I'm like uh... she dies in the first episode. So that pushes me sleeping back until 1. Which then gets pushed back farther because Best of Conan in Chicago is on... so then after failing to sleep, I take a Benadryl and fall asleep around 3:30.

Anyway, eventually I get on the road after getting breakfast this morning at 10:56, and arrive at Paul's apartment to drop off a couple of things at EXACTLY 1:26. I swear, that drive is always 2 and a half hours.

Now for sleep so I can work in the morning, because writing this blog has just delayed my sleeping by a half-hour.

"You're out of touch... I'm out of time"