Time

I remember when I was growing-up that more often then not, people would forget about daylight savings time. There were times when entire neighborhoods would forget and be an hour off for days. Well that’s not going to happen anymore.

Sunday morning my Cable box, TiVo, Cell phone, computer and coffee maker all knew it was daylight savings. This is a two-sided sword. I like this convenience of having my electronic paraphernalia set their own time… but I also like to have control of what I say the time is. For example – I like to set some clocks ahead by ten minutes. This gives me the impression that it’s later then it actually is and motivates me to “dally” less (which helps to ensure my timeliness). Time is something that should remain relative – and in “my world” all my household appliances are not required to sync with the United States Naval Observatory.

On the topic of “time” – what the hell are television-shows doing running 65 minutes? This is like some new fad that I find really annoying. This forces other shows to start at 5-minutes after the hour and completely screws up my recording efforts.

But I’ll step down – It’s been a wild week (last week) and the constant humming of my sump pump has been keeping me awake at night (rain 25 out of 31 days last month). I’ll start building the Arc in the morning, if I can find the time.

Peace.