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The Rambling Insomniac
Tom is a 25+ year resident of Germantown and the surrounding community. He currently lives in Hubertus with his wife and two small kids on a hobby farm near Bark Lake. Tom's blog will likely not save the world, but hopefully, you'll get some enjoyment from his ramblings.
Daylight Savings
By Tom White
Sunday, Nov 4 2007, 05:15 AM
If you are reading this on Sunday morning, hopefully you remembered to turn your clocks back one hour already, as today is when Daylight Savings Time begins. A couple of observations on this: First off, what’s the story with the whole “It’s Daylight Savings, you better change the batteries in your smoke alarms” deal? Not sure about you, but any smoke alarm I’ve ever owned drives me crazy beeping at me when the batteries need to be replaced. Maybe I take that for granted, but using a date to remind me to do something I’ll be reminded of anyway doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. It’s sort of like, “Gee, Winter Solstice starts today, I better go change all the light bulbs in my house”. Why would I do something so unnecessary!? Maybe the battery companies are somehow in cahoots with the Daylight Savings Time Agency (is there even a Daylight Savings Time Agency?).
Next, I have to admit I struggle with the “math” related to daylight savings. Now keep in mind, math has always been a strong suit for me, but my brain just seems to go haywire when it comes to computing Daylight Savings times. Yeah, yeah “spring forward, fall back”….I get it. It’s envisioning the effect of this on the following days events that gets me all screwed up. When planning a round of golf for this Sunday morning, my friend Dave quickly computed “Well, at least it’ll be a little warmer at 9am in the morning because of Daylight Savings”. WTH? I’m still trying to figure that one out!
Lastly, I’m not a big fan of this all time changing stuff happening at 2am. People get so excited and shout with glee “Oh, we get an extra hour of sleep tonight!” Who cares? I loathe sleep. It’s a waste of precious life if you ask me. Now stick with me on this one…..say for example, instead of setting our clocks back at 2am, we did it at 2pm. So, somewhere in the middle the third quarter of the Packer game today, suddenly it’s only 1 o’clock! The game would be over by 2 o’clock, and the Patriots/Colts game wouldn’t even start for another hour. We’d have an entire “extra” hour smack dab in the middle of the day when we could really use it! Just think of all the things you could do with that hour! Clean the gutters, take a nap, play with the kids, take a walk, bake a pie, change the stupid batteries in your smoke alarms, etc. Then again, this theory probably wouldn’t work real well when we “spring forward” in spring.
I probably sound real critical about the whole Daylight Savings issue. I’m really not. I’m just a little grumpy because I didn’t sleep real well last night. I’d go back to bed right now, but honestly, it would be too much work for my brain to figure out what time it really is right now.
G’Night G’Town!
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
~ Pink Floyd
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