Morning Lineup - November 2

Does anybody have any idea of what time it is? Now that we’re finally off of that stupid Daylight Savings Time scheme, it will take most of the week just to get readjusted to the real thing.

Last night you had three choices, a) stay up an hour later, b) sleep an hour longer, or c) get up an hour earlier this morning. Since I don’t live by the clock anymore, I just did what I normally do. I went to sleep when I got tired and woke up whenever I woke up. Now it’s still the middle of the night. This is screwy.

One of the advantages that the people have who live in Arizona and Hawaii, is that they don’t have to go through this ritual twice a year. The last two remaining states to eschew the Daylight Savings stunt. Up until about three or four years ago, the half of Indiana that is in the Eastern time zone also stayed on standard time all year. So for a good part of the year, they were on the same time as the half that are in the Central time zone and went to DST. But that made too much sense, I guess. They’ve chucked it and now they also have a couple of months each year where the little kiddies are standing at the school bus stops in the dark.

All that’s left now is to wait while our inner clocks get straightened out over the next few days. So let’s get the equipment checked out and then we can sprawl out in the day room for some rehabilitation while I fix the coffee and post this Sunday’s photo art.