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Today I’m putting ’springing forward’ into the blender as the first ingedient. Doing it once a year is bad enough, but whose dumb idea was it to do it early this year? Oh yeah, Congress in all their wisdom.
I still have jet-lag from this year’s spring forward. In March for fuck’s sake. “Look at how green we are”, Congress says, “we’re springing forward early to save electricity.”
The idea being that it gets dark later so people will wait later to turn on their lights. Never mind that more people will be turning on their lights in the morning because its still dark when they get up.
If Congress really really wants to be green, how about looking seriously into alternatives to fossil fuels? Oh yeah, because then we’d have no excuse to go to war. So instead, Congress decides to annoy us all.
These are the great things being accomplished on Capitol Hill.
But despite worries that the early spring forward would be a mini-Y2K, there seemed to be few computer fuck-ups. In fact, it was a mini-Y2K, since nothing actually happened. Same as Y2K.
Planes did not fall from the sky, trains did not stop running. I suppose the worst that happened was we all slept late and missed church. Which is a normal Sunday for those who read this blog.
But springing forward goes into the blender, along with whatever is peeving the rest of you today.
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Agreed on all points, Che. I too have jet lag from this latest salvo in our government’s other war: The War, I Mean Police Action, To Annoy Thinking Americans To Death Through Obvious and Not-So-Obvious Legislation and Presidential Order, Among Other Things.
It may not trip off the tongue easily, but it is accurate. Of course, accuracy and truth are not in keeping with the current Administration, so I guess that title is out the door for now. I’ll leave that title for the future historians to discover. Given that Dubya will be known as the WORST PRESIDENT EVER, I see that title as naturally following sometime in the near future.
2009 cannot get here quickly enough.
But I digress: This time change is making me tired and cranky (ok, tirer and crankier, but still)!
I missed about half an hours’ worth of US based radio program… started ‘early’.
We’re late springing forward here! So for now we’re living apart another extra hour ;(
Blender time! Blender time i say!
They used to say “Spring Forward” and “Fall Back” to remember how to change our clocks. But with this new law they’ve passed, it is basically “Winter Forward” and “Winter Back”.
Okay, If I’m honest, it is “Winter Forward” and “Fall Back”, but we change back in November! Next thing you know, they’ll move it to Thanksgiving weekend, so you’ll have one more hour you’ll have to spend with your family.
I always remember that when the weather gets nice you are hit with having to get up one hour early in the morning.
And that it remains to be against me for half a year.
Blllllenderrrrr…