Random Thursday stuff

• So the trainer job was open at work again and I applied for it. Did a training presentation on flight times and how to calculate them with time zone changes. Someone else got the job. In related news, I discovered this place and I'm talking with them next week.
• The presentation led me to research time zones at Wikipedia. Time zones weren't really necessary until train travel came along. Until then time was kept locally and it really didn't matter. That led to this:

Timekeeping on the American railroads in the mid nineteenth century was somewhat confused. Each railroad used its own standard time, usually based on the local time of its headquarters or most important terminus, and the railroad's train schedules were published using its own time. Some major railroad junctions served by several different railroads had a separate clock for each railroad, each showing a different time; the main station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for example, kept six different times. The confusion for travelers making a long journey involving several changes of train can be imagined.

• Other interesting thing (and pretty good bar bet), how many time zones do you think there are? It takes 24 hours for the earth to rotate (of course) so you'd think there are 24 of them. Not so. There are thirty-nine of them. That's because there are several time zones that are 30 minutes different than the rest. For instance, Newfoundland is 2 1/2 hours ahead of us.
• The above might have been interesting to Jodi and no one else but me.
• Our sweet kitten has become much more vocal lately. He's also taken to talking to himself. He's starting to act a bit like...Roxane. Warms my heart.
• This brings back some childhood memories. And yes, kids, that's really what computer games sounded like back then.
• That's it!