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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.
It was just starting to be light when I have to get up every day (6 AM) and now political idiots are going to force me to get up in the dark again.
It's always dark when I go to sleep. Why must I deal with such idiocy?
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Not for those of us in sane place. For us tomorrow is the day all the live sports move an hour earlier, and the in-laws move an hour further away.
We might not need time zones, be we sure as hell shouldn’t run on GMT, that would be dumb. I don’t want it to be 11PM yesterday when my alarm goes off at 6AM.
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I intend to live on “slow time” or “normal time” except when
I have an appointment or something. My body just gets used to the time change; then wham it’s time to do it again.
I’ve always been ahead of the curve. I started hating Government Savings Time when I was 12 years old which coincidentally is when it began in CO in my lifetime.
It was nearly 80 here (Pittsburgh PA) several days ago. Now below 15 degrees.
All that I know is this: The wife and I don’t really care which it is, but leave the damn time one way or the other. This flopping back and forth is insane. At some point in the year one goes to bed when it is dark and gets up when it is dark, anyway.
He was right!!!!
The election of Donald Trump and the very warm (coastal Virginia) winter kept me from my usual winter funk or, as they call it now, Seasonal Affective Disorder.
I like the later sunset too but I almost wish they would keep summer hours and add the “extra” daylight to the winter months. Leaving for work in darkness is not a problem but returning home when it’s already dark is a real bummer.
I’m glad the cell phones automatically reset the time and only wish my VCR knew it was not 12:00-12:00-12:00-12:00... ;)
Spring forward or fall back. Doesn’t matter to the kitties who demand I get up and fix them breakfast at the crack of dawn.
This grumpy old man thinks it reeks to do this foolishness twice a year. For what good reason. Make DLST STANDARD and let it ride. The winter commute takes place in the dark anyway almost all the time and a lot of people who actually work 10 hours or more a day go all week without even seeing their house in daylight.
The whole damn thing is another gubmit program that forces us to do the bidding of people who think they know what is good for us.
Make DLST standard and let it go at that.
Now that is when Shoes were Good looking not these long pointy toed clown costume things people walk around in these days that look like they belong with a zoot suit.
Cats and canines don’t care so long as they get their food.
That would be nice! lol
I read on FR a few months ago that California was thinking of going off DST which might lead to more states following, but apparently nothing came of it.
Hey, why don't we roll up the calendar by one month! Let's consider it April!!! That makes exactly the same sense.
White man build big fire, must stand far away.
Indian build small fire - stand close.
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Both freeze butts off.
This is a really warm and sweet post. Making me smile. Speaking of warm, it was 85 here today. Went scooter and biking with the kids. Ok, we’ll change the clocks, just for you. No prob. And I thought Sister Golden Hair surprise was written about me. Lol.
Prayers up for your healing, Holly.
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