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The fallacy about daylight savings time is that anything is actually saved.

The time change is basically to extend after work hours for those who still have a job.

OK in the summer but to have it now, is just dopey.

It is 609AM here and it is still pitch black out. No sky at all.

I am a morning person so I am left out of it.

We are now waiting for Marcus' walk because it is too dark for the humans. I suspect he likes the unlit walk more than I do but it is us at the other end of the leash.

This is another congressional folly. Left to the hands of the amateur executives, we get a mish mash.

This will last another week. Dark into and out of the gym. Dark walking hours for the dog.

Dark, dark, dark.

End of rant.

Labels: daylight

LOSING IT

I do not use an alarm clock.

I wake up at 3 AM pretty much automatically.

Until the last week, that is.

All week, I was up late for the gym which needs a drive out at 4:17 AM. Yes. I am that exact.

I made it every day I woke up late it is hectic to do so. A push.

Today, a week after DST started, I woke up an hour late at 4 AM.

I just threw in the towel. No gym.

I am not going through the wrench of slamming everything into 20 minutes and I am not going to get there late.

I am just going to relax, accept the inevitable and have a nice start to the day.

Well, I did that. But I still missed a half hour of bike.

I can handle it.

Maybe I also need a gym vacation. I used to take one, as prescribed by a trainer I paid, every ten weeks. Necessary for the body to catch up with itself.

I realize that I have not had a gym break since last August when I went to San Diego for four days. that was seven months ago.

Maybe this is the week to just drop the gym, sit in my shorts and have a leisurely morning and rest. Get back to the action next Monday.

I will meditate about this.

I am happy that I didn't get on my own case about this. In the past, I would have done so. Good.

Labels: daylight, gym, life

TOO LITTLE TO BE SAVED

There isn't enough light to go around let alone be saved.

We have the clocks set ahead and it is not an improvement.

I had to wait a half hour to start my 6AM bike ride today. It was pitch black at 6. Even I am not going to risk going out in that little light.

Now we are turning to the dog-walk after dinner rather than before.

We will have to hustle to get back before the sun is too far down to see our way home.

Well, not that bad.

But it is still annoying.

I don't know what they were thinking. Probably not.

There are arguments on both sides of the energy saving question.

We will adjust.

In two weeks this won't even be a blip on the curve.

But right now, I am in the middle of explaining to an Airedale why we are waiting for his walk, when we will go and what happens to his routine 'bone' after we have dinner.

But we go through this one every year.

There is no trouble in the fall when we take our walk earlier and get the bone right after dinner.

Supper is always the same time. No problem there.

He is not buying it.

I don't either.

Would someone explain it for me?

Labels: bicycle, daylight, environment

IN THE DARK

There is no consensus that daylight savings saves anything including fuel, electric, or people's sanity.

Moving it ahead is just plain stupid.

I have made the first hurdle. I was able to get up at the 'correct time'—330 AM. But I will pay later on.

We lost the hour but had company so I was up late and then had to spring forward.

As it happens, it will be too dark for me to ride the bike at 6 AM. I will have to dance for 30-45 minutes.

I have lights on the bike but there are limits. Total darkness is too dangerous. Can't see the roadway.

Then there are the dog-walks to work around.

The sun won't go behind the mountain (our walking signal as we don't do direct sun) until 515 so do I make dinner then walk before we eat or do we eat early and then walk.

There is simply not enough daylight to save!.

It is too fucking early for the whole thing.

Incidentally, my Mac flipped right over to the right time this morning. How did your PC do?

Heh heh.

Labels: daylight

READY

Mac has issued its software for the new daylight saving times (March 11 to November 4) so my computer, at least, will be ready.

I don't know what other devices I have with DST programmed; perhaps my watch but I don't think so.

Everyone expects a mess

Countdown to Confusion

but I suspect something more on the scale of the millennial anticlimax.

We will see.

In the meantime get ready for darker mornings (ugh--we are at the dark end of this time zone) and lighter evenings.

I don't really get the purpose as energy saving as we will keep our morning power on longer and evening shorter but I haven't really thought it through, nor will I.

It is beyond my control.

Labels: daylight, software