Spot on, DAR. If you're licensed, you're licensed and you're arguably safer at 70 hours having recently passed than at 270 but having only feetingly met an instructor at any point in the past few years.
And I take it all back about pebbles, if you're getting home every time then they must work. I've got an anti-tiger pebble like that, I've been carrying it around for over twenty years and I've never once been attacked by a tiger.