Posted on 03/11/2017 10:49:33 AM PST by SamAdams76
Everything that is good is more expensive than everything that is not so good, but usually good enough. If you can learn to live with good enough, you can save a lot of money and eventually buy the stuff that is very good.
It is freezing cold here in the Northeast. Whatever happened to that much-ballyhooed "global warming" we have been hearing so much about from the leftist loonies? Last weekend was pretty cold too. I'm talking near zero at night and barely 20 during the day. Now there is talk of a "mega-blizzard" for Tuesday and everybody is at the supermarket clearing the shelves of brussels sprouts, eggs, frozen pizzas and Siggi's 4% whole milk yogurt. People are scurrying up and down the aisles piling their carts high with various foodstuffs.
I was in southern Florida a few weeks ago and it's very warm down there. I only came back because I had to work. I was driving through the Everglades and saw lots of alligators and mosquitoes. Mosquitoes in February? Who knew. The beaches were warm and sandy though. No mosquitoes there. Got lots of seashells to bring back and some of them broke.
Listening to 70s station on the satellite radio. Some of the stuff we used to laugh about back in the day sounds good today. Those Bee Gees were not quite so bad as we made them out to be at the time. "Sister Golden Hair" by America sounds pretty good this morning. Remember the summer of 1975? Jaws was the big movie. People actually did not want to swim in the water because of it. Gerald Ford was the president. Elton John was still writing rock and roll songs and nobody had to know about his weird sexual habits. They just listened to the music. Some of us males wore platform shoes though and dressed funny in polyester. Hey, it was the style at the time. What can I say.
Now Donald Trump sits in the White House? Who would have thought? What if I could go back in time to say, 1985, and tell people that Donald Trump would someday be our president? Some people would be amazed. Others would walk away from me rather quickly. Speaking for myself, I'm very happy that Donald Trump is sitting in the White House. Imagine if it was scary Hillary? I still cannot believe the bullet that we dodged.
For some strange reason, I had never read "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein until now. I'm about 150 pages into it (the unabridged edition) and I can't believe I had not discovered that book before. Anyway, it's a good read and I can't wait to see how Michael Valentine Smith turns out on earth after having been raised by Martians and having acquired skills like staying underwater for hours at a time and making people disappear. Sounds crazy but makes more sense if you read the book.
Today is the day of Daylight Savings time. A lot of grumpy old people who are too lazy to get off their butts and change clocks a couple times a year have a major bug up their butt about this whole clock-changing thing. For me, having more daylight at the end of the day is a good thing. So what if we are stealing an hour of daylight in the morning? Most people are sleeping in the morning or commuting to work. Much better to have that hour of daylight at the end of the day where we can go into the yard with a beer and toss a steak on the grill with the sunshine still upon us. If anything, we should make it so that we have daylight until 10PM in the summer months. So what if the sun doesn't rise until 7AM as a result? Who needs the sun to rise at 5am when we are sleeping or heading to work.
Of course, I'm going to have to wait until the snow melts before I can get to my grill.
BTW, we all knew that about Elton Bobbie. 8>)
I so agree with you and look forward to moving the clocks ahead tonight. I love the longer evenings, even more so being unwell. Maybe we speak for all the night owls and not for the morning people. I procrastinate a lot these days and by the time I finally get the mental courage to get out, it’s cold and dark. At that point, I just stay in. It wouldn’t be half as discouraging if it was just cold and light. I’ll take warm and light even more so! Can’t wait for warmer weather.
They would have believed you in Biff Tannen's alt 1985. ;)
This way, as the day progresses and I glance at the clock, I subliminally "time" my body cycle.
At least it sounds like an intellectual reply to a stupid practice.
Someone please explain to me how the cows are so much better off practicing "daylight savings time" ...
I worked for a restaurant that was open 24 hours and we had to note the change early in the morning. I remember when we “lost an hour.” Yes, we got paid the same. The Fall is confusing too.
Yeah, but why take my hour at 2am on Sunday morning? Why not at 3pm Friday afternoon?
We need to leave it as longer days all year round.
Good summary. Too often we take stuff too seriously...
Just think, while peole were listening to Dan Ingraham play “Sister Golden Hair” on 77 WABC in the summer of 1975, a platform-shoe-wearing young lawyer named Hillary Diane Rodham had just been hired to teach law at the University of Arkansas, a job she sought to be near her lover prior to their marriage in October.
How strangely the winds of fate blow!
Speaking of weird stuff...have you ever spotted the Renegage from Red Hook riding his three-wheeler around “the mean streets of Manhattan”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IRoI_ps5hc
Q. Do you know how daylight savings time started?
A. One day, Chuck Norris hit the snooze button.....
Daylight savings time is another wasteful government regulation. It not only does not save energy, as the stated reason for it, but it costs energy. And, it costs business money to implement it and manage it. Think of all the computer programs that have to take it into account, and now the consumer electronics that have to program for it. In return it produces nothing - well except for an increased number of car and other accidents.
Just pick a time, either standard or daylight savings, and leave it alone all year.
"only white man would cut bottom off blanket, sew it on top, and call it a longer blanket"
If you are working an eight hour day I suppose it does not make much difference and you can adjust easily to the change and it is more convenient to have that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day.
However more and more people like myself are stuck in a 12 hour shift rotation. We work 12 hour nights this week and 12 hour days next week.
Daylight Savings Time means nightshirt works one less hour and dayshift loses an hour of sleep. Depending on your employer night shift may also lose an hour of pay. But regardless it messes with your already messed up sleep cycle.
In my estimation it is just another intrusion of government where is has no authority.
Daylight Savings Time is asinine. You will never convince me otherwise.It has been a pain for 50 years of my life.
We don’t need time zones period. We should all just set our clocks to GMT permanently and be done with it. One time, all the time, all over the world.
I hate DST because when things are working right for me, I can get out first thing in the morning for a surf, a bike ride, a hike, or whatever, and then by the time I get to work at 9 or so, I feel like I’ve already had a great day. Right now is the time of year it’s just opening up enough for me to do that, and then, bam! I’m set back another hour and my window won’t open for another couple of months, soon after that the days are already getting shorter again.
I also hate it because I wake up by daylight, not an alarm clock, so I’m just an hour behind where I would otherwise be all day after that.
But I understand, early birds like standard time, and night owls like DST, and there are more night owls than early birds, so that’s where we are. But I don’t have to like it!
Indians making fun of white man don’t carry much weight when white man took over the world.
Actually they do, Section 8.5 of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures".
I for one look forward to the extra daylight in the evening.
I am all for splitting the difference. Change it a 1/2 hour and leave it alone. Now I live in SoCal so what might work here may not work where you are at.
My uncle was a bachelor dairy farmer. He hated daylight savings time, but had a simple solution for it. He simply ignored it (and so did his cows). He explained: "It was no problem. You simply have to remember that the feed store closes an hour earlier in the summer."
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