spung forward

Today is the 2nd day of the 11th week, the 11th day of the 3rd month, the 71st day of 2024 [with 288 shopping days until Christmas], and: 

• Commonwealth Day
• COVID-19 Global Pandemic Day - four years ago today, COVID-19 was declared the 249th pandemic in recorded history    We may never know the entire toll the disease took, but the current estimate is that it was over 3 million.  
• Debunking Day
• Dream Day
• Fill Our Staplers Day - I celebrated this one early since my stapler ran out last Wednesday
• Independence Day - Lithuania from the Soviet Union in 1990 [restoration]
• Johnny Appleseed Day
• Key Deer Awareness Day
• National "Eat Your Noodles" Day
• National 311 Day
• National Find Common Ground Day - this really feels more and more difficult these days
• National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day
• National Promposal Day
• National Workplace Napping Day - always the Monday after the time change
• Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day
• Ramadan
• World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue, and Film
• World Plumbing Day
• Worship of Tools Day

Quote of the day:

"Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

~  attributed to an "old Indian chief"

It used to make some sort of sense - clocks changed in April or May and moved back to normal in October.  When I was younger, I just took it for granted.

Nowadays we spend 8 months [March to November] in DST and I really think moving the clock handles twice a year makes little or no sense.  I would rather stay on Standard Time, which is more in sync with the sun, but I just want us to stop this semi-annual madness 

I'm not the only one who seems to have difficulty adjusting to the new schedule - and there is evidence to support that changing is the problem.   And those with young children, especially babies, really do not react well to the shifting of sleeping and eating patterns.   As far as pets and farm animals?  They want feeding and tending at the same time of "their" day and don't pay any attention to the hands on those clocks

At least as more clocks are connected to with WIFI  [like echoes, computers, and phones] you don't have to run around quite as much changing every clock in the house.  Of course, the oven and the microwave and that stray clock in the bedroom still have to be changed manually.  Oh, ant the car clock.  And the watches.  

I'm lucky.  I was able to sleep in on Sunday morning, but then come the night and I had a hard time convincing myself to go to bed.  The result?  Much less sleep during the night and a very rude awakening when that alarm went off on Monday morning.

So, why can't either Congress or the state legislature manage to do something?  It needs to be Congress because Federal Law [the Uniform Time Act of 1966] prohibits states from enacting permanent DST, and that is something apparently a lot of people want to do.  Apparently only two states - Arizona [with the exception of the Navajo Nation] and Hawaii - and five territories have opted out of the semi-annual madness.  

Let's just pick a time and stick to it, okay?

And here is the usual Monday morning display from Triscuit of how to be totally unconcerned with time changes and work schedules or even the fact that it is Monday