Brush you say? Daft as?

There are many times that I find my mind to be quite exceptional. It does me great credit at times. I've solved and figured out some fairly horrendous troubles now and then.

Then there are those times where my mind is tempered with daftness. An utter lack of anything concerning grey matter. Like that pink fleshy thing that rests inside my skull has suddenly developed a chronic catastrophic meltdown.

So begins my little lesson, something I realised not hours ago as I lay awake in my bed.

Take please, these three numbers, in this order.

747

Does it mean anything to you? No. I'll add some more information.

7/4/2007

Yes, it's a date.

Now I'll ask you what date it is. All you have to do is read it.

Firstly, I'll ask my cousins across the pond what the date is, then I'll ask all the English english speaking people what the date is?

Will we get the same answer from the u.s. and the uk with this combination of numbers? 7/4/2007

No. We most certainly do not.

Americans have the month first, then the day, then the year.

In the uk it is the DAY first, then the month and then the year.
Thus followed my crushing realisation that the movie Transformers I've been raving about the last few weeks wont be out untill July. Mid year.

Catastrophic shut down of anything resembling an intelect. I tell ya, I don't know how I survive at all sometimes.

Late nights, early morns, mixed with alarm clock confusion.

I have two phones. My old one, which I no longer use. My new one. They are both the same model. There's a few differences but they are to all intents and purposes identical.

I'd set my alarm on the one I am currently using, I'd also set the alrm for my old one. The reason I did this was to see if my old one worked, so I wouldn't need to leave my new one on. As people have a horrible habit of wanting to get in contact with me after I have gone to bed. Despite my many "please don't call after 9pm, I'm in bed trying to sleep" no one really pays much attention.

So, into my own hands it goes.

What I'd forgotten however, was that the time and date had reset itself on my old phone. Due to not having been used in about two years.

I'd set both alarms to go off for 5:15am.

As today is good Friday and a bank holiday I had an extra hour in bed, which was wonderful. Although I'd forgotten to change the alarm on my old phone.

So I then had my new phones alarm going off at 6:15am and the old one at 5:15am.

I turned the old one on, just as I was going to bed. Ah. As the time wasn't set, it started from 00:00. Therefore It was due to go off in just five hours and fifteen minutes. Around 1:30am, those wonderful 5 hours and fifteen minutes later.

I woke up hearing the alarm and reached up, everything was still dark, as I've grown accustomed to in my now morning ritual. I reached up and grabbed for the phone and stopped the clock. I looked at the time on it's face, sure enough it said 5:15am, so I had an extra hour of sleep, I lay down and allowed myself to drift away.

I next remember coming to from a worrying dream. I reached up and grabbed for one of the phones, I got hold of my current one and looked at the time.

1:45am

Buh. Wuh? Huh...

It then all clicked into place and I remembered that the time wasn't right on my old phone. I'd gotten confused in my nightime activities.

It was weird. I'd almost felt like a time traveller.