Daylight Saving Time

He is retired, he has no need for a watch with or without the sundial. Well maybe to see when the bar opens up.

 

I was talking to friends about time change and keeping it the same all year long. One wife of a friend said her kids would have to get up & wait for the bus when it's dark. I told her no they can change the time the kids need to be in school. Kids need to learn to get up on time anyway, it would just be a new learning experience for them.

 

Hell ya! Where you think I am now? Chicago Fire on. Up at 6am, chores done by 9. Flushed th Suzuki, washed the zodiac, cleaned kitchen and 2 loads of laundry. While most you puppies were still trying to function.

 

Around here, being further north and on the far edge of the time zone, it's dark in the morning when the kids are going to school whether DST or not. So, it doesn't really matter from that point of view, plus, when standard time comes along, we get our evenings chopped short. I hate it!

 

I hate the instant change. It’s not so bad in the Fall, but during the Spring it sux. Just leave it alone.

 

If your going to mess with daylight savings time … do it in the spring …. I want the extra hour sleep come Monday morning

 

Yeah, wait till you get to my age and see if you might rethink that!

 

There's nothing better than an afternoon nap!

 

1 pot is all i have in me, after that I am coffeeed out.

 

Nate, at my age we don't refer to them as naps--they are now called a Happy Hour!

 

Senior dinner at Golden Corral.

 

So, Apple phones and watches did their thing. Yay! That's about the only thing in my house that doesn't require my intervention.
My morning: starting from the bedroom is the desktop alarm clock (needs a Masters in Button-pushing). Next is the t-stat in the hallway. No, I don't have a "smart" t-stat, thank you very much! Then, the tv in the living room. Especially fun with the worn-out remote with sticky buttons. After that is the microwave and oven in the kitchen. Yeah, we all know about those items. Finally, my genuine windup chiming wall clock. Since it's purely mechanical, one can't simply "fall back" one hour. No, you have to advance it eleven hours, waiting for it to chime at every quarter-hour! That brings us up to a total of six items to be reset. Maybe I'll get to the four cars once it warms up a bit outside. Can we PLEASE just stay on DST?

 

Well, normally that's what I'd do, but I let it run down earlier in the week, and, knowing my propensity to forget things, I just figure it'd be easier to take care of it then and there.