Here’s a sign of spring: yesterday I was walking the dog and saw, despite the fact that there are snowbanks everywhere and it was only 8 degrees, two men wearing shorts. There is a special breed of Calgarian who just love to don their shorts the second the snow starts melting, which is bizarre to me but who am I to judge? I wear shorts exactly never. Let your freak flag fly, fellows. Enjoy your shorts.
God yes. I hate DST with the fire of a thousand suns. I deplore waking up in darkness. I always find that just as I’m coming out of the depths of SAD for another year, that the time changes and whammo, I have to get up before the sunrise again for another month or so.
This is actually my first experience with DST while running a dayhome. And my oldest is home from school because of a teacher inservice. Yeah, “stabby” doesn’t even begin to cover it. I’m drowning over here.
Oh Nicole, you took the words right out of my mouth! Don’t forget to rant about good ole George W. Bush for changing it all up a few years back and making DST earlier. DST is annoying to begin with let alone starting it in MARCH. I’m still sitting here at 10am (which of course feels like 9am) all stupefied trying to get a grip on my day…@_@
What I would like to know is WHY CAN’T WE JUST GET RID OF IT? Surely we can just get rid of it. SO WHY DON’T WE??
Didn’t they move the time change by a few weeks? I’d like to know why. And how much money into studying the situation of when the time change should be moved. I don’t get it.
Apparently Iceland doesn’t do DST either. So Saskatchewan and Iceland are islands of rational thinking in the sea of crazy time changing fools.
Yeah, but just think what exctiement it adds to your life! We get to see what the world looks like a whole hour earlier, mix things up a bit! Those people from Saskatchewan (and Iceland) are wimps!
You kill me.
The original justification for DST was so farmers would have more daylight when working in the fields. This makes Saskatchewan’s opting out even more annoying.
We tried to get our kids to pose w/ characters at Disneyland. They flat out refused. My eldest said it had to be the worst job in the world & he was too sad for the people in the costumes to fake a smile. SEVEN! It was a magical age!!!