Joke gaffe and mental exercises

The family sat down to watch Robocop last night. Yes, that is a particularly bizarre choice for us, what with the constant sweating and hyperviolence (obviously it would be fine if it was just us younguns).

At one point Simon said "He's more machine now than man." And my dad said something along the lines of 'that could be a line from The Six Million Dollar Man'.

Now, that is exactly something that I would say, it's right in my humour mill- to say something is from X when it's clearly from Star Wars. I mean Y. But I was pretty sure there was no intention of this.

I says- "Dad, you just said something that, were it done on purpose, would be REALLY funny to me. You know that line Simon just said is from Star Wars, right? Specifically The Empire Strikes Back.. no, wait, Return of the Jedi."

But, yeah, no. As expected, total accident. Bummer.

In other news, I've been getting exceptionally tired at work lately. While it's possible to attribute this to my increased frequency of gym attendance, more likely it's the case that with crackdowns and a changing workforce, I'm just not getting chatted with enough to keep me mentally stimulated.

Did you hear it takes 14 minutes on average for people to fall asleep? Yeah, sounds about right.

Considering how ridiculously easy it is to get a second wind with the slightest bit of social interaction acknowledging the fact of my existence, today I took to engaging MYSELF via mental exercises. First I concentrated on pokemon type match-ups; strengths, weaknesses, resistances, and how they stack up. Then I got to thinking about those cool feats of mental ability on t.v. when people play chess in their imaginations. So I pictured a board, figured out the check/space nomenclature (I'm guessing using the best available knowledge.. again, my own head.)- A-G, by 1-8, and then made a white move, followed by a mental flip of the table before making the mirroring move (you'd have to be insane to think I made some different move and was ACTUALLY playing against myself. I wish! That'd be really cool! And totally unverifiable!)

I made three moves and their mirror- the kings side knight to D3, the C2 pawn to C4, and the kings side bishop to C2, along with the corresponding moves on the black side of the board.

This actually helped to pass the time pretty well. I should get to work on some writing that I had previously worked on in my head so I can clear space for a new project, the enthusiasm of which would surely carry me for a few days at any rate.

Yes, I definitely need a new job!