Some kids rebel against their parents in obvious ways. I chose to do so by bending the space-time continuum. Only, I didn't do it consciously, nor did I even realize I was doing it until many years later. I'll start at the beginning. My dad has often been referred to as the "late" Jim Loggins. He is very much alive. He has this nickname from years of legendarily lacking punctuality. To this day, all our relatives tell him that the annual Christmas Eve gathering is an hour earlier than it actually is, just so there is some hope of him getting there somewhere close to on time. When I was a kid, and dependent on my father to get to places, I was often late. In retrospect, of course, I never missed anything important, but you know how much more important things seem to be than they actually are when you're a kid. As a result of years of this, I developed excellent punctuality. I'm the guy that shows up to the party when you tell me it's going to start, even though you know that no one will show up until an hour or two after you tell them. To me, there is no fashionably late.
      So, after years of being precociously time-conscious, it is no surprise that I've become very interested as an adult with the nature of time, and theories of time travel. It is during adulthood, also, that I came to realize a recurring tendency in the nature of my reality. More specifically, I noticed a tendency in one aspect of my reality: clocks. I began to notice that independently operated clocks that I spent a lot of time around displayed some unusual common innacuracies. The clocks that were affected by this were my watch (which I stopped wearing 2 years ago), my alarm clock, and my car's clock. All the other clocks I am around are self updated from a network, like my computer clock, my cell phone, and the cable box. The jist of it is, all the clocks around me gain time. The creepy thing is that they seem to gain the same amount of time. My watch, car clock, and alarm clock (the last time I regularly used all 3) had all gained 45 minutes or so in about a year and a half. I had some work done on my car at the dealer in September, and they reset my car clock at that time. Since then, the car clock and my alarm clock have both gained about 14 minutes. So, either I have some weird electromagnetical affect on clocks, or I'm experiencing more time than everyone around me. Have I experienced 14 minutes more than you have since september? In an Einstein, relativistic sort of way, it could mean that I'm lazy. According to the theory of relativity, the faster you move, the less time passes for you. Does that mean that I'm so lethargic that I'm actually speeding up time? I don't think it works the other way. And I'm not that lethargic. I thought time was only supposed to fly when you are having fun.