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03/28/2004 Entry: "Summertime..."
...and the living is easy?
Maybe so -- but switching to summer time isn't. There's something very disturbing about "losing" an hour. Makes me feel grouchy. Bleh!
Replies: 6 comments
Agreed - it's a nightmare!
Specially doing it on a Saturday night; people are always confused and/or late and/or tired in church on Sunday morning.
Also the one time you realise quite how many clocks there are to change: radio, video, heating, phone, microwave, car, and of course alarm clock and watch... prior to late Saturday night, there'd been a seven minute discrepancy between one end of the flat (kitchen clock) and the other (timer on the heating), but it's the sort of thing you only notice once (or twice) a year.
Hope you catch up on the lost sleep sometime!
Posted by alice @ 03/29/2004 12:08 AM GMT
I laughed when I read your comment, Richard, thinking 'I had no difficulty!' That is, until I fell asleep sending an e-mail and toppled off my swivel chair! Serves me right, doesn't it?
And now I see (from Alice's comment)that I haven't changed my central heating timer! What was that about 'Pride goes before a fall'?
Posted by Olive @ 03/29/2004 12:17 AM GMT
The central heating clock was the only one I forgot to change too. And I arrived at church i a flat panic this morning because when I put my watch forward I put it *too far* forward. Bad move!
Posted by Richard @ 03/29/2004 12:41 AM GMT
Did you do, as our Minister did? She said, 'Let us now say the Lord's Prayer in its modern form - and then said it in the traditional form, and people were heard to whisper, 'It's the clock change!'
Posted by Olive @ 03/29/2004 10:08 AM GMT
No - but one of the preachers on our Circuit turned up for a service just as it was almost finished. He'd forgotten to put his clocks forward.
Posted by Richard @ 03/29/2004 10:08 AM GMT
I'd like (nearly) nothing so much as to have this Springing forward and Falling back nonsense done away with FOREVER.
It is irritating, archaic, and unnatural.
Rick
Posted by Rick O'Donnell @ 03/31/2004 03:45 AM GMT
