Spring

Ah, it's time once again for a Daylight Saving Time post!

Here it is: We woke up and set our clocks forward.

Yup.

Not Just One Saint

Well, here it is November. All Saints Day! That's got to be way cooler than Some Saint's Day. Time to party!

I party in celebration of the return of Drugs and Poisons, a nifty little blog about, well, drugs and poisons, which is presently discussing mouthwash. I don't generally use mouthwash myself, but I like those bits Wired does on "What's Inside" various things, and I'm likewise pleased to know that mouthwash is not poison.

If anyone in the world reads blogs but does not have an RSS reader, I would highlight this as a fine example of something they do that's good: a blog can lie quiet for months, but as soon as something new is posted, I've got it!

Now if I had been just going to look at the site every so often like an RSS-less mariner drifting on the internet seas, I would have been disappointed many times by now, and perhaps even given up.

This particular blog, which is rendered in white text on black, also makes me grateful for the ability of feed readers to make everything come out in a uniformly readable way. White on black looks cool and all, but I swear it makes me a little cross-eyed after I read it for a while.

Speaking of eyes, I also party in celebration of the fact that I finally got around to buying some new glasses. It's only been since July that I had my eyes checked to get a new prescription. And since April before then that I barely passed the vision test at the Registry of Motor Vehicles and narrowly avoided having to come back and wait in line for three hours again to get my license renewed.

I think no one would imply that I don't get stuff done. Sometimes. Eventually.

I also party in celebration of the end of Daylight Saving Time, which promises a little more light in the morning. Getting up in the dark is just no fun.

On the other hand, this also promises that soon it will be deep night by the time I get out of work, but these are the trade-offs we must make.

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Oh, Hey, Daylight Saving Time

Hello, Eastern Daylight Time. 

Wish I could say it was a pleasure to see you, but I know I'm going to be unhappy tomorrow when I have to wake up in the dimness that was 5:30 am yesterday, so my enthusiasm is tempered with preemptive grouchiness.

On the plus side, I know that I will, on the other end of the day, be pleased to get home while the sun is still up. As it gets brighter and brighter in the early mornings, it also makes sense to be up and seeing the sunlight instead of sleeping through it.

I'm not really a DST-hater: I see some personal advantages to the system in that the "still light when I get home from work" time happens earlier in the year. (See here for an overview of possible benefits/disadvantages presented in an interesting 'node' format that's kind of fun--click on a series of labeled clouds to see information on various subtopics.) 

But those first few hits of getting up at the new 6:30 are always tough. 

Hang in there, adoring followers: we'll get through this. Think of the sunny summer evenings that await!