Things learned today:

• Accidently changing your computer's date one month ahead is not a good way to start the afternoon.
• When your afternoon appears to be progressing so slowly that it never quite reaches two o'clock, you really should stop to work out what's gone wrong.
• Having a program in the background that synchronises your clock with a timeserver can cause strange things to happen.
• Especially when your clock is technically a whole month into the future.
• This is even more true when it will only adjust your clock ten minutes back at any one time.
• Maximum effect is, of course, reached when the said program runs exactly every ten minutes.

I spent my entire afternoon safely within the bracket of 1:47 to 1:57pm, concerned at how slowly the afternoon was progressing, but also extremely proud of the amount of work I was getting done within an hour of finishing lunch.

Needless to say, I was both happy and dissapointed when I was suddenly informed by another clock that it was 4:43pm and nearly time to go home.