Outing myself: I am a time traveler.

I am from the past.

DeLorean Time Machine

But then, so is everyone else. We are all from the past. Yesterday. Last Thursday. A year ago. Or maybe 1949, my personal time travel limit. Possibly 1948, depending on your views of fetal development. Or perhaps much, much earlier, depending on the likelihood of reincarnation.

H. G. Wellsian Time Machine

In any event, we are all literally (and I mean literally in the literal sense) traveling through time. Even more, we're doing it the hard way: we're traveling through space-time. So, not only are we having to move along a linear time line at a sixty seconds to the minute clip 24/7, but we're also covering vast distances on a spinning globe while orbiting on a ninety-three million mile radius, and at the same time whirling around the outer reaches of a stellar spiral arm of a galaxy which, itself, is traveling at an ever-accelerating cosmic velocity! Just accounting for the earth's rotation and our orbit around the sun, you're moving at over 67,000 miles per hour and at 3,600 seconds per hour, even if you're sitting in your recliner at home.

My Time Machine

We're not only time travelers, we're space travelers, to boot.

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I get it!

Again! It's happened again! I just figured out something that's had me stumped for years: the difference between wattage and amperes and voltage. (Hey, I didn't say it was a difficult concept, just that I'd always had trouble with it.)

Volts are like, uh ... you know, like how much. And amps are like, well, sort'a like how much, too. And if you, um ... take pi times the square root of the hypotenuse ... or something ... you get watts, I think. (I didn't say I could explain it, just that I figured it out. For myself. It's personal. Very private. I'm sure you understand)

OK, let's look at it like this; it's more familiar territory - -

Take two bottles of the same kind of booze. Just to avoid confusion, we'll say it's rye whiskey. One bottle is 80 proof (meaning 40% alcohol), the other is 100 proof (50% alcohol).

- Volts -

The proof amount is the voltage.

- Amps - 

How hard you're slugging
it down is the amperage.

- Watts -

And the effect it has

on you is the wattage.

Works for me.

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