No Coffee This Morning

[madshutterbug]

Wasn't re-stocked by the weekend crew. Oh well.

Cell phone didn't update to Daylight Savings Time last night. Hooray for Cingular/AT&T... and most annoying, as I use the cell for an alarm clock quite regularly. Being the paranoid sort I am, last night I also set the hotel room clock & alarm, so I'm not behind.

But, after doing some rigamarole to make sure computer was ready for the oddness that is DST in general and this year specifically, the computer did not make the jump either. My Palm Pilot did (that was part of the rigamarole).

I dislike Daylight Savings Time.

But really, just now it's Time To Shower.

Comments

Re: I feel your pain.

[madshutterbug.livejournal.com]

Well, whichever I figured you'd give me a rise about the coffee side. :) After all, it's pretty high in your I'm Noticing This catagory right now.

You like DST, eh? Well I still like the way you write, even if there's no accounting for some things some folk like. *G*

Part of it is that we raise livestock, and they don't tell time by clocks. Position of the sun? Yup. What time the supplemental feed is supposed to be put out? Ya, shur, youbetcha. But that time is related to the sun, not some silly little box that the rancher looks at.

And as for DST doing anything for the rancher/farmer that actually plants a crop (as opposed to livestock)? Hey, Shrub, we got headlights on our tractors these days.

DST is entirely an industrial society concept. What energy savings there will be will be more related to heating/cooling buildings than to commuting costs, or agricultural production costs. One of the most amusing pieces of idiocy regarding DST is that during the Second World War, Germany went on permanent DST to be ahead of the Brits. Not to be outdone, the Brits went on DDST: Double Daylight Savings Time.

Re: I feel your pain.

[firesmith.livejournal.com]

It's not so much as I like it, it's that I've been waking up early anyway. It won't affect me that much as all, as far as sleep goes.