Quirky habits

[Darkstar]

I just remembered another one. Sometimes, right before going to sleep, I will check to make sure the alarm on my clock is on and set to the correct time. Repeatedly. After the third or fourth check I just look really intensely at the clock and mentally declare that the clock is definitely set correctly and I need not look again. That usually works, though I will still sometimes have the urge to look again, I can then talk myself out of it.

I don't always do this, and I'm usually not very OCD (or would that just be OC?).

I also tend to over analyze things. Of course, I don't see it as over analyzing, but someone else might. Take this for example:

We can easily and reasonably exclude normative rules (e.g. logic) and philosophical arguments from the realm of the empirical (in the strictest sense, though we might observe the effects of following said normative standards to see if they achieve the desired result, which is technically empirical).

Is adding that extra clause quirky, or is it merely elucidating?

I also find myself doing the definition thing in reverse; that is, providing multiple answers to a question varying by multiple possible definitions of a somewhat vague word. But that might also be more elucidating than quirky. I just want to maximize mutual understanding, and providing specific definitions to slightly ambiguous words helps do that? What do you think?