Daylight savings time has ended and it's time to "fall back." Another round of deciding whether to change the bedroom clock radio or just mentally subtract an hour. You may think that's lazy of me, and you'd be right, but there's more to it than that. There's a barricade of heavy boxes that I'd have to move to reach it.
Also, the clock radio is so old that it could very well crumble to dust if I touch it. Last, I don't remember exactly how to do it. I had to move a switch and press 2 buttons. (Or was it 2 switches and one button?) Nothing is labeled "hour" or "h" or anything logical.
Another downer with the time change is knowing darned well it is bedtime, but your favorite shows are still on and you have more to do after they're over. Right now my body is telling me I can go to bed in an hour but my eyes are telling me I have to stay up because the cat needs food before her insulin shot at 9.
Every year I sing the same lament. Springtime is a busy time and it hurts the schedule to have that hour taken away. Many's the time I've been rushed, even late, because the time change slipped my mind. Now that it's fall, I don't need the hour... don't even want it. As I already said, I'm tired and want it to be bedtime.
Changing the clock is also a reminder that we should change all the batteries in our smoke alarms. However, half of ours are equipped with those new 10-year lithium ones that won't need changing until 2020-something. The other half? I don't recall which they are, but they'll chirp their heads off when they need changing. They're good at that.
Who thought of Daylight Savings Time anyhow? I suppose back in the day more people had office jobs with 8-to-5 schedules. I guess it would give Joe Average enough time to do some active, outdoorsy stuff after work. These days, however, if you leave the office at 5 you are either a slacker or a member of Congress... possibly both.
But we're stuck with it for now, so there's no sense being a total grump about it. It is what it is. There's talk of just staying on it forever. That would be a decent solution, and I hope it happens. Still, I can't help but wonder... why didn't we just start and finish work at the right time in the first place?
I so agree! Don't forget to change the CAR clocks, too. You'll need something with a hard, round end because your finger will be sore if you just jab with your index. God forbid you pass the number. You have to keep going, sometimes 3 or 4 times to get the right number at last. At my house, it's one down, two to go, whenever I drive the other two for their weekly battery upkeep.
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