Scaring the Living Daylight Savings Time Out of You
It’s been a rough and tumble kind of week. First there was Halloween and all the constipation that comes with it. Less than 48 hours later came the midterm bloodbath. If I see one more headline claiming that this election was a vote against Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, I’m going to pull a Snickers bar out of my ass and eat it myself.
I don’t think I can take another hour minute of this.
Am I the only one who reads this “claim” in very clear black and white?
“Real Americans” can’t stand the idea of a black man or a white woman in any position of real authority or power (unless those people are vying to fill jobs that demand such qualities as “certifiably photogenic but vapid never the less”). Insert Sarah Palin’s disciple Christine O’Donnell’s name here.
Now for those of you who are suffering from Election Day hangovers or ad campaign withdrawal, not to worry. If you’re not dumbstruck enough by what is happening to our country and the direction of the economy, guess what you get to do this weekend?
You get to really return to the Dark Ages. And no, Dick Cheney is not in the building.
Ah, once again, we’re facing Daylight Savings Time.
Twice a year we go through this ridiculous exercise of springing forward or falling back to gain nothing tangible or to simply lose our minds. Reminds me a little bit of the elections. This sleep trickery/thievery makes no logical sense in the 21st century. It’s like standing in line to get into my own bathroom even though I live alone or playing the lottery without picking any numbers and finding out the winner has blown all the money without giving me any of it.
Like I said, it reminds me of the elections.
Not only does Daylight Savings Time screw up my system, it makes me feel as if I own an otherwise unattended clock shop. After racing through the house willy-nilly synchronizing the time on every single watch, clock, TV and appliance, I discover I’m two minutes off somewhere and have wasted ten more of them to get that way. I’m not saving a damn thing, including my own sanity.
On top of all this, I spend at least one week on either end of this dumb semiannual ritual either chasing after sleep or staving off hunger. It occurs to me that I do this for no reasonable purpose other than to bitch about it. Or write about.
Looks like my time is up.
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back.
We’ve got one more hour to waste that we’ll never get back.
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Comments
Enjoyed reading this a great deal. A refreshing viewpoint.
SO Rated. :)
Fall back. I'm looking forward to one more hour of my kids torturing me. Ingrates.
Blah..
rated with hugs
maybe you need another hr. of sleep!
don't worry in a few days the 'tolds ya so' crowd
will quiet down when they realize they only have themselves to blame
for the crap that comes out of congress! :)
Now go back to bed!
{[R]}
It will be darker on Sunday! lol
Yes, absolutely, the vast majority of Tea Partiers believe that if a black man is in the Oval Office he'd better be pressing the President's suit.
But FYI: This weekend ritual is to take us back to Standard Time ... or what I like to call Real Time (with or without Bill Maher). However, since the last "adjustment" to DLS, we are on Real Time 4 months of the year, and Daylight Savings ... fake time ... 8 months - Also reminds me of the election.
Do they know which American initially thought about instituting it?
Do they know what was "war time"?
Check out the "Wartime Act".
I like it.
I takes me weeks to adjust to the time changes, and for what?
Lezlie
To me clocks forward is tough. Gaining the extra hour is great since I seldom get enough sleep.
A tip from one with a large house filled with far too many clocks: I carry my cellphone around to check times as I set each clock. Unless a Verizon satellite decides to mess with my head, it works out well.
pee ess I love Snickers and now you've almost ruined them for me... heh
r
Hmm. Guess we need to get a life . . . . .
However, I can hear all the obsrtuctionism here.
Why don't you all whine is red state ink?
Einstein taught us time is not linear but curved, so I suppose this DST just has us going in circles...
I slept in, but it's not late-- I've lost my equilibrium, agghhh......
We just went back to standard time. If it weren't for daylight savings time, this would be the normal time of nightfall.
Personally, I like DST, and don't mind the week of adjustment in the Spring (the fall one doesn't require adjustment--it's easy to go to bed later and wake up later for me). However, I live close to the eastern edge of Central Time. When I lived on the western edge of Eastern Time, I felt it was unnecessary. The problem essentially is the artificiality of time zones (which is a necessity for modern travel/communications).