$@%&^#$&% ...time change.... @1!51%$!$% ....dog awake.... A pox on all politicians, State and Federal, who persist in messing up our schedules, our lives, and our very cellular metabolisms.I woke this morning at 4:48 a.m. Standard Time, which was 5:48 a.m. just yesterday, the latter normal for me on my sleep/wake schedule. I laid still for a few minutes, wondering at the time, but Bella came creeping up the bed to remind me that it was high time to get up and start the day. Bella doesn't know that nameless bureaucrats have imposed an arbitrary time schedule change, decisions based on an America engaged in the Great War, the War to end all wars, about 6 or 7 wars ago or a hundred years back depending on how you want to count. Bella doesn't care, it was simply time to get up and potty and eat and play.
The sun didn't know that it was back on standard time either. The sky was already starting to lighten shortly after I woke, and it rose at 6:54 a.m, an hour earlier than it did yesterday. The idiots we keep electing don't seem to have the same power over the sun that they do over my life. Now I'm back to driving into the eastern sun during my morning work commute, endangering cars and walking students, blinded by the glare four times yearly instead of twice.
The bee, above, doesn't know that the time has changed. It probably only knows that winter is nearby and it needs to grab whatever nectar and pollen it can, while it can, even this aging pollen from this blown blossom of a miniature rose that I know as "Little Yellow Beauty". I can't find any official record of this rose, but that's how it's labeled in the K-State Rose Garden. The g'vernment has forgotten to inform this bee and flower that the time changed. The flower is probably thankful that it doesn't even appear on a government census.
As you know, I try to avoid politics on this blog like the onset of the plague, but, I'll state here and how that I pledge my vote for any candidate, even The Donald or Bernie Sanders, if they're the sole supporter of just staying on one time. I'm a single issue voter on this one. Daylight Savings Time would actually be my preference, but I really don't care, either Time is fine. If, like me, you want this madness to stop, please visit and sign this petition to Congress, or this petition to the White House, or if you're like the rest of America, at least spend time "liking" this idea on Facebook. Politicians, being the dolts what they are and an election in their future, they'll probably listen to Facebook better than anything else. Grumbling over, soon back to your regularly scheduled program.
I couldn't agree more. Twice yearly, let the whining commence. I have heard that DST is now largely supported by the golf industry, and big retailers. The 'extra' hour of daylight allows people to shop (and finish their stupid golf games) after work in the spring.
ReplyDeleteMy own form of protest, other than the whining, is to keep my sundial set permanently at Standard Time, which is, after all, actually sun time (allowing for longitude averaging).