Tick……… tick……… tick

The other day, I thought there was something wrong with my headphone connection, since I heard a kind of click from my right while sitting at my desk (which is where I hang my headphones when I’m not using them).

Turns out it’s my new watch. Its minute hand moves every 20 seconds, making a little “tick”.

I can see that it’ll take a bit of getting used to. Perhaps the hardest bit is that it doesn’t go “tick” every second, which would probably make it easier to ignore, but only every 20 seconds. (I suppose the goal is to show whether the minute has just started or is about to end, since there’s no second hand [seconds hand?].)

Sending a letter to the previous owner of a book?

I thought I’d have a look at Teeline shorthand.

To this end, I ordered a number of books, second-hand (some through Amazon, some through eBay—I got a couple of Amazon ones for €0.01! Presumably the €3.00 postage allowance that Amazon gives senders is enough for them to make a bit of money off the book.).

One of the contains the name and full address of the previous owner: a lady in Scotland.

Now I was wondering whether to send her a little letter saying “Hi, in case you’re wondering where your book ended up after you sold it to a dealer, it ended up here in Germany. Thanks!”, or something like that. But I’m not sure whether that would be too creepy.

What do you all think?