Comments on: Spring forward… set your clocks tonight!

By: Leota Eroman

Leota Eroman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:35:48 +0000

What a amazing design you have. your blog articles are pretty informative too! Many thanks

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:56:44 +0000

Only the government would think you could cut 1 foot off the end of a blanket, sew it on the other, and think you have a longer blanket with better warming properties.

By: Laura@OurHouseOfJoyfulNoise

Laura@OurHouseOfJoyfulNoise — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:56:39 +0000

You know, you may be on to something here. Yes, sometimes I do feel blue. But other times, I find I am biting people’s heads off. ; ) I’ve even been told around that time of day, “Gees, you don’t have to bite my head off.” Thankfully though, that time of day doesn’t last too long. Or else we’d have lots of people, with no heads around here, yes?

By: Teri

Teri — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:24:14 +0000

@Laura @ Our House of Joyful Noise: Laura, maybe you’re a supernatural being… since “Twilight” is the time of the day that affects you most. Or maybe your body just doesn’t like the blue light? Does it make you blue? Are you sure you’re not a vamp? You know, the freaks come out at night, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLYC7ltxOrk

By: Teri

Teri — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:18:54 +0000

@Matt: Thanks Matt. I appreciate you stopping by regularly to read my meanderings.

By: Teri

Teri — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:17:41 +0000

@Vicki Satterthwaite: Hi Vicki, thanks for stopping by. Glad I'm not the only one that hates DST. Of course, this morning is a wash because I'm completely off kilter with my schedule. It's not easy to describe how uneasy it makes me feel when my body time is off. I just want to go back to bed. Hmm, not a bad idea!

By: Laura @ Our House of Joyful Noise

Laura @ Our House of Joyful Noise — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:31:51 +0000

What an excellent post, Teri. That was loaded with facts about DST that I never knew, and thoughts I never thought of. Personally, I don’t mind springing forward an hour in the spring, as much as I do turning back an hour in the fall. But at either end of the year, it’s not the complete daylight or darkness at any part of the day, that effects me as much as that weird slice of time ‘between’ the light and dark.
A very interesting read for me.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:41:39 +0000

I always love your take on things. So interesting to read. Thanks for sharing,

By: Vicki Satterthwaite

Vicki Satterthwaite — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:41:59 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. Actually, I did a bit of research on my own about this subject because I, too, wanted to find out who thought up this completely stupid thing (and I needed a cool trivia night question). DST came into being in Europe during World War 1, the theory being that the energy being saved could then be directed toward the war efforts. The US also jumped on this wagon shortly after although the law wasn’t put into effect until the 1970s. I can see the theory holding true back in the day when most women stayed home and there wasn’t long commutes to office work every morning. Trust me, I would love to take advantage of their theory that most people would just sleep the extra hour in the morning and not need lights, etc., however, my company would very much frown on me showing up work an hour late. This theory of time shifting (I prefer that term because there is NO “time savings” going on at all) has no place in modern life.

And, now thanks to baby Bush, (as if he could do any more else to piss me off) we get to “celebrate” an extra three weeks of this crap during the year. The bottom line truth is this: you only get so many hours of daylight on any given day during the year and no one (no, not even you Mr. Bush) can change that.

Whew, I’m so glad to have gotten that off my chest.