[ WP ] First line `` I remember when a day was only 24 hours long . ''

`` I remember when a day was only 24 hours long, and not 25 like in here. And every single day you would beg so time to rest arrived. Oh, what an awful time. What an awful place! People in the streets hiding from the police, they would go to jail just because they did n't have enough money. The overpopulation, lack of jobs, the civil wars... it was a horrible time back on Earth. Trust me, you do n't want to hear about it.'' 
 
 `` Huh... so, what do you think about life in here, grandpa?'' 
 
 `` I love it here. It was n't easy at first... you would wake up one hour earlier in the morning every single day. Then I ended up waking up at midnight. Then at 24 o' clock, then at 23, and so on... that was before the circadian fixing medicines got cheaper. Did you know that back on Earth we would have hours of 60 minutes and 60 seconds each?'' 
 
 `` No way!'' shouted the kid. `` You mean minutes were n't 45 seconds long?'' 
 
 `` Nope. Sixty. I really do n't know why they insisted on having 81 minutes per hour. Who the hell invented this calendar?'' 
 
 `` Well, I do n't know grampa... let me look it up.'' 
 
 In an instant, the kid browsed the planet's infonet using his neural implants and gave him the answer. `` The Global government did, grampa. Six hundred and eighty seven years ago.'' 
 
 `` Wow, that was fast! Are you sure you're not an android? Let me check your neck for cables!'' 
 
 `` Grampa, stop!'' shouted the boy, giggling. 
 
 A small bark sounded at the boy's feet. The little synthetic mascot begged him to carry it. Fluffy, like a teddy bear, and it did n't drool stinky saliva. Fully mechanical, but alive with a dog connectome in its artificial brain. 
 
 The mascot - what did they call them? Fluffies? Ruffies? whatever - it kept playing fetch with the kid. The kid loved the artificial dog, and the dog loved the kid. 
 
 `` Well, if that doggy is happy, maybe I can be happy too. This body is too old for me... perhaps I will become a full cyborg after all.'' 
 
 EDIT: Fixes.
