So one of my coworkers gave me a book, I'm not bothered enough to dig it out and read the title, but the book is about this guy who is going down a highway that is supposed to bring its travelers into different periods of time. Its like time traveling only its on a high way and the guy is in a 80-something pickup truck with a talking dictionary by his side. He's going back to the battle of Marathon to help out the Greeks or whatever win it. He's bringing guns and bombs and all this stuff back but every time he tries to go back, the "time police" stop him and confiscate his stuff and send him the other way. He's been doing this for twenty or so times.

It's such a weird book. With dragons, robots, time traveling and a lot of comedy. Like Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy only older.

We were talking in my physics class on how Time is a relative thing and how the only way that we know of the passing of time is the creation/desctruction and the change between moments of "time". If time were to suddenly stop, we wouldn't know about it because there would be no change, both in our environment and in our minds. If time were to stop but we were not affected, then time wouldn't have really stopped because we're still experiencing it. We're caught in its net and there's no way to escape it. Time is passing, on earth, at exactly one second per second. Just keeping on going on.

Sometimes I want to stop time and take a deep breath and never really move on, you know? If I can isolate a moment in time. Like, I guess I want to "bottle" a feeling. Ever hear of that Croce song, "Time in a Bottle"?

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
Id save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
Ive looked around enough to know
That youre the one I want to go

I really like that song.